EditorialPlan of a slave ship. The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishm. Longman & Co.: London, 1808. Plan of the interior of a slave ship. Image taken from The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-T...
EditorialPlan of a slave ship. The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament. London : Longman & Co., 1808. Source: 522.f.23 between pages 112 -113.
EditorialThomas Clarkson. [The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplish. J. W. Parker: London, 1839. Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846). English antislavery campaigner. Portrait.After the passing of the British antislavery laws (1807), he wrote 'History of the ab...
EditorialThe Adoration of the Shepherds with Saint Catherine of Alexandria, 1599, Oil on canvas, 121 3/8 x 76 1/4 in. (308.3 x 193.7 cm), Paintings, Cigoli (Ludovico Cardi) (Italian, Castello di Cigoli 1559?1613 Rome), Cigoli, a painter of considerable intellec...
EditorialPanel from a Rectangular Box, 10th?early 11th century, Made in Spain, probably Cordoba, Ivory; carved, inlaid with stone with traces of pigment, H. 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm), Ivories and Bone, This panel, carved from a single piece of ivory in a twice-repeat...
Editorial? ??? ?????? ?, Four anecdotes from the life of Wang Xizhi, Yuan dynasty (1271?1368), 1310s, China, Handscroll; ink on paper, Image: 9 5/8 x 46 1/16 in. (24.4 x 117 cm), Calligraphy, Zhao Mengfu (Chinese, 1254?1322), The emperor Yuan Renzong (r. 1312?2...
EditorialCAPTAIN (AFTERWARDS SIR PHILIP) BROKE. (From a Portrait published in 1815.) His most notable accomplishment was his victory while commanding HMS Shannon, over the USS Chesapeake on 1 June 1813, off Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, durin...
EditorialJuan de la Cierva y Codorn?u, 1st Count of De La Cierva (1895-1936) was a Spanish civil engineer, pilot and aeronautical engineer. His most famous accomplishment was the invention in 1920 of the Autogiro,[1] a single-rotor type of aircraft that came to...
EditorialJuan de la Cierva y Codorn?u, 1st Count of De La Cierva (1895-1936) was a Spanish civil engineer, pilot and aeronautical engineer. His most famous accomplishment was the invention in 1920 of the Autogiro,[1] a single-rotor type of aircraft that came to...