Established in 1939, BBC Monitoring gathers open-source intelligence from around the world, monitoring and translating radio, television, telegraph, print and other media from nearly every country and political entity. The database provides a source of 20th-century political, social, cultural, and economic history. With coverage from the start of World War II to 2001, this archive includes first-hand, real-time coverage of people, places, global events, key regions, and national security priorities of the UK government, including WWII, the Cold War, Communist China, Chernobyl, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union/Russia.