Witness History Episodes Available now
The Nazi Black Book
During WW2 Germany listed the people it wanted to arrest should Britain fall to the Nazis
Anti-traveller Riots in Sweden
In 1948 violence broke out against Romany-speaking traveller people in Sweden
Reform of the House of Lords
How Britain's Labour government tried to kick the aristocrats out of Parliament
Howl: The Poem That Revolutionised US Writing
How Allan Ginsberg's reading in San Francisco in 1955 started the "Beat Generation".
The Soviet Union's Fashion Revolutionary
Slava Zaitsev created the first high fashion collections in the USSR.
The Invention of Artificial Skin
How a chemist and a surgeon found a way of helping burns to heal.
The Street Battle That Rocked Brazil
A clash between students in 1968 paved the way for a hardening of military rule.
Racial Equality in Britain - Learie Constantine
The former West Indies cricketer took a London hotel to court in 1943
The Bridge Which United Sweden and Denmark
The bridge which connected neighbours across the water and inspired a TV hit worldwide.
Fighting in the Iran-Iraq War
The war lasted for 8 years and is thought to have left over a million people dead.
