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Witness History Episodes

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    Britain's forgotten slave owners: Part two

    The story of Britain's forgotten slave owners and the people they enslaved

  2. Britain's forgotten slave owners: Part one

    How researchers in London uncovered the story of Britain's forgotten slave owners

  3. How US 'smart bombs' hit an Iraqi air raid shelter in the first Gulf War

    More than 400 civilians died when US bombs hit the Amiriya air raid shelter in Baghdad

  4. A Ghanaian nurse's story

    Nurses from outside the UK form a vital part of the country's medical workforce

  5. The paper that helped the homeless

    The 'Street News' paper was sold by homeless people in New York at a profit to earn money

  6. Francis Bacon in the archives

    The painter Francis Bacon was known for his disturbing images and bohemian lifestyle

  7. DES Daughters

    A medical scandal which affected millions of women around the world

  8. General Robert E Lee: US Civil War rebel

    Lee was charged with treason, so why did Congress reinstate his citizenship in 1975?

  9. Drugs in the Vietnam War

    How a heroin epidemic among US troops in Vietnam caused panic in the military

  10. The Burma uprising of 1988

    People took to the streets of Burma, or Myanmar, to protest against military rule in 1988

  11. The Moscow State Circus

    The biggest circus in Soviet Russia opened in Moscow in April 1971.

  12. The first Eurostar from England to France

    The driver of the first train to take passengers from London to Paris remembers

  13. The anthem of the Arab Spring

    How a singer in Tunisia helped inspire young protestors all over the Middle East in 2011

  14. Libya's Arab uprising

    In 2011 protests soon turned into an armed revolt seeking to overthrow Colonel Gaddafi.

  15. Yemen's 2011 uprising

    Inspired by events in Tunisia and Egypt young Yemenis took to the streets in January 2011

  16. Syria in the Arab Spring

    The moment that hundreds of thousands of Syrians demanded change in 2011.

  17. Egypt's Facebook Girl

    How social media was used to organise against Egypt's government before the Arab Spring

  18. Fighting for justice for India's Sikhs

    Anti-Sikh violence flared in India after the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984

  19. Kenya's pioneering publisher

    Dr Henry Chakava made it his life's mission to publish in African languages.

  20. The Turner Diaries - America's manual of hatred

    The white supremacist novel by William Pierce which has been blamed for inciting violence

  21. Hitler's beer hall putsch

    Adolf Hitler made his first attempt to take power in Germany in 1923

  22. The New Cross fire

    How the New Cross fire in 1981 led to The Black People’s Day of Action.

  23. Estonia's singing revolution

    Rock star Tõnis Mägi describes how Estonia sang its way out of the Soviet Union.

  24. Landing on Titan

    The remarkable mission to explore one of the moons of Saturn in 2005

  25. Cornelia Sorabji: India's first woman lawyer

    She was the first to graduate from Oxford and was a pioneer for women lawyers in Britain.

  26. Puerto Rican attack at the US Capitol

    How independence campaigners opened fire in Congress in 1954, wounding five US law-makers

  27. When Spain's parliament was stormed

    Armed Civil Guards took MPs hostage in Spain's parliamentary chamber in 1981

  28. The book that warned 2020 would bring disaster

    The book describing a sudden uncontrollable downturn that was ignored by governments.

  29. Sequencing the Ebola virus genome

    When the deadly Ebola virus broke out in West Africa scientists in the USA set to work

  30. The 'strike' in space

    How three astronauts on the Skylab space station fell out with mission control

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