Witness History Episodes Available now
Fighting the Islamic State group online
How one historian living in Mosul took aim at the Islamic State group on the internet.
Being black in Nazi Germany
Theodor Wonja Michael was a child when Hitler came to power in Germany.
The Sound of Music on Broadway
The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical was performed on stage before it became a movie.
Sir Anthony Blunt - Soviet spy
The distinguished art historian was exposed as a former Soviet spy in the autumn of 1979.
CS Lewis and the Chronicles of Narnia
The first book in CS Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia series was published in autumn 1950
Free breakfast with the Black Panthers
The revolutionary Black Panther Party provided free breakfasts for local schoolchildren.
The repeal of 'Don't ask, don't tell'
Until 2011 LGBT service people in the US armed forces had to keep their sexuality secret
An Ethiopian war hero
Ethiopia sent soldiers to fight alongside the United Nations during the Korean War
Magellan and the first voyage around the world
In 1519, the Portuguese explorer set off on the first circumnavigation of the globe.
Conflict timber in Liberia's civil war
How the timber industry fuelled a brutal civil war in West Africa.
