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Unearthing World War II mass graves and the Boston bombing
The unearthing of a mass grave in Ukraine, and the Boston bombing in 2013
The history of dogs
Inventing the labradoodle, the first dog in space and the world's first therapy dog
Artist Althea McNish and history of the Met Gala
Trinidadian Althea McNish designs for Queen Elizabeth II and the Met Gala's popularity
The 'Stone of Destiny' and a self-proclaimed Emperor
The removal of a symbolic royal stone and the former child King turned Prime Minister
World War Two African victory and 'Kai Tak heart attack'
The Allies' campaign in North Africa and the last flight out of a Hong Kong airport
Singapore executes Filipina maid and German child evacuees of World War Two
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes
Bosnian concentration camp photo and hero clown
A shocking photo from the Yugoslav war and how a clown helped after an earthquake in Peru
Scaling Everest, the highest mountain in the world
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, were the first people to reach the summit of Everest
Inuit children taken from families and Le Mans crash
Why children like Adamie Kalingo were taken from their indigenous communities in Canada
Amazing photographs and the people who took them
Focusing on Lee Miller in Hitler's bath, a shell-shocked US marine and an unseen Africa
Somalia's civil war and golf on the moon
The Somali pilot who defied orders to bomb civilians, and playing golf on the moon
South Korea store collapse and Lady Gaga's meat dress
Seoul's department store collapse and the man who made Lady Gaga's meat dress
Tourism arrives in the Maldives and a royal night out
How tourism began in the Maldives, the start of the NHS in the UK and a royal night out
Five great inventions that changed the world
The world's first robot dog, the first emoji and the invention of the Rubik's Cube
Wartime surrenders and the birth of Barbie
A compilation of this week's Witness History episodes
West African food and computer viruses
The rise of Mr Bigg's in Nigeria and the man who made the first personal computer virus
Dinosaur discoveries and a Berlin Wall treehouse
Prehistoric eggs, a dinosaur in court and the treehouse built beside the Berlin Wall.
Presidential diamonds and Tupperware parties
A duck that toppled a president, a British train robbery and the Tupperware party boom.
Judy Garland's legacy and the Benin Bronzes
The legacy of Judy Garland and the return of two looted Benin Bronzes stolen in 1897
Ireland's 'ghost estates' and the first Rose of Tralee
The Celtic Tiger, the first Rose of Tralee and activist swimmers in Dublin.
Historic Korean summit and goat island
The first inter-Korean summit in 50 years and the Mexican island overrun by goats
The Chilean coup and Zanzibar’s most famous singer
The 1973 military coup in Chile and Zanzibar’s ‘golden grandmother of music’
Israeli and Palestinian history
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History episodes.
Nazi eugenics and the year of the vuvuzela
Adolf Hitler’s order to sterilise people, and the ‘world’s most annoying instrument’
The Lampedusa disaster and cat cafes
The sinking of a migrant boat 10 years ago, and the world's first cat cafe in Taiwan.
Marking 50 years since the 1973 global oil crisis
Why oil prices spiralled in 1973, plus Amoco Cadiz, one of the world’s largest oil spills
The creation of Ghana's flag and the oldest person at primary school
How Ghana's flag was designed, and the 84-year-old Kenyan man who fought to be educated
Osmondmania! and the launch of Lagos Fashion Week
Donny Osmond shares his memories of teen hysteria, and the birth of Lagos Fashion Week
Gezi Park protests and MAD hijack
Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes.
Che Guevara's daughter and marrying Freddie Mercury
Aleida Guevara on being a doctor in Angola's civil war and Jane Seymour on Fashion Aid
Pakistani popstars, and the hippo and the tortoise
An hour of historical reporting told by the people who were there.
