Carrie Gibson

Because of our shared English language, as well as the celebrated origin tales of the Mayflower and the rebellion of the British colonies, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, the nation has much older Spanish roots, long marginalized....

On 4th October 1936, hundreds of people from London’s East End protested against Oswald Mosely and the UK’s growing fascist movement. One of the very few living veterans, 99 year old Ubby Cowan, tells his story....

On 18th March 1965, the first human walked in space. Broadcast live on TV, it very nearly ended in disaster. Russian Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov tells his story....

On 1st March 2001, two giant, standing Buddhas carved into sandstone cliffs in the Bamiyan valley in central Afghanistan, were destroyed. A local man, who was forced by the Taliban to help with the destruction, tells his story....

On 20th April 1964, the defence case in the Rivonia Trial opened. Nelson Mandela's speech would change South Africa and its reverberations would be felt around the world....

On November 16th 1968 a demonstration at the Olympics in Mexico City took the US civil rights movement to a global stage. Sprinter Lee Evans, who was in the stadium that day, tells the story....

On 10th February 1996, a computer named Deep Blue beat chess world champion Gary Kasparov, making a significant step forward in the progress of Artificial Intelligence....

On August 4th 1964 an incident involving a US battleship in the Gulf of Tonkin launched America’s involvement in the Vietnam War. Whistle blower Daniel Ellsberg, who started work at The Pentagon that day, tells the story....

On 20th November, 1970, members of the Women's Liberation Movement protested against the Miss World competition, live on TV. Jenny Fortune and Sue Finch tell their stories....

On July 12th 2010 cyber security expert Eric Chien uncovered a leaked cyberworm that would have a profound impact on the nature of cybercrime....

On September 21st 1944, a top secret unit altered the course of World War Two. 101-year-old Gilbert Seltzer, an officer in the "ghost army", tells his story....

On 26th April 1986 a series of explosions at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant sent radioactive material drifting across the Soviet Union and beyond. Lyubov Kovalevskaya, was in Chernobyl that day tells her story....