This paper adopts an interdisciplinary approach of Imagology to investigate the hetero-images of England and the English in Taiwan’s senior high school history textbooks from 1952 to 1999, a time when the textbooks in question were edited by a small number of professors and senior high school teachers commissioned by the government. Due to the complicated commercial and diplomatic relationship between Qing China and England from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century and the subsequent military cooperation between the KMT and the British government in two World Wars, the editors of the history textbooks constructed many distinctive images of the objects to meet the educational goals and reflect the political considerations of the KMT government. Thus, the hetero-images of England and the English in the history textbooks function as different mirrors which reflect not only the KMT government’s attitude towards England and the English in different eras, but also the auto-images of Taiwan and the Taiwanese from the 1950s to the 1990s.