London during Christmas time, 1950s

Christmas in the UK, 1950s

Carrying a wounded man through the mud of Passchendaele, WWI

Relaxing by the sea in Lancashire, 1915

🇬🇧 A soldier home on leave from the British Expeditionary Force says goodbye to his baby son at the evacuation point in Greater London, June 1940. During the Blitz, many children were evacuated from London to the countryside to protect them from the German bombing raids.

🇬🇧 28 June 1838: Victoria is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Westminster Abbey, London. Her 63 year reign, known as the Victorian era, lasted until her death in 1901.

British stretcher bearers recovering a wounded soldier from a captured German trench during the Battle of Thiepval Ridge, late September 1916, part of the Battle of the Somme, WWI

British children playing around a fence, 1960s

Poppies growing over the graves of soldiers in France, WWI, 1918.

Armistice celebrations in London, November 1918

Piccadilly Circus, London, 1953

Father Christmas handing out gifts to evacuees from Peckham, c. 1940

British soldiers, WWII

A square of British infantry at the Battle of Waterloo, June 1815

Two women standing at a typical English pub in Eton 1928. Original autochrome colour photo

Miniature illustration of Eadwig of England in a royal genealogy of the fourteenth century. Eadwig ruled as King of England from 955-959.

Picking hops for beer, Paddock Wood, Kent, UK, September 1962

Soldiers of the Lancashire Fusiliers using a pump to drain a flooded trench, WWI (colourised)