Witness History Episodes Available now
Britain's Mirpuri migration
In 1967, the Mangla Dam was built in Mirpur spurring a huge global migration
Wham! in China
How Wham! became the first Western pop act to perform in communist China
Discovering the Terracotta Army
In 1974, Chinese farmers stumbled upon an astonishing archaeological site
The 'comfort women' of World War Two
Hundreds of thousands of Asian women were forced into sex slavery in the 1930s and 1940s
Surviving re-education in China’s Cultural Revolution
Thousands of people were sent to re-education camps during China’s cultural revolution
Pinyin: The man who helped China to read and write
In 1958, Zhou Youguang introduced a new writing system in China
The last eruption of Mount Vesuvius
Vesuvius is famous for burying Pompeii but it last erupted in 1944, during World War II.
Winifred Atwell: The honky-tonk star who was Sir Elton John’s hero
The forgotten story of Winifred Atwell, the pianist from Trinidad who broke sales records
Paraguay adopts its second language
How Guarani was officially recognised in Paraguay’s new constitution
Finding the longest set of footprints left by the first vertebrate
In 1992 a student found a set of fossilised footprints from the earliest vertebrate
