History as told by the people who were there.
In 1948, the foundation was laid for a “utopian” community of houses designed by a man described as
Carolina Maria de Jesus was a poor, single mother-of-three who lived in a derelict shack and spent h
In 2000, nightclub owners and twins Frederik and Gerrit Braun went from the neon lights of a Hamburg
South Africa’s first feature film aimed at black audiences was released in 1949, launching Dolly Rat
On 1 June 1985, a convoy of New Age Travellers set off for the ancient stone circle of Stonehenge in
On 31 May 2006, police launched one of the largest raids in Swedish history, seizing servers from Th
In 1958 Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe, published his first book, Things Fall Apart. Set in pre-colo
In 2015, rockstar and Canadian icon Gord Downie was given months to live, after doctors found he had
In 1992, European football was at a turning point. The European Cup was going to be replaced with a
It is only since Vivian Maier's death in 2009 that the 150,000 photographs she rarely showed to anyo
In the aftermath of World War Two, a group of famous photographers brought their individual styles i
Martín Chambi is regarded as one of the most important indigenous Peruvian photographers of the 20th
J. D. 'Okhai Ojeikere, who was known as Nigeria’s top photographer, started documenting women’s hair
In 1932, a photo was taken showing 11 New York ironworkers casually eating their lunch while sitting
In the 1940s, some vulnerable Swedish hospital patients were fed large amounts of sugary sweets as p
In 2013, Mexico’s government approved a tax on sugary soft drinks. The country has one of the highes
On 14 May 1955, the leader of the Soviet Union and leaders from seven European countries met to sign
By 1915, the two great rivals, Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison, had brought electricity to the world.
In 1980, Finnish singer Marion Rung won the Intervision Song Contest. Born in the 1960s, Intervision
In May 2015, when the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria was about to fall to jihadist fighters, a gro
