Witness History Episodes Available now
The Irish Contraceptive Train
A group of women challenged a ban on contraception and took a train to get them
Leopold and Loeb
In May 1924 two rich and educated teenage boys killed an acquaintance in Chicago
Crimean Tatars
In May 1944 the Tatar people of Crimea were forced into exile by the Soviet army
The Irish pirate Queen
Over 400 years ago an Irish woman pirate met Queen Elizabeth I
The fall of Berlin
The Red Army took control of the German capital Berlin, in May 1945
Easter Rising in Ireland
Eye-witness accounts of the Irish rebellion against British rule at Easter 1916.
Peter the Wild Boy
Nearly 300 years ago a feral child was brought to the court of King George I in London.
The death of President Tito
President Tito of Yugoslavia was one of the great characters of post-war Europe
Italian Bombing of Libya - 1911
The letters of an Italian pilot reveal how he carried out the first air raid in history
Ulrike Meinhof
In May 1976 the German left-wing extremist Ulrike Meinhof killed herself in prison
