Bush and Gorbachev begin their summit in Malta.
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the Vatican.
Record libel damages are awarded to the Conservative peer Lord Aldington.
Margaret Thatcher and Anthony Meyer submit their nominations for the Tory leadershi...
Czech PM Ladislav Adamec formally announces the end of the communists' monopoly on...
Margaret Thatcher defends her record on the BBC's Panorama.
An increasingly affluent and confident Britain is rocked by the Suez crisis.
The Czech leadership are forced to resign but demonstrators in Prague keep up the p...
The events and characters of Ireland's history are brought to life.
The events and characters of Ireland's history are brought to life.
Flirtatious games of musical chairs, sea-sickness and a tragic typhoon.
Stephen Duffy showcases recent work from our very own BBC SSO.
Janet Todd traces Mary Wollstonecraft's reactions to the events of the French Revol...
John Rogan reads from John Banville's book on Prague.
Events 100 years ago in the Highlands.
Mark Stephen explores the Highlands lodge that inspired the village in TV's The Pri...
Events 100 years ago in the Highlands.
Katie Hickman tells how diplomats' wives were welcomed to new homes.
The events and characters of Ireland's history are brought to life.
Sandi Toksvig on the appeal of Mary Wollstonecraft's book Letters Written in Sweden...
18th century Glasgow and its tobacco fortune is explored with Neil Oliver.
Y Rhyfel Oer gyda Ifor ap Glyn. Ifor ap Glyn explores the Cold War.
Billy Bragg on the Victorian music hall, considered Britain's original urban folk m...