1. English Literature in Illustrations

2. Middle Ages Canterbury pilgrim badge

3. Martyrdom of Thomas Becket. Middle Ages

4. Woodcut of the Knight from The Canterbury Tales. c. 1490. Middle Ages

5. 16th Century "Temptation of St. Anthony" from Jacques Callot's Miroir De Son Temps.

6. Edward VI and the Pope: An Allegory of the Reformation (circa 1568–71) 16th Century

7. Mary, Queen of Scots, the object of England's "Rough Wooing." 16th Century

8. Early 17th Century Creation of Adam. Michelangelo (1475–1564)

9. King's and Queen's costumes. Inigo Jones. Early 17th Century

10. Sketches of Irish costumes by Lucas de Heere Early 17th Century

11. Restoration and the 18th Century London ladies shopping for fabric

12. Examining a slave Restoration and the 18th Century

13. A Philosopher Giving That Lecture on the Orrery, in Which a Lamp Is Put in Place of the Sun (1766). Joseph Wright Restoration and the 18th Century

14. Romantic Period From p. 4 of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake

15. Percy Bysshe Shelley (ca. 1829) Romantic Period

16. Illustration from Lalla Rookh, 1817. Romantic Period

17. Victorian Age Hard Times (1885). Hubert von Herkomer.

18. The first women students to be admitted to the University of Cambridge, photographed at Hitchin, 1869 Victorian Age

19. Queen Victoria and her servant Abdul Karim, 1893. Victorian Age

20. 20th Century Trains piled with refugees in Amritsar, India (1947)

21. Smoke billows over a landscape under fire from a United States Air Force B-25 bomber (ca. 1940). 20th Century

22. William Butler Yeats (ca. 1930). Ireland 20th Century