Sending the First Message over the Internet

Tech pioneer Leonard Kleinrock developed the technology to send messages on the internet

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Teaching via Radio in Australia

Elizabeth Adelt's students live in the outback - they belong to the School of the Air

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Communication

The revolution that took place in communication technology in the 20th Century

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Mahatma Gandhi

Rajmohan Gandhi remembers his grandfather, the father of India

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Arab Unity

Gamal Abdel Nasser was President of Egypt and the most influential advocate of Arab unity

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Princess Diana

Photographer Jayne Fincher accompanied Diana, Princess of Wales, on her royal tours

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Living in Colonial Sumatra

Rosihan Anwar discusses Dutch colonialism in western Sumatra where he grew up

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Kenya's Mau Mau Uprising

Harkman Muiruri Muniu took part in the campaign against colonial rule in 1952

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The Final Years of British Rule in India

Sir Denholm Fraser liaised with India's Maharajas in the run up to independence

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The Telephone

Kayan Nyelang explains how life has been transformed since the arrival of the telephone

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Living in Colonial Algeria

"It was a kind of South Africa without the legal system of apartheid"

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Writing and Sending Letters

Shamlu Dudeja recalls when letters were written by scribes and some were sent by camel

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Argentina's Eva Peron

Christina Alvarez Rodriguez, describes her great aunt Evita as 'A woman of action'

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Colonialisation and Decolonialisation

The fight for independence and self government in the 20th Century

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Monument to the Spanish Civil War

Laurentino Saenz de Baruaga is a Benedictine monk who tends the Valle de los Caidos

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The UN's Dag Hammarskjold

Brian Urquhart remembers Dag Hammarskjold who helped shape the United Nations.

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New Zealand's Aviation Pioneer

Jean Batten flew solo from Britain to New Zealand in 1936

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Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington

Jan Scruggs describes how it has helped the US to recover from the trauma of Vietnam

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Israel's Yad Vashem

Ben Helscott lost both parents in the Holocaust. He describes what Israel's memorial means

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Monuments and Memorials

Commemorating the people and events that marked the 20th Century

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Photo-journalist for Picture Post Magazine

Grace Robertson travelled around Europe with her camera after World War II

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Photographing Sharpeville

Ian Berry's pictures are a graphic record of the massacre of demonstrators in South Africa

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How Fridges Have Changed Lives

Zvikomborero Mlambo used to spend hours preserving food: drying, smoking and salting

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Edison's Industrial Research Laboratory

Menlo Park had a team of researchers who worked on research and development

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The Invention of Polythene

Polythene was a vital ingredient in the development of radar in World War II

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The Invention of Nylon

Norman Miles took part in an early experiment to test the durability of the new fibre

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Che Guevara

Richard Gott was there when the security forces showed Guevara's body to the press

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The Falsification of Photographs in the USSR

How Stalin encouraged the alteration of photographs to remove people such as Trotsky

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Looking through a Family Album

Dorothy Childs on her family photos that captured key moments of the 20th Century

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Making Clothes in Gambia

Dressmaker Margery Liwali talks about one of Gambia's most popular professions

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