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Mahatma Gandhi
Rajmohan Gandhi remembers his grandfather, the father of India
Arab Unity
Gamal Abdel Nasser was President of Egypt and the most influential advocate of Arab unity
Princess Diana
Photographer Jayne Fincher accompanied Diana, Princess of Wales, on her royal tours
Living in Colonial Sumatra
Rosihan Anwar discusses Dutch colonialism in western Sumatra where he grew up
Kenya's Mau Mau Uprising
Harkman Muiruri Muniu took part in the campaign against colonial rule in 1952
The Final Years of British Rule in India
Sir Denholm Fraser liaised with India's Maharajas in the run up to independence
The Telephone
Kayan Nyelang explains how life has been transformed since the arrival of the telephone
Living in Colonial Algeria
"It was a kind of South Africa without the legal system of apartheid"
Writing and Sending Letters
Shamlu Dudeja recalls when letters were written by scribes and some were sent by camel
Argentina's Eva Peron
Christina Alvarez Rodriguez, describes her great aunt Evita as 'A woman of action'
Colonialisation and Decolonialisation
The fight for independence and self government in the 20th Century
Monument to the Spanish Civil War
Laurentino Saenz de Baruaga is a Benedictine monk who tends the Valle de los Caidos
The UN's Dag Hammarskjold
Brian Urquhart remembers Dag Hammarskjold who helped shape the United Nations.
New Zealand's Aviation Pioneer
Jean Batten flew solo from Britain to New Zealand in 1936
Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington
Jan Scruggs describes how it has helped the US to recover from the trauma of Vietnam
Israel's Yad Vashem
Ben Helscott lost both parents in the Holocaust. He describes what Israel's memorial means
Monuments and Memorials
Commemorating the people and events that marked the 20th Century
Photo-journalist for Picture Post Magazine
Grace Robertson travelled around Europe with her camera after World War II
Photographing Sharpeville
Ian Berry's pictures are a graphic record of the massacre of demonstrators in South Africa
How Fridges Have Changed Lives
Zvikomborero Mlambo used to spend hours preserving food: drying, smoking and salting
Edison's Industrial Research Laboratory
Menlo Park had a team of researchers who worked on research and development
The Invention of Polythene
Polythene was a vital ingredient in the development of radar in World War II
The Invention of Nylon
Norman Miles took part in an early experiment to test the durability of the new fibre
Che Guevara
Richard Gott was there when the security forces showed Guevara's body to the press
The Falsification of Photographs in the USSR
How Stalin encouraged the alteration of photographs to remove people such as Trotsky
Looking through a Family Album
Dorothy Childs on her family photos that captured key moments of the 20th Century
Making Clothes in Gambia
Dressmaker Margery Liwali talks about one of Gambia's most popular professions
Moving from Venezuela's Rainforest
Indigenous Venezuelan Hilda Samson worries about her community losing their culture
Traditional Native American Storyteller
Liz Campbell tells the story of Poia - how the Blackfeet people got the sun dance
The Sami People of Northern Europe
Pekka Aikio is a member of a group that have traditionally lived by herding reindeer
Australia's Stolen Generation
Cecil Dickson was taken away from his parents when he was just four years old