成人快手

The Bristol bus boycott

How British black activists fought for employment rights in the 1960s

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Britain's World War Two 'Brown Babies'

The stigma of growing up as a mixed race child in post-war Britain

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Proving climate change: The Keeling curve

An American scientist began recording carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere in 1958

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Mexico City slashes car use

How Mexico City cut its dangerously high air pollution levels

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The man who fed the world

Dr Norman Borlaug鈥檚 pioneering work on disease-resistant grains saved millions.

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Britain's worst nuclear accident

A reactor caught fire at the Windscale nuclear plant in the north of England in 1957

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Wangari Maathai Nobel Prize-winning environmentalist

Kenyan activist Wangari Maathai fought to save forests and protect human rights

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The legalisation of Solidarity

The Polish trade union organisation was banned by the communists until April 1989

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The reburial of a Hungarian hero

The body of Imre Nagy who had led the Hungarian Uprising was reburied in 1989

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East German refugees in the Prague embassy

Thousands of East Germans sought refuge in the West German embassy in Prague in 1989.

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The Leipzig demonstrations

The Berlin Wall fell just a month after mass protests in the East German city of Leipzig

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The fall of the Berlin Wall

The border between communist East Germany and the West opened on November 9th 1989

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Margaret Thatcher's anti-Europe speech

The British Prime Minister started expressing doubts about the European Union in 1988

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The Paris hotel that hosted Holocaust survivors

The Hotel Lutetia became a reception centre for French Holocaust survivors after WW2

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The Algerians who fought with France

When Algeria won independence in 1962 thousands of local French allies faced persecution

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'Jane' - the underground abortion service

An underground feminist network performed illegal abortions in 1960s Chicago.

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Saving the Great Barrier Reef

The 1960s campaigners who fought the government to save the world's biggest coral reef.

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Iran hostage crisis: the humanitarian delegation

How Iranian students invited a group of Americans to Iran to meet the hostages

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A ground-breaking change to treating breast cancer

How a Canadian oncologist proved the effectiveness of breast-conserving surgery

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Britain's secret propaganda war

How sex, jazz and 'fake news' were used to undermine the Nazis in World War Two

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The Bhagalpur blindings

How Indian police tortured petty criminals, blinding them permanently

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The concert that rocked the Berlin Wall

The 1987 rock concert that led to the first shouts in East Berlin of 'the wall must go'

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Memories of Wilfred Owen

The British war poet's younger brother Harold Owen spoke to the 成人快手 in the 1960s

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Cap Anamur: A rescue that led to jail

Why a captain was arrested after saving shipwrecked Africans in the Mediterranean in 2004

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The demolition of the Babri Masjid

How Hindu extremists demolished a mosque in India prompting months of communal violence

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The Love Canal disaster

How the Love Canal neigbourhood in the US came to symbolise the dangers of toxic waste

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The first Indian to win Miss World

Reita Faria was the first Indian to win the Miss World beauty competition in 1966

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The first Tasers

Why Los Angeles police began using a new weapon in the early 1980s.

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The 'Woman in Gold'

How one of Klimt's most famous paintings was returned to the family who'd owned it

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I saw the soldiers who killed El Salvador's priests

Lucia Cerna was the only witness to a murder that shocked El Salvador in November 1989

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