成人快手

Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation Derby

The Coronation Derby of 1953

• 9 mins

Windsor Castle fire

How a fire devastated Queen Elizabeth II's weekend home in 1992

• 9 mins

When the Queen opened Buckingham Palace

Queen Elizabeth II first opened her home to the paying public on 7 August 1993

• 9 mins

The last days of Queen Victoria

Witness History looks back on Queen Victoria's last days in 1901

• 9 mins

World War Two child evacuees in Britain

The thousands of children moved out of UK cities away from the risk of German bombs

• 9 mins

Ancient fossils give new insight

A student discovered fossils in 1967 helping our understanding of the world's evolution

• 9 mins

The first Pope to visit Africa

Popes rarely left the Vatican City in the 1960s, but in 1969, Pope Paul VI visited Uganda

• 9 mins

Iran-Iraq War begins

On 22 September 1980 the Iran-Iraq war began, one of the bloodiest in recent history

• 9 mins

Festival of Light

The Nationwide Festival of Light held by Christians protested against societal changes

• 9 mins

The power of Jomo Kenyatta

Death pardons and chasing diplomats with sticks

• 9 mins

Chiune Sugihara: The Japanese Schindler

In 1940, Chiune Sugihara saved the lives of Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis

• 9 mins

Castrating Pablo Escobar's hippos

Pablo Escobar's pet hippos were found roaming Colombian waterways in 2007

• 9 mins

The raising of the Mary Rose

King Henry VIII's warship, The Mary Rose, was raised from the seabed in October 1982

• 9 mins

Dassler brothers鈥� rift

Brothers Adi and Rudi Dassler would go on to create global firms Adidas and Puma.

• 9 mins

The funk and soul club that changed Manchester

Manchester鈥檚 first racially inclusive nightclub

• 9 mins

The release of Gilad Shalit

Israeli solider Gilad Shalit was freed after being held hostage for more than five years

• 9 mins

The fall of Slobodan Milosevic

How the Yugoslavian president was forced from office in October 2000

• 9 mins

The Harder They Come

Jimmy Cliff spoke about the film that brought reggae music to the world in 1972

• 9 mins

The beginnings of Notting Hill Carnival

In 1959, Claudia Jones held a Caribbean party, planting the seeds for the famous carnival

• 9 mins

UK鈥檚 鈥榃inter of Discontent鈥�

In 1979, British gravediggers went on strike over pay

• 9 mins

Disney animators' strike

In 1941, the animators at Walt Disney's studios went on strike for nine weeks over pay

• 9 mins

Torturing strikers in South Korea

A strike for better work conditions became a divisive moment in South Korea's history

• 9 mins

Geisha mountain top strike

In 1937, geisha from Osaka sat on a mountain for a week until their union was recognised

• 9 mins

Cesar Chavez鈥檚 campaign for farm workers

How the leader of a labour movement became a US civil rights hero

• 9 mins

Cuban Missile Crisis: The photos

The CIA expert whose job was to interpret photographs of missiles in Cuba

• 9 mins

Cuban Missile Crisis: The showdown

The final days of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis in the Pentagon and the Kremlin

• 9 mins

The 鈥榓rmy鈥� that taught Cuba to read and write

In 1961, Fidel Castro launched a campaign aimed to eradicate illiteracy in Cuba.

• 9 mins

Cuba's boxing ban

In 1962, Fidel Castro banned professional boxing in Cuba, causing some amateurs to defect

• 9 mins

Founder of the Cuban National Ballet

In 1959, Cuba鈥檚 most famous ballet dancer formed Cuba鈥檚 National Ballet Company

• 9 mins

Indonesia鈥檚 indigenous people take a stand

The first ever Congress of Indigenous People of the Archipelago of Indonesia in 1999

• 9 mins