Illustrations of history

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This magazine is for sharing artwork of historical events, places, personages, etc. Scale models and the like also welcome!

Generally speaking, actual photos of a historical item should go to [email protected]

Photos of ruins should go to [email protected]

Photos of the past should go to [email protected]

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Irish Soldiers by Albrecht Druer 1521 (quokk.au)
submitted 19 hours ago by [email protected] to c/historyillustrations
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Spanish Galleon in the Americas being loaded with cargo (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 day ago by PugJesus to c/historyillustrations
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Illustration of the British massacring Indian civilians at Amritsar (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 day ago by PugJesus to c/historyillustrations
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Horseman of the medieval Delhi Sultanate (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 days ago by PugJesus to c/historyillustrations
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Arrival of a Republican Roman general in Spain (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by PugJesus to c/historyillustrations
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Prehistoric Chinese farming village (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 days ago by PugJesus to c/historyillustrations
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American troops storming British positions at the Battle of Yorktown, 1781 (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 days ago by PugJesus to c/historyillustrations
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Greek hoplites at the dockside (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by PugJesus to c/historyillustrations
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Another Roman legionary diagram (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by PugJesus to c/historyillustrations
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Roman Emperor Septimius Severus at the Battle of Lugdunum, 197 AD (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by PugJesus to c/historyillustrations
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Aragonese knight and Andalusian noble playing chess in Medieval Spain (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by PugJesus to c/historyillustrations
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Illustration of a Bronze Age warrior of the Urnfield Culture from Central Europe (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by PugJesus to c/historyillustrations
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An Imperial Roman cohort attacked in Britain (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by PugJesus to c/historyillustrations
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Historical history illustration! Greek manuscript showing a swordfish, narwhal, hammerhead shark and whale, 16th century AD (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by PugJesus to c/historyillustrations
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https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2017/11/page/2/

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15th century AD European ballista mounted on a wheeled carriage, with an incendiary round, barbed to get 'stuck' in flammable materials (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by PugJesus to c/historyillustrations
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Depiction of a ~11th century AD Chinese multishot-ballista (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by PugJesus to c/historyillustrations
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Crossbowmen loading from a sitting position at the Battle of Jaffa, Third Crusade, 1192 AD (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by PugJesus to c/historyillustrations
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Irish Curragh boat, made of hides stretched over a wooden frame (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by PugJesus to c/historyillustrations
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Unfortunately, I couldn't find a reasonably sized picture of the labeled version

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Model of an Ancient Egyptian farmer with a wooden ard plough (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by PugJesus to c/historyillustrations
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The Globe Theater (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by Zombiepirate to c/historyillustrations
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Wealthy Minoans in ancient Crete (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by PugJesus to c/historyillustrations
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City street in Paris, France, circa 1910 (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by PugJesus to c/historyillustrations
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Indian war elephants assaulting Alexander the Great's Macedonian pikemen, Battle of the Hydaspes (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by PugJesus to c/historyillustrations
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Visual comparison of Japanese and European sword positions (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by PugJesus to c/historyillustrations
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Battle of Shrewsbury, England, 1403 AD (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by PugJesus to c/historyillustrations
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