The story of our times told by the people who were there.
In May 1980 the British government published a booklet on how to survive nuclear war
It is 35 years since the Italian Prime Minister, Aldo Moro was found dead in a car in Rome
The scandal which lead to President Richard Nixon standing down 40 years ago
The leaders of 32 newly-independent African countries met to discuss uniting the continent
A senior UN official recalls Israel's hasty withdrawl from southern Lebanon in 2000.
A film-maker remembers the flamboyant pianist and entertainer immortalised in a new film.
100 years ago, the premiere of a Stravinsky ballet caused a riot in Paris.
How Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tensing conquered the world's highest mountain in 1953.
Eighty years ago, Franklin D Roosevelt promised to rescue the US from the Great Depression
Two Maids of Honour remember the crowning of Queen Elizabeth the Second in London in 1953.
Twelve years ago, the Crown Prince of Nepal massacred his family at the royal palace
How a protest by black activists in 1963 led to the UK's first anti-racism laws
Twelve years ago, Timothy McVeigh was executed for carrying out the 1995 Oklahoma bombing
Millions of people were sent to brutal labour camps in the USSR under Joseph Stalin
How huge crowds of Americans mourned Bobby Kennedy after his 1968 assassination.
In June 1962 three prisoners escaped from the maximum security US jail.
The election of Chief MKO Abiola 20 years ago, which was annulled by the military
A child's eye view of life in Berlin in the aftermath of World War II
In 1971 one man leaked thousands of pages of secret US government documents to the press.
The first gay marriage in America took place more than 40 years ago in Minnesota.
It is 60 years since the American couple were executed for spying
It is 40 years since the opening of a comedy musical which would become a cult phenomenon
In June 1979 an American TV reporter was shot dead by government forces in Nicaragua
In June 1963 Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova went into orbit.
