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This interesting photo was taken on Jan 19th, 1981, when boxing superstar Muhammad Ali talked a man down from jumping from a high-rise building. This more...

We would love to give some massive recognition to 'The Heritage Fund'.
Mid-way through last year, The History Project had an more...

What better way to teach history than to enable the children to find, clean and research it themselves.
This is the first of a 10 part more...

This is arguably the toughest image we’ve ever written about. It was taken by a French reporter, Frank Fournier on Nov 16th, 1985 and it eventu more...

This photo was taken in December, 1989 outside the headquarters of the Romanian Communist Party in Bucharest during the anti-communist revolution. Th more...

It was on this day, 26th April, back in 1986 when the worst nuclear accident in history occurred, the Chernobyl disaster. The Chernobyl Nuclear Power more...

This photo was taken in Beijing on June 5th, 1989 and is one of the most iconic images of the 20th century. The photo was taken at the north edge of more...
This brilliant photo was taken in India back in 1981, and features an ox-driven cart, carrying a satellite. It was taken during the early years of In more...

It was on this day, 14th June back in 1982 when the Falklands War ended following Britain accepting Argentina's surrender. The conditional surre more...
It was on this day, 13th June back in 1981 when a 17-year-old pulled a gun and fired six shots at the Queen during the annual Trooping the Colour cere more...
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