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: Sudanese Slit Drum

Series 1, episode 94

Neil MacGregor examines a wooden buffalo-shaped drum brought from Sudan for Queen Victoria by Horatio Kitchener, which was captured following a battle involving the British and Egyptian army near Khartoum in 1898. With contributions by writer Dominic Green and broadcaster Zeinab Badawi