Comments on: A History of the World in 100 Objects

By: Joanna Clark

Joanna Clark — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:31:23 +0000

I have a metal dog collar on which it says “If on my Collar Look to See Whose Dog I be I am JOHN COULMANS Dog and no Prest man You See Iam Entered on Bord the——-A Volunteer for Life both to Serve my Master and his Good Wife 1771.” We do not know anything about John Coulman. My grandmother found this collar in Brecon, mid Wales in the 1920s or 1930s. It is interesting as it shows a little about sailing in the 1700s.

By: mike wetherill

mike wetherill — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:30:09 +0000

Fascinating piece on Croesus. You might mentioned, however, that chrusos (approximate transcription)is Greek for gold…

By: Dan Colman

Dan Colman — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:03:48 +0000

Hi Sarah, Interesting points that you’re making here. Do you have a blog post where you elaborate on them?

Thanks,
Dan

By: Sarah Louise

Sarah Louise — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:14:24 +0000

thanks for this, and it certainly is a totally wonderful and important series. Huge & important expansion of the cultural commons. However I am concerned, and have blogged, that it is at least in part about strengthening the case for keeping the objects in the BM, as it is about what they have to tell us, and this should be part of the discourse about the programme. Despite all the glitz, I think the very technology used actually makes the opposite case.

By: Abimbola Akanwo

Abimbola Akanwo — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:58:08 +0000

Thank you for this post on the “History of the World in 100 objects”…

A quality programme…

By: Malcolm Bellamy

Malcolm Bellamy — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:10:27 +0000

Thank you for this.. I grew up in London and would often visit the British Museum which was just a bus ride from my secondary school. I knew it was a bit special and that I was surrounded by cultural artefacts from around the world. I never realised that something as simple as the stone axes which I probably rushed by in order to see the Aztec exhibition or the ancient Egyptian Gallery, were, without doubt the most successful technological invention in the history of man. Well done B.B.C. and the British Museum and well done Open Culture for publicising these programmes and the website that goes along with it.