Witness History Episodes Available now
Fighting racism on the dancefloor
New laws were used to stop clubs from banning black and ethnic minority people in 1978
Britain's first black woman headteacher
Yvonne Conolly was made head of a London primary school in 1969.
The voyage of the Empire Windrush
A ship carrying hundreds of migrants from the Caribbean set sail for Britain in 1948
The house by the lake
The summer house by a lake which witnessed much of Germany's 20th century history
Operation Breakthrough: Fighting to save three whales
Three gray whales got caught in the ice off Alaska in October 1988
The founding of Google
In 1998 the world's most popular search engine was launched by two PHD students
The Mafia trial of Italy’s former Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti
A trial which shone a light on links between Italian politicians and the Mafia
The death of Gamal Abdel Nasser
The charismatic Egyptian president dominated Arab politics for almost two decades
Bush v Gore: The 'hanging chads' US election of 2000
The US presidential election of 2000 was one of the closest and most contested in history
Blackwater killed my son
How US private security guards opened fire on civilians in Baghdad, killing 17 people
