Conflicts Collection

H. M.s Curacoa 1865
Conflicts with the savages of the New Hebrides, South Pacific Ocean. Boats of the Curacoa landing sailors and marines. A landing party of 180 seamen and marines, commanded by Captain Dent

Cartoons, The Great Chartist Demonstration -- No. IX, The Beginning and the End. 1848

Hausa soldiers cutting the bush with their bayonets
Agroup of Hausa soldiers (The largest ethnic group in sub-Saharan Africa) cutting down the bush with their bayonets surrounding their encampment

Congo Democratic Republic Of The North Kivu Conflict
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CONGO, Democratic Republic of the. River across a deforested area

Dragoons and Highlanders scattering the Rioters in Belfast. Accordingly, the 4th Dragoon Guards and the 78th Highlanders, accompanied by the Royal Antrim Rifles were marched to Durham Street

Kaffir Attack on an English Convoy, Kaffir Wars (there were nine wars or conflicts between 1779 and 1879)

Cartoon, A Modest Boast (Social Science)
Cartoon, A Modest Boast -- Britannia reads the report of a recent Social Science Congress, and thinks that her understanding of the subject is better than some people s

Cartoon, Hercules Tearing Theseus from the Rock to which he had grown -- a satirical comment on Sir Robert Peels intention to oust the Whig government under Lord Melbourne

Cartoon, A Great Demonstration -- satirical comment on the Chartist movement, depicting a Chartist leader backing down immediately when a magistrate tells him that his proposed demonstration will not

Cartoon, The Parliamentary Toots -- a satirical comment on Benjamin Disraelis criticism of Lord John Russells government. Mrs Blimber (co-owner of a school)

Cartoon, The Queen, Lord John Russell, Sir Robert Peel
Cartoon, The Queen, Prince Consort, Lord John Russell, and Sir Robert Peel. A comment on the resignation of Peel as Prime Minister (27 June), and his replacement by Russell (three days later). 1846

Cartoon, Rebecca and Her Daughters. A parody of an illustration which appeared in the Illustrated London News in February of the same year

Cartoon, The Rising Generation -- In Parliament. A satirical comment on conflicts within the Conservative Party over Sir Robert Peels repeal of the Corn Laws

Hundred Years War, siege of town
Siege of a town. Date: circa 1380s

Hundred Years War, storming a fort
Siege of a castle, in the Hundred Years War. Date: circa 1380s

Religious differences, Atheism and Christianity
Atheists seek to pull down the Holy Cross, but in vain, for the True Christian, encouraged by divine beings, holds it up while his good lady instructs the young in the True Way Date: circa 1790s

The Kings Liverpool Regiment War Memorial, Liverpool, relating to conflicts in Afghanistan (1878-1880), Burma (1885-1887) and South Africa (1899-1902). Date: circa 1905

Queen Victoria awarding medals in Hyde Park, London, to those who had fought in the Indian Mutiny, the Crimean War and other conflicts. Date: 1857

illustration alluding to the conflicts for the colonial division of Africa between the European powers from the 1880s to the beginning of the First World War

South African gas alarm post trench sentry, 1917
Soldier ready to ring the bell to give warning to a gas attack. In the Western Front they took gas attacks as " all in the days work"

CONGO, Democratic Republic of the. Kinshasa. Congo river across the capital

REID, Alec (1932). Irish priest mediator in conflicts of terrorism. Portrait of 2007. SPAIN. CATALONIA. BARCELONA. Barcelona

A Depth Charge Exploding
A ship under attack during the final conflicts of the sea war of the First World War - a depth charge explodes in the wake of a swiftly moving Royal Navy vessel

Hs Wall-Cockmount Hill
A view of Hadrians Wall on Cockmount Hill. Archaeological evidence suggests that the wall rarely saw large scale military conflicts, and acted more as a control barrier

What the War Cost
The Great War was far more expensive than any previous European conflicts, as this picture makes clear

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