SERIES
Mass Production, Mass Persuasion (1780 - 1914 AD)
Neil MacGregor uses five objects to highlight the shifts in the balance of economic, political and imperial power in the C19th - and the enormous consequences across the rest of the world.
First Broadcast11 Oct 2010
Latest Broadcast16 Oct 2010
Episodes5
Categories
History
Episodes
5 items available
EPISODE
A History of the World in 100 Objects
Neil MacGregor tells the story of the global trade in tea - with a Victorian tea set.
Oct 2010
EPISODE
A History of the World in 100 Objects
Neil MacGregor with a familiar image - Hokusai's The Great Wave.
Oct 2010
EPISODE
A History of the World in 100 Objects
Neil MacGregor with the chronometer that accompanied Darwin to South America.
Oct 2010
EPISODE
A History of the World in 100 Objects
Neil MacGregor with a wooden drum from Sudan that Kitchener presented to Queen Victoria.
Oct 2010
EPISODE
A History of the World in 100 Objects
Neil MacGregor with a penny coin defaced by suffragettes with the words "Votes for women".
Oct 2010