Witness History Episodes Available now
The first iPhone
The touchscreen smartphone changed mobile technology for ever.
The Trojan Room coffee pot
The world's first webcam went online in 1993. Its camera was focused on a coffee pot.
The Homebrew computer club
A group of Californian computer enthusiasts first began meeting to share ideas in 1975.
Being a Chinese Muslim
It has never been easy to practice a religious faith in communist China
The Swedish warship restored after 300 years
A Swedish warship, Vasa, sank in the 17th century but was raised from the seabed in 1961
Avenging the Amritsar Massacre
A former British governor of Punjab was shot in 1940 as revenge for killings in Amritsar
The trembling giant
Could the biggest living organism on earth be a colony of quaking aspen trees?
Britain's first woman judge
Rose Heilbron was a trailblazer for women in the legal profession in Britain.
The AIDS Memorial Quilt
In 1985 activists made a giant quilt to commemorate those killed by AIDS in the USA.
The Cheonan sinking
On March 26th 2010 a South Korean naval ship sank after an explosion - 48 sailors died
