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What was your 100th object?
Tomorrow we will find out what the British Museum has chosen for its 100th object. It will be one of the five contenders that have been announced over the course of the last week: a football...
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Revealing the 100th object
======================= UPDATE - 11.32AM 14.10.2010 ======================== Watch a video of Neil MacGregor unveiling the 100th object in the British Museum and live on the Today programme....
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Evan Davis introduces Neil MacGregor, announcing the British Museum's 100th object live on the Today programme and unveiling the object in its display box. In order to see this content you need to...
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So now you know...
... it’s a solar-powered lamp and charger. Like many of you – I’m sure – I was eagerly awaiting the unveiling of the artefact that would tell the final chapter in our history of the world in 100...
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Weekly theme: The world of our making
So, this is it: after 10 months, 95 objects and 1,425 minutes of history on the radio, it’s the final week and our story has at last caught up with us.But what a story… the past century has brought...
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Looking back at the BBC
We’ve had a number of curators on the blog over the last few months looking at objects from their own collection as well as ones added by you. Then someone pointed out that the BBC has its own...
View Article100 objects in five minutes
So that's it. That's all 100 objects. All finished. Two million years of human history in just 100 things that our ancestors made and left behind. So which was your favourite object? You can't...
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Listening again to A History of the World
Since the series ended on Friday, we’ve had a few questions about how long the programmes will be available for and the best way to get hold of them. The good news is that all the programmes – every...
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Epic history brought to book
So last night was the launch of the official book of the series. I managed to snag a ticket to the event at the British Museum in which Neil MacGregor and Mark Damazer looked back at how the series...
View ArticleObject lessons for schools
Since September we've been inviting schools to take part in the Relic Challenge. The idea is to get kids talking about objects from their homes and seeing how they can be used to look at history....
View ArticleIt's nice to be nominated
The end of the year approaches and with it the awards season. We are off to the British Interactive Media Awards tonight, where A History of the World is nominated in two categories: Integrated...
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Awards: a shoe and a mask
So we didn’t pick up an award at the BIMAs last week. We lost out to the create-a-logo project Recode Decode from the V&A and the first-person, public information film on YouTube about knife crime...
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A History of Cornwall in 100 Objects
What comes to mind when you think of Cornwall? Sandy beaches? Fishing? Rick Stein? That’s the popular image: sleepy fishing villages and crowded beaches. But how about soap? Did you know that Mr Pears...
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The Art Fund announces long list
We’re very excited to discover that the British Museum has made it onto the long list for this year’s Art Fund Prize for A History of the World.The prize is awarded each year and aims to “recognise...
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A History of the World wins Art Fund Prize for the British Museum
This morning, despite a colossal downpour in central London, I whistled my way into work following the announcement last night that the British Museum had won the Art Fund Prize for Museum of the...
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