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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: The World of Our Making (1914 - 2010 AD): Russian revolutionary plate

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Neil MacGregor nears the end of his world history - with a Russian revolutionary plate.

Neil MacGregor is exploring the political landscape of the 20th century. Today he is with a plate decorated during the Russian revolution

Neil MacGregor's history of the world as told through things that time has left behind. Throughout this closing week he is examining some of the major social and political movements that have helped shape our contemporary landscape. Today he tells the remarkable story of a Russian plate. It was made in 1901 in the Imperial Porcelain Factory in St Petersburg. Twenty years later it was painted over as a propaganda tool for the new Communist Revolution - decorated in the same factory that had become the State Porcelain Factory and in a city renamed as Petrograd. The director of the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Mikhail Piotrovsky, and the great historian of modern Russia, Eric Hobsbawn, help piece together this momentous history.

Producer: Anthony Denselow


A History of the World in 100 Objects: The World of Our Making (1914 - 2010 AD)

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Neil MacGregor explores aspects of contemporary sexual, political and economic history.

Neil MacGregor concludes the series with five objects whose stories explore different aspects of our world from plastics to propaganda, sexual revolutions to war.

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