The ‘father of e-books’
In 1971, an American historical document typed out on a university computer played a vital role in the digital revolution of electronic books. It became the foundation of Project Gutenberg.Michael Har...
6 Nov 202510min
The creation of Miffy
It's 70 years since Miffy was created.The little rabbit with two dots for eyes and an X for a mouth went on to feature in 32 books translated into more than 50 languages.The Dutch author and illustrat...
5 Nov 202510min
President Clinton is impeached
In 1999, the US Senate chamber in Washington DC was turned into a court to put President Bill Clinton on trial, after he admitted lying about an affair with an intern called Monica Lewinsky. In 2011, ...
4 Nov 202510min
The brains behind Thunderbirds
In 1965, a groundbreaking children's show using cutting-edge puppets first blast onto television screens. Thunderbirds was set in 2065 and followed the antics of secret organisation ‘International Res...
3 Nov 202510min
Emerante de Pradines: Haiti’s musical trailblazer
Emerante de Pradines was a Haitian singer, dancer and folklorist who became the first person from her country to sign a record deal. She was dedicated to de-demonising vodou music and folklore and wen...
31 Okt 202510min
Orson Welles broadcasts The War of the Worlds
The night before Halloween in 1938, 23-year-old Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre on the Air performed a radio adaptation of HG Wells’s The War of the Worlds.It would become one of the most notorio...
30 Okt 202510min
Srebrenica massacre
It's 30 years since a massacre of Bosnian Muslims during the war in the former Yugoslavia. The Srebrenica massacre, recognised by the United Nations as a genocide, was the shocking climax of the war i...
29 Okt 202510min
The invention of the balloon-expandable stent
An estimated 2 million stents are implanted into people’s hearts around the world each year – making it one of the key treatments for heart disease. The treatment was invented by Argentinian doctor J...
28 Okt 202510min
