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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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A History of the World in 100 Objects: Mass Production, Mass Persuasion (1780 - 1914 AD): Ship's chronometer from HMS Beagle

Ship's chronometer from HMS Beagle

Mass Production, Mass Persuasion (1780 - 1914 AD)

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Neil MacGregor with a chronometer that accompanied Darwin to South America.

Neil MacGregor is looking at the global economy in the 19th Century. Today he is with the chronometer that accompanied Darwin to South America.

Neil MacGregor's history of the world as told through things. Throughout this week he is examining the global economy of the 19th century - of mass production and mass consumption. Today he is with an instrument that first helped Europeans to navigate with precision around the world - a marine chronometer. The one Neil has chosen actually accompanied Darwin on his great voyage to South America and the Galapagos Islands - a journey that was to help lead him to his revolutionary theories on evolution.
The geographer Nigel Thrift and the geneticist Steve Jones celebrate the chronometer and the profound changes it prompted.

Producer: Anthony Denselow


A History of the World in 100 Objects: Mass Production, Mass Persuasion (1780 - 1914 AD)

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How industrialisation, mass politics and imperial ambitions changed the world.

Neil MacGregor uses five objects to highlight the world-wide consequences of shifts in the balance of economic, political and imperial power in the 19th century.

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