A History of the World in a Hundred Objects

A history of the world in a hundred objects. The original series involved teams of people, both inside and outside the british museum, working over years. Object 100 was a solar powered lamp and mobile phone charger made in china,. It seemed said to give many of the poorest in the world a new level of control over their lives. But those ten years have also been turbulent and tragic. So i decided that the only practical way was to ask a small group of people to help me identify object one o one. Video conferencing software has, as we've all discovered, changed all that. And within a few days, i was welcoming the dream team to my screen at home