Editor's note: In what was considered a "radical" choice, Bob Dylan was announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature on Oct. 13, 2016. Read the story here. What’s the most innovative year ...

When baby boomers born in the 1950s got their driver's licenses, many of them wanted a 1957 Chevy. Nothing represented "cool" better than a '57, regardless if it was a top of the line Bel Air, a Nomad ...

From the nuclear threat to LSD and women’s liberation, this is music writing as social history The pop music you hear in your teenage years affects you more deeply than at any other time in your life.

PAULA NEWTON, INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: And now, to the Black Power movement and the year that redefined America’s fight for civil rights. In 1966, journalist and critically acclaimed author Mark ...

On the 50th anniversary of the final, we speak to organisers, fans and players who recall that what is now looked upon as England’s finest hour was actually a poorly arranged and often sparsely ...

With the United States ever more involved in the conflict with Vietnam, football returned to the country that invented the game 103 years earlier -- England. Brazil and Italy were the two big name ...

Duff Thomas: 1966 did not provide a focal point for the Civil Rights Movement. The closest occasion for pulling together interest came when James Meredith, the first Negro to attend the University of ...

Announcer: Vietnam was unknown to most Americans only a few years ago. In 1966, Vietnam was the year’s biggest story. There where other news were the places and events, civil rights, Congress, ...

A few years ago I was asked to write a memoir of my favourite year in pop music: 1965. Of course, we know that the 1960s is such a fertile decade that almost any year could be mined for spectacular ...