  Boost-rotation symmetric spacetimes are the only locally asymptotically flat
axially symmetric electrovacuum spacetimes with a further symmetry that are
radiative. They are realized by uniformly accelerated particles of various
kinds or black holes. Their general properties are summarized. Several examples
of boost-rotation symmetric solutions of the Maxwell and Einstein equations are
studied: uniformly accelerated electric and magnetic multipoles, the
Bonnor-Swaminarayan solutions, the C-metric and the spinning C-metric.
