Witness History Episodes Available now
Britain's First Black Woman MP
In 1987 Diane Abbott became the first black woman elected to the British Parliament
The Six Day War: A Jewish view
After the Six Day War in June 1967 Jews in Arab countries like Libya had to flee
Iran's Cultural Revolution
How Iran's Islamic hardliners shut down universities to drive out secular groups
Inter-racial Marriage in South Africa
In June 1985 the ban on inter-racial marriage in South Africa was finally lifted.
Flying to Freedom
In June 1970 a group of mainly Jewish dissidents tried to escape from the USSR by plane
The Six Day War: A Palestinian view
The Six Day War of 1967 between Israel and its Arab neighbours changed the Middle East
The Death of Walter Rodney
The Guyanese historian and political activist Walter Rodney was killed by a bomb in 1980
Denmark's Inuit Experiment
In 1951 a group of Inuit children were sent to Denmark for re-education as "little Danes"
Refugee Boat Tragedy
In June 1988 the US Navy came across a boat of Vietnamese refugees in the South China Sea
Women's Institute at 100
The British women's organisation set up to revitalise rural communities during WW1
