Designing A History of The World, inspiring article by James Boardwell

The BBC contacted Rattle in Spring 2009 to help them think through different audience propositions for what is now A History of The World, a landmark series on Radio 4 produced in conjunction with the British Museum. The basic premise of the programme is to provide a history of the world through objects, including 100 [...]

Digital museum’s object lesson in NI history

The BBC has teamed up with museums across Great Britain and Northern Ireland for an ambitious multi-media history project. A History of the World aims to collect objects with local and global resonances, with a hope of providing different perspectives on the events which shaped our world. The centrepiece of the project is a landmark [...]