Mass Production, Mass Persuasion

Neil MacGregor retells humanity's history through the objects it has made.

This week he explores how industrialisation, mass politics and imperial ambitions changed the world.

The objects - from England, Japan and Sudan - include:

- Ship's chronometer from HMS Beagle
- Early Victorian tea set
- Hokusai's The Great Wave
- Sudanese slit drum
- Suffragette-defaced penny