Witness History Episodes Available now
Women At West Point
In July 1976, female cadets were admitted to the US Military Academy for the first time.
Winston Churchill's Election Defeat
In July l945 Britain's wartime leader Winston Churchill was ousted in a general election
The Whitewashing of Zimbabwe's Ancient History
The contentious history of the ruined city of Great Zimbabwe - finally revealed.
The Kitchen Debate
When two Cold War leaders argued about living standards in their countries.
South Korea's Summer Of Terror
How thousands of suspected communist sympathisers were killed in South Korea in 1950.
A Vet Remembers The Hyde Park Bombing
Two IRA bombs in London parks killed 11 military personnel and 7 horses on 20th July 1982
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was signed in July 1968
The Bombing of the King David Hotel
The attack by an armed Jewish group on British HQ in Palestine that left 91 dead.
The Virgin Lands Campaign
To fight food shortages in the 1950s the USSR embarked on a major agricultural project
The Killing of the Russian Tsar
The Russian Tsar and his family were shot in a cellar in Yekaterinburg on 17 July 1918