Late-eighties Britain is rocked by the Hungerford shooting and the Marchioness boat tragedy, while the nineties close out with President Clinton’s historic televised confession and his military strikes on Osama bin Laden. The new millennium brings its own dark chapters, marked by the tragic loss of the Russian Kursk submarine and the violent fall of Gaddafi in Libya. But among the heavy headlines of conflict and cover-ups, there are signs of progress, as the revolutionary drug AZT takes the first major step toward managing the global HIV crisis. Explore all this and more in this week’s archive snapshot.
