History as told by the people who were there. All the programmes from 2015.
The Six Day War of 1967 between Israel and its Arab neighbours changed the Middle East
The Guyanese historian and political activist Walter Rodney was killed by a bomb in 1980
In 1951 a group of Inuit children were sent to Denmark for re-education as "little Danes"
Professor Denny Mitchison was a pioneer in the search for a cure for tuberculosis.
In June 1988 the US Navy came across a boat of Vietnamese refugees in the South China Sea
The British women's organisation set up to revitalise rural communities during WW1
In June 1975, Britain held a referendum on its membership of the Common Market
The Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann gave hours of interview before his capture and trial
Chaos at the funeral of Iran's leader as millions gathered to mourn his death.
In early June 1937 San Francisco was celebrating the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge
On June 1st 1981, the public library in the Sri Lankan city of Jaffna was set on fire.
Thirty-nine people died during the European Cup Final between Liverpool and Juventus.
In May 1865 a group of Welsh settlers left Liverpool for Patagonia
In May 1980 the British government published a booklet about how to survive nuclear war
The Californian woman who ended segregation in the American housing market in 1967.
One soldier's diary account of the brutal Italian campaign fought in the Alps
An eye-witness account of the murder of the outspoken cleric, soon to declared a saint
On 21 May 1981 the legendary reggae singer was buried in Jamaica
In May 2000, gunmen broke into parliament in Fiji and declared a coup
It is 80 years since the Englishman TE Lawrence, known as Lawrence of Arabia, died
The story of the hugely deformed Joseph Merrick, a celebrity in Victorian Britain.
In May 1960 the massive Kariba hydro-electric dam on Africa's Zambezi river was opened.
It is 60 years since the frog puppet first appeared on an American children's TV show
On May 13th 2005 hundreds of demonstrators were killed by soldiers in an Uzbek town.
