🇬🇧 Crowds dancing in Oxford Circus in London in celebration of V-J Day, UK, August 1945

A girl churning butter, North Carolina, 1930s.

An Irish couple, c. 1890s-1910s

A ballet teacher instructing her pupils in ballet positions during a lesson in one of the studios at the Scottish Ballet School at Grosvenor Crescent, Edinburgh in 1955.

Fishermen from Corfu, Greece, c. 1900-1910s

American POWs after being liberated from a Japanese prison camp, 1945, WWII

🇳🇴 People outside the old Borgund stave church in Norway, c. 1900

🇳🇱 Children on a village street in the Netherlands, c. 1900

Seminole Indians, Florida, 1915

🇮🇹 Women fetching water, Taormina, Sicily, c. 1880s-1910s

🇬🇧 A wounded British RAF Airman poses with his damaged spitfire after the Dieppe Raid. August 19th, 1942 (colourised)

🇫🇷 Simone Segouin, an 18 year old French Resistance fighter, during the liberation of Paris, August, 1944.

US soldiers on a riverbank in Korea during the Korean War, c. 1953

Armin Wegner, a German soldier and medic who was stationed in the Ottoman Empire during WWI. He was a key witness to the Armenian genocide and the photographs he took documenting the plight of the Armenians form the core majority of the photographic evidence we have today of the genocide. Later during WWII, he denounced the persecution of Jews, and was subsequently arrested, tortured by the Gestapo and imprisoned. Upon his release he fled to Italy.

🇸🇪 A Swedish farm, c. 1900

Johannes Brahms in 1853. Born in Hamburg, Germany, Brahms was a well known composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period.
🎶 Click here to listen to his famous Hungarian Dance No. 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X9LvC9WkkQ&list=RD3X9LvC9WkkQ&start_radio=1

A Polish Resistance fighter on the watch during the Warsaw Uprising against German occupation c. August-October 1944 (colourised)

A view of the metro and Heroes' Square, Budapest, Hungary, 1896

🇬🇧 Children in line for ice cream, UK, 1950s 🍦

Going for a swim in the lake, 1915