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Back to SearchThe first African to win the Nobel Peace Prize
When Chief Albert Luthuli won the Nobel Peace Prize he was living under a banning order in rural South Africa. He won the prize for advocating peacef…
5 years, 1 month ago
The fall of Addis Ababa
In May 1991, the brutal Ethiopian dictator, Colonel Mengistu and his military regime were on the verge of collapse after years of civil war. The end …
5 years, 1 month ago
Disability History special
We look back at the fight for disability rights in the UK and India in the 1990s, plus the remarkable life of Helen Keller as told by her great niec…
5 years, 1 month ago
The world's first woman premier
Sirimavo Bandaranaike was elected prime minster of Sri Lanka, or Ceylon as it was known then, in 1960 following the assassination of her husband, Sol…
5 years, 1 month ago
The Guerrilla Girls
In 1985 a group of anonymous female artists in New York began dressing up with gorilla masks on their heads and putting up fly-posters around the cit…
5 years, 1 month ago
The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
In 1995, the Israeli prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, was murdered at a peace rally in Tel Aviv. We hear how his death scuppered hopes of peace in the …
5 years, 2 months ago
US presidential history special
Eyewitness accounts of moments in US presidential history: Inside JFK's election victory, remembering Shirley Chisholm - the first African American f…
5 years, 2 months ago
Why Portugal decriminalised all drugs
In the grips of a drug crisis, why Portugal took a radical approach in 2001 and became the first country in the world to decriminalise all drugs. Als…
5 years, 2 months ago
CNN and the 24-hour news revolution
In June 1980, US media mogul Ted Turner launched the first TV station dedicated to 24 hour news, Cable News Network or CNN. We get a first-hand accou…
5 years, 2 months ago
British black history special
We present five eyewitness accounts of moments in British black history. Including the late Sam King remembering the voyage of the Empire Windrush, p…
5 years, 3 months ago