ELD4875366: In 1214, the barons of England united in the chapel of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds to promise to compel King John without Land (1166-1216) to sign the Charter of Liberties at the origin of the Magna Carta (The oath of the English Barons to restore the liberties of the land, taken at the council called by Archbishop Stephen Langton at the abbey at Bury-St-Edmunds, 4 November 1214) Illustration from “” A Chronicle-of-England”” by James Doyle, 1864 Private collection / Bridgeman Images
ETE4842061: Second World War (1939-1945): an African American Women's Army Corps battalion is in charge of the entire Postal Service of the European Theater of Operations (ETO). Two soldiers are sorting mail at the temporary battalion headquarters. Photograph taken on an American base in Great Britain, February 1945. / Bridgeman Images
ELD4842483: Transformations of Paris under the Second Empire, Paris Haussmannien: vue de la Place Malesherbes (present place du General Catroux), created in 1862 in Paris (Haussmann's renovation of Paris, view of the Malesherbes square, 17th district of Paris) Engraving of “Les stages d'un touriste en France: Paris, promenades dans les 20 arrondissements” by Alexis Martin, 1890 Private collection / Bridgeman Images