Podcast

EI Portraits

Our writers profile individuals, some well-known, some overlooked, and explore how they shaped the world as we know it. Read by Sebastian Brown.

Wildlife photographer Carl Ethan Akeley photographed in 1926. Credit: Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery / Public Domain
1890 engraving of Philippa Fawcett, the first female Senior Wrangler.
An illustration of Joseph Galloway by Thomas Emmett, 1885. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Akbar the Great hunting. Mughal Scool, 1590. British Museum. Artist Unknown.
1947, A picture of Basil Henry Liddell Hart
De László's portrait of Anna de Noailles.
A typical late Victorian scene.
Tsiang Tingfu raises his arm to veto a proposal introduced by the Soviet Union to the UN.
From left to right: Dorothy McDonald (wife of John, née Eisner), Leon Trotsky and John McDonald in Coyoacan, Mexico, in the 1930s. McDonald was recruited to help defend Trotsky from charges made at Stalin's show trials. Credit: General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University