Eric Hobsbawm in 2011.

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

Francesco Guicciardini

G. M. Trevelyan

Jacob Burckhardt

Karl Marx in 1867

Leopold von Ranke

Lord Acton

Lucien Febvre

Marc Bloch

R. H. Tawney

Sidney and Beatrice Webb, c. 1895

Simon Schama

Sir Lewis Namier

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Thomas Carlyle

South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Edward Gibbon (1737–94)

Statue of Marx and Engels in Dresden, East Germany

An illustration from Walter Scott's novel, Waverley (1814), a romantic portrayal of the Scottish Highlands.

U.S. Marine artillerymen with their 155 mm howitzer

Main reading room of the Thomas Jefferson Building

Written Will of William Shakespeare

'Am I Not A Man And A Brother?'

The Panopticon

Lord Mountbatten

Anzac troops charging a Turkish position during the disastrous Gallipoli campaign of 1915

The British Museum

Historian collecting oral testimony