A street in Tripoli, Libya, 1906

French stretcher bearers loading a wounded soldier into an American ambulance, Westouter, West Flanders, May 1918 (colourised)

Billy Graham launching the Washington Crusade, 1952

A young Polish girl lays flowers on the grave of a family member who was killed during the Warsaw Uprising, 1944 (colourised)

US soldiers in Korea during the Korean War, 1950s

2 June 455: King Gaiseric and the Vandals sack Rome, claiming a broken betrothal between his son and the Roman emperor’s daughter was a violation of their peace treaty. Upon the arrival of the Vandal army at the gates, Pope Leo I requested that Genseric not destroy the ancient city nor murder its inhabitants. Genseric agreed and the gates of Rome were opened.
While Genseric kept his promise not to burn the city and slaughter its inhabitants, the Vandals did sack the city for two weeks. (Painting by Karl Briullov)

Serbian children in Vranić playing soldier, WWI

June 1941: An Iraqi mob murders at least 180 Jews in Baghdad (and injures another 1,000) in what was later known as the "Farhud" pogrom. Mass rape and looting of Jewish property took place and 900 Jewish homes were destroyed.

🇬🇧 On the beach at Lulworth Cove, UK, 1913. Original colour photograph.

Nazi Storm Troopers marching next to the Arsenal in front of the Berlin Cathedral, ca. 1935.

Women doing farm work while many of the men were away at war, Britain, 1940s.

🇳🇴 Young Norwegian women in folk dress, c. 1880s-1910s

🇬🇧 Children in London filing out of their school during a practice gas test, June 1941.