A History of the World in 100 Objects: Admonitions Scroll

Director of the British Museum Neil MacGregor retells the history of human development from the first stone axe to the credit card, using 100 selected objects from the Museum. Neil examines a Chinese painting based on a poem that attempts to define the proper behaviour for women during the tumultuous time that followed the collapse of the Han Empire. This 11-foot-long scroll offers a guide to manners along well established Confucian principles. Neil tells the story of the scroll and finds out what it is was about women's behaviour that was so worrying men of the period. With historian Shane McCausland, politician Charles Powell and Chinese art expert Jan Stuart