PFH1184911: Indonesia: Carte particulière des Isles Moluques. Map of the Molucca Islands by Jacques Nicolas Bellin, Paris, 1760 / Bridgeman Images

FLP1273698: Girard Trust Company (b/w photo), American Photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1188823: Japan: Standing Samurai. Torii Kiyomasu (active c.1704-1718) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1189025: Japan: Filipino and Japanese soldiers celebrate the Japanese invasion of the Philippines. Japanese Militarist propaganda poster, 1941 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1189187: Japan: Count Kaneko Kentaro (1853-1942), statesman and diplomat in Meiji Era Japan / Bridgeman Images

PFH1189243: USA / China: Warren Delano Jr. (1809-1898), China Trader in tea, silk and opium, grandfather of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945). From a picture taken in Hong Kong, January 1862 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1185170: Sweden: The Swedish explorer of Central Asia, Sven Hedin (1865-1952), 1897 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1185313: China: The bodies of dead Chinese soldiers at the Dagu or Taku Forts, 1860 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1185349: China: 'A Tea Warehouse', Canton (Guangzhou). Studio of Tingqua (Guan Lianchang), c. 1830-1840 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1189327: India: Bahadur Shah II enthroned with Mirza Fakhruddin. Opaque watercolour, ink, and gold on paper by Gulam Ali Khan (fl. 1817-1855), c. 1837-1838 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1189507: Japan: A modern granite stone marker by the Nakasendo near Takamiya-juku bearing the legend 'Central Mountain Road', 2008 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1189612: Russia: 'War Loans - All for Victory'. Russian World War I propaganda poster, 1916 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1189617: Russia: A young boy portrayed as a soldier boiling a kettle in the snow. Russian World War I propaganda poster / Bridgeman Images

PFH1189644: Russia / Canada: A machine gun officer of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Siberia. Chalk and Gouache, Louis Keene, 1919 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1189656: Russia: 'Military War Loans'. Russian World War I propaganda poster, Yefim Mikhaylovich Cheptsov, 1916 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1189688: Russia: Russian artillery, Eastern Front, World War I, c. 1915 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1189731: Russia: 'By a Powerful Blow of Labour we will Destroy the Shackles of Devastation'. Revolutionary poster, c. 1922 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1189747: China / Germany / Japan: 'The Japanese Army occupied Tsingtao'. Anglo-Japanese capture of the German-occupied Port of Tsingtao (Qingdao) in 1914 during World War I. Tokyo: Shobido & Co., 1915 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1185431: India / China: The 'Examining Hall' in a Patna opium factory with hundreds of opium balls prepared for use in the China trade. Lithograph, W. S. Sherwell, c. 1850 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1185637: UK / China: James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811-1863). As British High Commissioner in China during the Second Opium War in 1860 he infamously ordered the destruction of the Old Summer Palace (Yuan Ming Yuan) in Beijing (1860) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1190063: Vietnam: Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu (1924-2011), First Lady of the Republic of Vietnam, 1955-1963, making a point at a press conference, Republic of Vietnam Embassy, Paris, March 10, 1963 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1190144: China: A Chinese Song Dynasty traction trebuchet, taken from an illustration in the Wujing Zongyao, 1044 CE / Bridgeman Images

PFH1190150: China: A Chinese Song Dynasty mobile observation platform (o / Bridgeman Images

PFH1190164: USA: 'Browning - Uncle Sam's Official Machine Gun', c. 1918'. First World War propaganda poster, c. 1918 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1190179: UK: 'For Humanity's Sake - Save a Life'. First World War propaganda poster, c. 1917 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1185819: Burma / Myanmar: Label from a 'Double Uoglobe' Heroin brick, the most ubiquitous and best known illicit brand in the Golden Triangle region where Burma, Thailand and Laos meet / Bridgeman Images

PFH1185970: China: Kunyu Quantu or 'A Map of the Whole World', Western Hemisphere, Beijing, 1674 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1186188: Burma / Myanmar: A Brahmin priest with conch shell and sacred thread, Mandalay Court, Konbaung Dynasty, c. 1853-1885 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1190394: Vietnam: Nguyễn Cao Kỳ (Nguyen Cao Ky, 1930-2011), 1965. Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam, 1965-1967, Vice-President of the Republic of Vietnam, 1967-1971 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1190556: Japan: Emperor Ojin, the 15th emperor of Japan (notionally reigned 270-310 CE), as a seated Hachiman, Japanese God of War. Hachiman-dono, Todai-ji, Nara. Coloured hinoki wood, 1201 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1186311: Japan: A traditional bucket-shaped rice measure or itto masu / Bridgeman Images

PFH1186413: Iran / Persia: Isma'il, the Persian Ambassador of Tahmasp, Shah of Persia, at the court of Sultan Suleiman I, 10th Ottoman Emperor (r.1520-1566). Engraving by Melchior Lorck (1526-1583), Istanbul, c.1559 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1186507: Japan: Ryo«tei Tanehiko, Japanese comic writer of the Edo period (1783-1842) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1186698: Indonesia: Wayang Kulit ('shadow puppet') figure from the ancient Hindu epic, Ramayana / Bridgeman Images

PFH1186708: Indonesia: Wayang Kulit ('shadow puppet') figure from the ancient Hindu epic, Ramayana / Bridgeman Images

PFH1186737: Indonesia: Figure of Anggada, wayang kulit ('shadow puppet') character from the ancient Hindu epic, Ramayana / Bridgeman Images