A soldier rushes to his death on a battlefield thousands of miles from his home. Who sent him here? An office worker makes her way home, but she's lost her job and she's not sure he can still pay the mortgage. What forces combined to change her life today?

An immigrant is kicked to death in the street, killed by people who still worship Adolf Hitler. When did such people become part of our political landscape?

Who, what, why, when...these are the questions that our new series Timeline seeks to answer.

In up-coming programmes we'll explaining the rootsHome of the conflictsHome in Afghanistan and Palestine, the causes of economic crises and the origins of fascism.

ItsHome said that history is written by the victors.  But Timeline is citizen's history. Timeline is history which includes us all, the poor and powerless as well as the Kings, captains of industry and government ministers.

We've made Timeline because we believe that knowledge is power, a power that no-one should be without. You can't understand the present if you don't understand the past. So join us on Timeline...