Witness History: Witness Archive 2017

In March 1997 the BBC launched one of the most successful children's TV programmes ever. Teletubbies was aimed at toddle... Read more

The four huge granite heads of former presidents on Mount Rushmore have become one of America's most famous monuments. C... Read more

During the Vietnam war, the US army's Psychological Operations, or PSYOP, teams were deployed to battle communist Viet C... Read more

On October 16th 1962 the American president, John F Kennedy, received news that the Soviets were secretly deploying nucl... Read more

The murder of gay student Matthew Shepard in October 1998 shocked America. After a decade of campaigning, his mother, Ju... Read more

In post-WW2 Japan, musician Shinichi Suzuki developed a new method of teaching the violin - which would spread around th... Read more

What exactly goes on during the months between the election of a President and their inauguration? Witness looks at pas... Read more

Albania was hit by a wave of violent unrest in January 1997 after the collapse of 'pyramid' investment schemes. At least... Read more

In July 1972 Tony and Maureen Wheeler set off on the holiday of a lifetime travelling from London to Sydney in Australia... Read more

On 7 November 1917, Bolshevik revolutionaries overthrew the provisional government set up in Russia after the fall of th... Read more

Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu made abortion illegal in October 1966 - but many women still tried to end their preg... Read more

In May 1947, the legendary photographic co-operative Magnum Photos was set up by a group of famous photographers, includ... Read more

Nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale - known to generations as the "lady with the lamp" - died on August 13th 1910. Lucy... Read more

The photos taken in 1917 by two young girls were heralded by the Sherlock Holmes author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, as proo... Read more

In August 1941 one of the greatest poets India has ever produced died. Known as the "Bard of Bengal" Rabindranath Tagor... Read more

The last man to be executed by guillotine in France was a disabled Tunisian murderer, Hamida Djandoubi. He was beheaded... Read more

An ambitious ecological experiment was launched in Arizona in September 1991. It aimed to see if human beings could prod... Read more

In 1917, British code-breakers exposed a German plot against the United States which helped alter the course of World Wa... Read more

Guinea became the first French West African colony to declare independence in October 1958. In a referendum held through... Read more

In April 1977, a group of disabled activists occupied a government building in San Francisco for nearly a month. The pro... Read more