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A History of the World in 100 Objects

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Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, retells humanity's history through objects

Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, narrates 100 programmes that retell humanity's history through the objects we have made.

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Neil MacGregor and an ancient Chinese scroll that rules on how women should behave.

The history of the world as told through objects arrives in China 1500 years ago. Neil MacGregor and an ancient scroll painting and poem that rules on female behaviour.

Throughout this week, Neil MacGregor has been exploring pleasure and recreation across the world of 200 years ago. Today he arrives in China to explore a painting based on a poem that attempts to define the proper behaviour for women during the tumultuous time that followed the collapse of the Han Empire. This eleven foot long scroll offers a guide to manners along well established Confucian principles. Neil MacGregor tells the story of the scroll and finds out what it is was about women's behaviour that was so worrying men of the period. The historian Shane McCausland, the politician Charles Powell, and the Chinese art expert Jan Stuart help paint the picture. 

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A History of the World in 100 Objects: Ancient Pleasures, Modern Spice (1 - 600 AD)

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Neil MacGregor explores the ways in which people sought pleasure 2,000 years ago

Throughout this week Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, explores the ways in which people sought pleasure around the world 2,000 years ago: from pipe smoking to sex

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