Topics covered: Plague in Athens
The Greeks march to the sea
The deification of the Emperor Septimius Severus
Dinner with Attila the Hun
The murder of Thomas Becket
Richard I massacres prisoners after taking Acre
Spanish atrocities in the West Indies
The performing ass, Cairo
Human sacrifice among the Aztecs
The progess of the English Reformation
With the Spaniards in Paraguay
The execution of Archbishop Cranmer
Prisoners of the Inquisition
The Sack of Antwerp by a Spanish Army
The arrest of the Catholic Priest Edmund Campion and his associates
Natural childbirth in India
A London merchant in Cairo
The execution of Mary Queen of Scots
The last fight of the revenge
Trapper in the Arctic Ice
A Jesuit is tortured in the Tower
A private audience with Elizabeth I
English merchants in Java
The effects of Elizabethan Policy in Ireland
The magnificence of the great mogul
The great mogul: his cruelty
The murder of the Duke of Buckingham
Oliver Cromwell writes to his brother-in-law after the Battle of Marston Moor
George Fox visits Lichfield
Religious observances in Dunkirk
The English love of fighting
Conditions of life aboard the French galleys
The Battle of Schellenberg
Pantomimes and gladiators
The Princess of Wales is delivered of a daughter
John Wesley preaches in hull
The Black Hole of Calcutta
The King of Ethiopia expresses displeasure
Dr. Johnson's playfulness
Christmas Day at New College, Oxford
Midshipman Gardner (aged 12) in action against the French
The first manned flight in England
Louis XVI and the French royal family, prisoners at the Tuileries
Chateaubriand lands in the New World
Marie-Antoinette at the opera
The execution of Louis XVI
The Revolutionary Tribunal
Beggars, a leech gatherer, and daffodils: the Wordsworths at Grasmere
Childsplay in the Lake District
Trafalgar: Nelson sends the signal "England expects that every man this day will do his duty"
Seeing the Elgin marbles for the first time
After the Battle of Rolica
The British retreat to Corunna
Taken prisoner at Corunna
Execution by impalement: Latakia
Waterloo, 18 June 1815: dawn with the 7th Hussars
Waterloo: charge of the Scots Greys and 92nd Highlanders
Waterloo: The Royal Horse Artillery Repulse Enemy Cavalry
Waterloo: Napoleon's last throw
Charge of the Imperial Guard
Factory conditions / Elizabeth Bentley
Cremation of the poet Shelley, near Leghorn
The opening of the Liverpool to Manchester Railway
Birds in the Galapagos Archipelago
The coronation of Queen Victoria
Death by guillotine: Rome
Flaubert and the dancing girls
Inside the Crystal Palace
The Farringdon Watercress Market
Louis Napoleon's troops subdue Paris
Victoria and Albert in the Highlands
The Japanese and introduced to Western technology
The Battle of Balaclava and the Charge of the Light Brigade
Single combat in the Caucasus
Explosion on board Brunel's Great Eastern Steamship
The Times Correspondent helps Garibaldi liberate Palermo
The murder of Abraham Lincoln
The suppresion of the Paris Commune
The Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria
An immigrant crosses America
A seaside holiday, Norfolk Coast
Queen Victoria's last journey
The first radio signal across the Atlantic
A roundabout in Montmartre
The San Francisco Earthquake
Suffragette Lady Constance Lytton
The Siege of Sidney Street
The lemon gardens under cover for winter
George Bernard Shaw at his mother's funeral
The murder of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo
The German Army marches through Brussels
Tsar Nicholas II and the Russian Imperial Family shot in Ekaterinburg
Execution of Henri D. "Bluebeard" Landru
Nazi extermination of the Jews