Witness History Episodes Available now
Criminals in the community
How Britain pioneered Community Service as an alternative to prison in the 1970s
Under the North Pole
In 1958 the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travelled under the North Pole.
The mass exodus of Algeria's 'Pieds Noirs'
How thousands of French families fled from Algeria as it won independence
The invasion of Kuwait
Thousands of Iraqi troops and tanks began pouring into Kuwait on 2 August 1990
The Warsaw uprising
On August 1st 1944, Polish resistance fighters rose up against German occupying forces
The anti-nuclear protesters who won
The eight year protest campaign which stopped a nuclear plant at Wackersdorf in Germany.
The treasures of Sutton Hoo
A huge hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold was discovered in southern England in 1939.
The death of David Kelly
The weapons inspector's death deepened the row over the UK's part in the invasion of Iraq
Humanity's earliest ancestor
A fossilised skull found in Chad is thought to be the earliest-known ancestor of humans
When Tunisia led on women's rights
When Tunisia introduced divorce, abortion and votes for women ahead of much of the world.
