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

15 August 1461: The Empire of Trebizond surrenders to forces of Sultan Mehmed II, the last remnant of the Byzantine Empire to fall; Emperor David is exiled and later murdered

US soldiers in Paris celebrating the announcement of Japan's surrender, 14-15 August, 1945

🇸🇪 Girls picking flowers, Leksand, Sweden, c. 1910s-1920s

German soldiers playing musical instruments, WWI, 1914

August 1480: After a 15 day siege of the Italian city of Otranto, invading Ottoman forces breach the walls and take the city. A total of 12,000 inhabitants are killed and 5,000 enslaved. This number includes 800+ Christians beheaded for refusing to convert to Islam after the city fell.

US soldiers repair a field telephone line during a German gas attack, WWI, 1918

Girls from Yugoslavia, c. 1920s

🇫🇷 A view of Metz, France, c. 1900

An Adeni Jewish man from Yemen, 1870s

A Christian procession in Jerusalem, c. 1900

Russian ballerina Tamara Karsavina, c. 1910

Georgian army under King David the Builder wins a decisive victory over the renowned Seljuk commander Ilghazi at the Battle of Didgori, 12 August 1121

Wounded German soldiers taken as POWs by American troops during Operation Dragoon, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. August 1944. (colourised)

🇲🇪 Nicholas I of Montenegro, 1909

A Romanian woman in traditional dress, c. 1900

August 612 BC: The Assyrian capital city of Nineveh falls to the Babylonians and the forces of Medes, leading to the destruction of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, and the death of King Sinsharishkun (Painting by John Martin, 1829)

In the battle of Petrovaradin, the Habsburgs under Eugene of Savoy defeat the Ottomans in a decisive victory, 5 August 1716

Two members of the US Marine Corps help a wounded comrade during the Korean War, c. 1950s (colourised)

Japanese soldiers escorting Chinese forced-labour farm workers, 1937

A family from Galway, Ireland, 1913 (original autochrome colour photo)

A group of Boer fighters during the Boer war, South Africa, c. 1900

Children playing on the banks of the Thames, London, 1950s

A German soldier, WWI (colourised)

Winnie the Welder, 1943. As men went away to war, many woman had to step up and fill their positions.

🇮🇱 Soldiers in the Israeli army read the Torah during commemorations of the Jewish fast day of Tisha B'av, Israel, August 1948

A lady in the fashion of the 1870s

🇮🇹 Italian soldiers on the Italian front, WWI, 1915-1918

A family on the porch of their log cabin in the Great Smokey Mountains, North Carolina, 1920s

🇬🇧 Edwardian era tea party, England, 1905

🇵🇱 A Polish resistance fighter during the Warsaw uprising against German occupation, c. August-September 1944 (Colourised)

Eating around a campsite out west, 1920s

🇬🇧 The streets of London, 1915

German prisoners and British wounded crossing a duck board bridge over the Yser Canal near Boesinghe during the Battle of Passchendaele, 31 July 1917.

Morning on the battlefield of Passchendaele, WWI, 1917

On 31 July 1917, the battle of Passchendaele (Third battle of Ypres) began and would go on to cause approximately 500,000 casualties

A Vietnamese woman, 1915. Original colour photo.

🇺🇸 Men relaxing on the porch of a gas station and general store in rural North Carolina, 1939

Bulgarian women in folk dress, c. 1890s-1920s

Japanese children playing soldier, 1930s

A German machine gun post during the Battle of the Somme, 1916

🇫🇷 Racers passing through Verdun in the 1922 Tour de France

🇨🇭 Meiringen, Switzerland, c. 1890s

Two children in Central Park, New York, 1870s

🇬🇧 A lady on a street in Devon, England, 1904