PFH1183758: France: Jules Francois Camille Ferry (1832 - 1893) Prime Minister of France (23 September 1880 - 14 November 1881), arch advocate of French colonialism in Vietnam / Bridgeman Images

PFH1183770: United Kingdom: Rowland George Allanson Allanson-Winn, 5th Baron Headley (19 January 1855 - 22 June 1935), also known as Shaikh Rahmatullah al-Farooq / Bridgeman Images

PFH1183813: Thailand: General Tuan Shi-wen, commander of the KMT (Kuomintang) 5th Army at Doi Mae Salong (Santikhiri), Chiang Rai Province, northern Thailand / Bridgeman Images

PFH1179574: Japan: Detail of a byobu screen painting of namban (or nanban) 'Southern Barbarians' by Kano Naizen (1570-1616) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1179640: USA: General Curtis Emerson LeMay (November 15, 1906 - October 1, 1990) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1179908: China: Vairocana Buddha, fresco in Cave 10, Yulin Caves, Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1184242: Tanzania / Zanzibar: Studio portrait of an Omani woman, c. 1890s / Bridgeman Images

PFH1180297: Yemen: The Sultan Al Kathiri Palace, Seiyun, Hadramawt, in 1930 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1184449: India: Man Singh Ji Saheb (Man Singh I), Raja of Amber, Rajasthan (r.1590-1614) / Bridgeman Images

IL1219106: Louis XVI distributing gifts to the poor before the French Revolution (litho), English School, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1180400: Russia: 'Cosaque de Crimea' - Crimean Cossack. Chez Jean, Paris, 1814 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1180535: Palestine: Three Palestinian women grinding corn, Ramallah, c. 1900 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1180577: Palestine: Two young Palestinian women wearing veils, c. 1920 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1184715: Oman: Using bullock power to irrigate the fields, Ibri, December 1955 / Bridgeman Images

RMM1220167: Decimalisation counter stand, issued by the British Bankers' Association, c.1969 (cardboard), English School, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1180974: Middle East: A map of Kurdistan - 'Curdistan Diarbeck' - published by Alain Manneson Mallet, 1682 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1181083: Japan: Man lighting a charcoal brazier in preparation for making tea. Signed Ike No Taiga (1723-1776) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1181343: France: Joseph Joubert (1754-1824), French moralist, essayist and philosopher / Bridgeman Images

PFH1181362: Germany: Paying Homage to the Lamb. From the Bamberg Apocalypse, 1000-1200 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1181379: Spain: The Beast emerges from The Abyss. From the Beatus of Rioja or Urgell Beatus, c. 975 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1185599: Thailand: Buddha and chedi in a temple in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand / Bridgeman Images

PFH1185821: Vietnam: A Tonkinese opium smoker cleaning his pipe, Hanoi, French Indochina, c. 1910 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1186186: Burma / Myanmar: Court officials, Mandalay Court, Konbaung Dynasty, c. 1853-1885 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1182479: Cambodia: King Norodom Sihanouk in 1953, one year before Cambodian independence from French Indochina and France / Bridgeman Images

PFH1182555: China / Tibet: Traditional anatomical chart illustrating the face of impermanence / Bridgeman Images

PFH1182705: Japan: Xiang Chong (Nyubinata Koju), one of the '108 Heroes of the Water Margin'. Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1863), 1827-1830 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1186693: Indonesia: Wayang Kulit ('shadow puppet') figure from the ancient Hindu epic, Ramayana / Bridgeman Images

PFH1186709: Indonesia: Wayang Kulit ('shadow puppet') figure from the ancient Hindu epic, Ramayana / Bridgeman Images

PFH1186721: Indonesia: Figure of Bhima, wayang wulit ('shadow puppet') character from the ancient Hindu epic, Ramayana / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171785: Japan: Advertising poster for the South Kyoto Tobacco Sellers' Union, 1937 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1178747: Malaysia / Singapore: A Peranakan bride and groom, early-mid 20th century, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1178778: Korea: Kim Jong-suk (December 24, 1917 – September 22, 1949) was a Korean independence activist and Communist politician. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1178794: Korea: Kim Jong Il, the future supreme leader of North Korea (the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, DPRK) in 1946, probably in the Russian Far East / Bridgeman Images

PFH1178893: Madagascar: Queen Ranavalona III (r. 1883-1897) photographed in exile at Algiers by J. Geiser, c. 1905 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171930: Korea: North Korean (DPRK) propaganda poster - 'Tear up the American Flag'. / Bridgeman Images

PFH1171943: Korea: North Korean (DPRK) propaganda poster glorifying the North Korean armed forces / Bridgeman Images