‘Your Paintings’ puts the UK’s complete oil painting collection online

  Your Paintings is a new web initiative by the #BBC in partnership with the Public Catalogue Foundation. It aims to put the nation’s complete oil painting collection online. “The UK holds in its galleries & civic buildings one of the largest collections of oil paintings in the world, a treasure trove of tens of [...]

3D Interactive Documentary Explorer

The 3D Documentary Explorer is a radical new way of telling the story of The Virtual Revolution, using video clips from the first two episodes of the series.Once you click to launch the Explorer, press pause or play to move between ‘Watch’ and ‘Explore’ modes. In ‘Explore’ mode, click the arrows to the right and [...]

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 [...]

BBC and the British Museum creates ‘A History of the World in 100 Objects’

The BBC and the British Museum have joined forces in an original and unprecedented public service partnership, focusing on world history. At its heart is a landmark series on BBC Radio 4, ‘A History of the World in 100 Objects’ which will broadcast from 18 January 2010. This series is a narrative global history told [...]

Happy Birthday, Isaac Newton!

Though he’s known to schoolchildren to world over as the recipient of a nasty bump on the head from a falling apple – the true origin of Newton’s conceptualization of gravity comes from a little higher in the sky. So, in honor of Sir Newton’s birthday, here’s a short clip from the BBC explaining how [...]