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Back to SearchStories of resistance and protest from around the world
Max Pearson brings you a roundup of this week’s Witness History stories of resistance from the last 70 years. From the early days of opposition to P…
6 years ago
Prohibition in India
How Indian women in the 1990s campaigned to stop the sale of alcohol in the state of Andhra Pradesh to protect women from domestic violence and safe…
6 years ago
Inventing James Bond
How author and former intelligence officer Ian Fleming created the British super-spy, James Bond plus, how the British government shifted social care…
6 years, 1 month ago
Margaret Ekpo - Nigeria's feminist pioneer
Margaret Ekpo helped establish Nigerian independence and became one of the country's first female MPs. We hear from her grandson and speak to a Niger…
6 years, 1 month ago
The siege at Ruby Ridge
Randy Weaver was a white separatist in Idaho in the north-west United States who was wanted by the government on firearms charges. When government ag…
6 years, 1 month ago
Beirut's hotel war
At the start of the Lebanese civil war in 1975, Beirut’s luxury hotel district was turned into a battlefield, with rival groups of gunmen holed up in…
6 years, 1 month ago
The Second World War in Japan
It’s 75 years this week since the dropping of atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which led to Japan’s surrender to Allied forces and the end of …
6 years, 1 month ago
Adrift for 76 Days
Surviving the Atlantic alone in a liferaft, Spain's historic 1960s tourism boom, the death of the infamous Nazi Heinrich Himmler, plus fighting Aust…
6 years, 2 months ago
The Million Man March
On 16th October 1995 hundreds of thousands of black American men marched on Washington D.C. in an attempt to put black issues back on the government …
6 years, 2 months ago
South Korea's 1980s prison camps
The horrors of South Korea's so-called Social Purification project, the vanished Chinese sailors who left their mark on Liverpool after the Second Wo…
6 years, 2 months ago