A History of the World in 100 Objects Omnibus
The British Museum's Neil MacGregor presents. Catch up on a week's programmes and explore how five artefacts tell a story of civilisations and connections.
A History of the World in 100 Objects Omnibus - After the Ice Age
Neil MacGregor, the Director of the British Museum, presents an omnibus edition of five more items in his history of humanity as told through the objects it has made.
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A History of the World in 100 Objects Omnibus - Ancient Pleasures, Modern Spice (AD 1 - 500)
Neil MacGregor presents five more items in his history of humanity as told through the objects it has made, exploring the pursuit of pleasure 2,000 years ago.
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A History of the World in 100 Objects Omnibus - Empire Builders (300 BC - AD 10)
Neil MacGregor presents an omnibus edition of five more items in his history of human development, exploring the lives of powerful rulers around the world 2,000 years ago.
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A History of the World in 100 Objects Omnibus - Exploration, Exploitation and Englightenment (AD 1680-1820)
Neil MacGregor presents an omnibus edition of his global history told through objects. This week: the age of enlightment when science and philosophy flourished.
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A History of the World in 100 Objects Omnibus - First Global Economy (AD 1450-1600)
Neil MacGregor presents an omnibus edition of his global history told through objects. This week: objects that speak of the first global economies.
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A History of the World in 100 Objects Omnibus - Inside the Palace: Secrets at Court (AD 700 - 800)
Neil MacGregor continues his global history as told through objects from the British Museum's collection, exploring the private lives of the powerful.
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A History of the World in 100 Objects Omnibus - Making Us Human
Neil MacGregor, the Director of the British Museum, presents an omnibus edition of the first five items in his history of humanity as told through the objects it has made.
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A History of the World in 100 Objects Omnibus - Mass Production, Mass Persuasion (AD 1780-1914)
Neil MacGregor presents an omnibus edition of his global history told through objects. This week, the transformation from agricultural to industrial economies.
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A History of the World in 100 Objects Omnibus - Meeting the Gods
Neil MacGregor continues his global history, exploring the ways that people expressed religious yearning in the 14th and 15th centuries.
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A History of the World in 100 Objects Omnibus - Old World, New Powers
Neil MacGregor presents an omnibus edition of five more items in his history of human development, exploring power struggles across the world 3,000 years ago.
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A History of the World in 100 Objects Omnibus - Pilgrims, Raiders and Traders (AD 800 - 1300)
Neil MacGregor continues his global history, focusing on the traders, pilgrims and raiders who swept across Europe and Asia between the 9th and 13th century.
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A History of the World in 100 Objects Omnibus - Status Symbols (AD 1100 - 1500)
Neil MacGregor continues his global history, shedding light on some of the great status symbols of taste and power owned by the wealthy and well-informed around 700 years ago.
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A History of the World in 100 Objects Omnibus - The Beginnings of Science and Literature
Neil MacGregor presents an omnibus edition of five more items in his history of human development, investigating self expression through words and numbers.
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A History of the World in 100 Objects Omnibus - The First Cities and States
Neil MacGregor presents an omnibus edition of five more items in his history of human development, investigating the impact of the world's first cities.
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A History of the World in 100 Objects Omnibus - The Rise Of World Faiths (AD 100 - 600)
Neil MacGregor explores the way the world's great religions began to perfect a way to visually express the divine, less than 2,000 years ago.
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A History of the World in 100 Objects Omnibus - The Silk Road and Beyond (AD 400 - 800)
Neil MacGregor presents an omnibus edition of five more items in his history of humanity, exploring the world along and beyond the Silk Road in the 7th century AD.
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A History of the World in 100 Objects Omnibus - The World in the Age of Confucius
Neil MacGregor of the British Museum presents five further items in his history of humanity told through objects, exploring the emergence of new cultures and new rulers.
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A History of the World in 100 Objects Omnibus - The World of Our Making (AD 1914-2010)
Neil MacGregor completes his long history of humanity, told through the objects it has made. In the final programme he brings us up to date with 20th & 21st century objects.
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A History of the World in 100 Objects Omnibus - Threshold of the Modern World (AD 1375-1550)
Neil MacGregor returns with an omnibus edition of his global history told through objects. This week: the great empires that dominated the world around the 15th century.
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A History of the World in 100 Objects Omnibus - Tolerance and Intolerance (AD 1550-1700)
Neil MacGregor presents an omnibus edition of his global history told through objects. This week he looks at the great religions of the 16th & 17th centuries.
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