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Apartheid Laws scrapped Duration: 03:35 Historic announcement from Cape Town Parliament on the end of Apartheid in 1991. |
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100th anniversary of old age pensions is celebrated Duration: 01:28 The Old Age Pensions Act of 1908 is celebrated at a museum in Durham. |
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16th Street Baptist Church bombing, 1963 Duration: 02:04 Racist whites bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Four young girls were killed. |
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1970 Miss World protest Duration: 03:03 1970 Miss World competition hosted by Bob Hope, disrupted by protesters. |
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A Christmas truce for Berliners (pt 1/2) Duration: 04:57 Special passes allow West Berliners to go to the East to visit family at Christmas time in 1963. People describe crossing the boundary to the East on Christmas Day 1963. |
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A Christmas truce for Berliners (pt 2/2) Duration: 02:41 Special passes allow West Berliners to go to the East to visit family at Christmas time in 1963. A son describes how it felt to see his mother again after two years. |
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A history of migration from Ireland Duration: 05:28 A historical overview of immigration from Ireland to various countries and what immigration meant. |
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A pacified village Duration: 02:50 A report about a pacified village, which is meant to be free of Vietong influence but in reality it is not. |
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A personal reply to Enoch Powell’s speech Duration: 03:15 Michael Heseltine argues in favour of British peoples' tolerance towards immigrants. |
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A Suffragette describes her actions Duration: 04:26 The memories of a militant Suffragette on her attack on a window of a guards officer, and her admiration of the leadership of women's equality activist Emmeline Pankhurst. |
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A twice promised land Duration: 04:16 A description of the contratictory promises made during the First World War, by the British minister McMahon to support the Arab claims in Palestine and by Balfour to support the Jewish claim of independence in the Middle East. |
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