PFH1170524: China: Qing Emperor Xianfeng (1831 - 1861), his temple name was Wenzong / Bridgeman Images

PFH1170266: Burma/ Myanmar: The ruins of Bagan, Upper Burma, c.1920s. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171609: China / Burma / India: 'The Jungle Book', a military training manual for Allied forces fighting in the CBI Theatre, 1943. The title is a play on Rudyard Kipling's 'Jungle Book' (1894). The subject is jungle warfare. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172989: Thailand: Thawal Thamrong Navaswadhi (1901-1988), Prime Minister of Thailand, 1946-1947 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1173084: Sudan: A door keeper at the house of the former Mahdi, Omdurman, 1936 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1174169: Vietnam / France: Pierre Poivre (1719-1786) at Tourane (Da Nang) in 1749, painting by Charles Fouqeray / Bridgeman Images

PFH1173312: France / Vietnam: Bust of Henri Laurent Riviere, French naval officer and imperialist (1827-1883) at Montmartre / Bridgeman Images

PFH1173089: Sudan / South Sudan: A Shilluk or Chollo woman, c.1900 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1174909: Korea: Official portrait of Gang Se-hwang, Joseon Dynasty painter and calligrapher, painted by Yi Myong-gi,1783 CE / Bridgeman Images

PFH1174510: China / Tibet: A gilded Dakini, dancing, 18th entury / Bridgeman Images

PFH1173231: Thailand: Admiral Krom Luang Chumphon Khet Udomsak (1880-1923), father of the Royal Thai Navy / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172804: Burma / Myanmar: King Thibaw (right), Queen Supayalat (centre) and her sister Princess Supayaji (left), in the royal palace at Mandalay c.1885 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172844: Indonesia: Javanese classical dancer (c.1925) by Tyra Kleen (1874-1951) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1174124: Japan: A Japanese soldier, 1844 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172504: Iran: 'A Persian lady', sketch and watercolour by Justin Perkins, Urmia (1839) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1170580: Japan: Portrait of Lady Saigo-no-Tsubone (1552-1589) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1174162: India: The commander of Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar's palace guard, 1844 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171789: Japan: A message from the Japan Monopoly Corporation (1954) aimed at Allied forces and other Westerners - predomionantly English-speaking Americans - in Japan / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171630: China: A woman dancing. Detail of a mural in the tomb of Zhang Kuangzheng, Xuanhua, Hebei, Liao Dynasty (1093-1117). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171681: China: A doorkeeper in a mural in the tomb of Zhang Shiqing, Xuanhua, Hebei, Liao Dynasty (1093-1117). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171427: Ethiopia: The British Expedition to Abyssinia. Artllery and elephants on the march / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172682: India: An Indian representation of Rahu, Snake Demon and causer of solar and lunar eclipses / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172782: Bangladesh: Raja Tridiv Roy, hereditary king of the Chakma people, giving a speech in the Chittagong Hill Tracts c.1947 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172634: Burma / Myanmar: Studio portrait of a young Burman woman with a parasol, probably Rangoon / Yangon, 1895 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1174663: Turkey / Ottoman Empire: Dance of the Dervishes, Ottoman Greece or Turkey, Edward Dodwell, 1821 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171363: Japan: Lost Horyuji Temple fresco from a pre-1949 photograph: No.5 wall, Bodhisattva, detail. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1170756: Japan: Nagoya attractions in 1900, the Asahi Red Light District. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172168: Thailand: 'A marriage in the Chinese Baba fashion', Phuket, c.1940 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171632: China: A door guardian. Mural in the tomb of Zhang Kuangzheng, Xuanhua, Hebei, Liao Dynasty (1093-1117). / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172771: Iran: Page from an illuminated 1604 copy of Tuhfat al-Iraqayn by Afzal al-Din Shirvani Khaqani (1126-1198) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1170073: Japan: Count Kuroda Kiyotaka (1840-1900), Prime Minister of Japan from (1888-1889) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1173560: China: Li Hongzhang (Lu Hung-chang), Marquis Suyi of the Qing Empire, 1896 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172979: Thailand: Phraya Manopakorn Nititada (1884-1948), Prime Minister of Thailand 1932-1933 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171421: Ethiopia: The British Expedition to Abyssinia. The cross of Emperor Tewodros II of Ethiopia (Magazine Pittoresque, 1871) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172861: Indonesia: Balinese legong dancer (1928) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1173772: Vietnam: A well-to-do Vietnamese woman of Saigon wearing ao ngu than gown, together with her servant, 1872 / Bridgeman Images