The story of our times told by the people who were there.
White students in apartheid South Africa stage a sit-in protest against racial injustice.
A pivotal moment in American popular culture - the Woodstock festival of 1969.
How thousands of Basque children were evacuated to Britain during the Spanish Civil War.
How villagers awoke to find hundreds of friends and neighbours mysteriously dead
The story of an extraordinary act of courage by the civil rights leader Martin Luther King
The hippy commune in Colorado in the Summer of Love, 1967.
The scoop of the century on the eve of World War II.
How an anti-nuclear march turned into a peace camp based outside a US airbase in the UK
It is 45 years since the South African Prime Minister was killed in Parliament.
In 1666, a fire destroyed much of the city of London. Two diarists recorded what happened.
How the collapse of the Soviet Union played out in the life of a teenager in Azerbaijan.
Two days before 9/11, al-Qaeda killed an Afghan anti-Taliban leader.
On 12 September 1980, the military took control of Turkey.
In the 1960s non-white immigrants were not welcome in Australia.
The trials of senior Nazis began in the autumn of 1945.
On 15 September 2008, the US investment bank Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy.
On 16 September 1992, Britain lost billions in foreign currency reserves in a single day.
The Secretary General of the UN was killed in a plane crash 50 years ago.
In November 1974 the Palestinian leader was allowed to speak at the UN.
The Chilean politician was killed by a bomb in Washington DC, 35 years ago.
In the mid 1960s young people in China were encouraged to criticise their elders.
He was the President of Liberia and in September 1990 he died a very violent death.
Almost 40 years ago Britain and Iceland came to blows over fishing rights.
He was one of the most innovative musicians in the USA in the 1960s.
