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The events of 1950-1999 are described by the people who saw them happen, from the Festival of Britain in 1951 through to the dawn of a new millennium at the end of 1999. In between are the eras of the Angry Young Men, the Teddy Boys and the Punk Rockers; the arrival of rock and roll and the permissive society; the advent of industrial strife in England and sectarian unrest in Northern Ireland; the rise to power of Margaret Thatcher; the miners' strike, three-day week and Winter of Discontent; the Queen's Silver Jubilee....

Des archives qui révèlent bien des mystères... Disparitions fantaisistes, phénomènes paranormaux, maisons hantées, apparitions... l'histoire de France regorge d'affaires mystérieuses non résolues. Au cœur des archives de France, le journaliste David Galley, déjà auteur de La France Mystérieuse, mène des enquêtes passionnantes pour tenter de résoudre de mystérieuses affaires qui ont fait sensation. Un tour de France du bizarre et de l'étrange.

Over the span of two hundred years, Great Britain established, governed, lost, and reconstructed an empire that embraced three continents and two oceanic worlds. The British ruled this empire by correlating incoming information about the conduct of subjects and aliens in imperial spaces with norms of good governance developed in London. Officials derived these norms by studying the histories of government contained in the official records of both the state and corporations and located in repositories known as archives.

In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Jewish historian Zosa Szajkowski gathered up tens of thousands of documents from Nazi buildings in Berlin and, later, public archives and private synagogues in France and moved them all, illicitly, to New York. In The Archive Thief, Lisa Moses Leff reconstructs Szajkowski's story in all its ambiguity. Born into poverty in Russian Poland, Szajkowski first made his name in Paris as a communist journalist.

1982 was a historic year, a year in which the battle for a small group of islands in the South Atlantic dominated the news. From the initial broadcasts of the growing Argentine threat and Mrs Thatcher's speech to the Commons informing them that a Task Force will sail, to the battles for Goose Green and Port Stanley, the Argentine surrender and the controversial sinking of the Belgrano—all these historic moments, together with all the other important events of the Falklands War, are recorded here, in live BBC Radio News coverage.

"Grâce à ce qu'on appelait alors le "poste", les Français ont pu suivre, la plupart du temps en famille, tous les grands évènements de leur époque. Tantôt heureux, tantôt tristes. "La Librairie sonore" nous livre ici, une anthologie de 92 de ces instants historiques.

Das Ministerium für Staatssicherheit der DDR: Schaltstelle zur Überwachung der Bürger und Archiv für Dokumente der Kontrolle und Bespitzelung. Was bis heute nicht nach außen drang, sind die Mitschnitte von Vernehmungen und unzähligen Anrufen aus DDR und BRD, um Mitbürger zu denunzieren: mögliche Grenzflüchtige, unerlaubte Warensendungen, mangelnde Gesinnung. Doch es gibt auch die andere Seite, die Sabotage.