A History of the World in 100 Objects is a History Documentary programme.

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A History of the World in 100 Objects: Hoxne Pepper Pot

Series 1, episode 40

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 looks at how the elite in Roman Britain developed a taste for luxury goods and good living in the years before their demise. He tells the story through a silver pepper pot that was discovered as part of a buried hoard, hidden possibly by Romans on the run. He describes the ambitions of the elite in Roman Britain and how they satisfied their particular taste for pepper, with contributions from the food writer Christine McFadden and historian Roberta Tomber