🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Children on a street in Shaftesbury, Dorset, England, c. 1900

US soldier Anthony Johnson wearing his Croix de Guerre earned during WWI. When his outpost came under attack by a German raiding party, he repelled them using grenades, the butt of his rifle, a bolo knife and his bare fists, suffering 21 wounds in the process. For this he earned the nickname "Black Death".

Entrance to the Berlin Untergrund Bahn, Germany, 1913 (colourised)

🇮🇹 Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, Italy, 1944

The streets and castle tower of Konigsberg, East Prussia, c. 1890s (now Kaliningrad, Russia)

13th century illustration of black and white slaves taken by the Islamic occupiers of Al-Andalus (Spain)

🇬🇧 Albert Ball, fighter pilot credited with 44 aerial victories. At the time he was shot down in 1917, he was Britain's top WWI ace.

A Navajo woman outside her hogan, 1910s-1920s, original autochrome colour photo

🇸🇪 Midsummer celebration in Sweden, June 1952

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15th century illustration of the Battle of Laupen fought between Swiss forces and an army of the Dukes of Savoy, 21 June 1339

Two Jewish girls on a beach in Tunis, Tunisia, c. 1890s

Cottages in Ireland, c. 1910s (original autochrome colour photo)

Arrival of Siamese King Mongkut at the Buddhist temple of Wat Pho, 1865

Sara Forbes Bonetta, ward and goddaughter of Queen Victoria, 1862. She was a princess of the Egbado clan of the Yoruba people in West Africa, who was orphaned during a war with the nearby Kingdom of Dahomey as a child, and was later enslaved by King Ghezo of Dahomey. She was given as a "gift" to Captain Frederick E. Forbes of the British Royal Navy and later became a goddaughter of Queen Victoria.

A captured German Taube monoplane, on display in the courtyard of Les Invalides in Paris, in 1915. The Taube was a pre-World War I aircraft, only briefly used on the front lines, replaced later by newer designs.

Allied troops participate in a church service under the shade of trees in France following the Normandy invasion, June 1944

Nazi troops await the order to pull down a bust of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss after the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in 1938.