Episode
Antiques Roadshow: British Museum
Overview
Fiona Bruce and the team set up camp for another busy day as thousands of visitors bring their own treasures to the forecourt of the British Museum in London. It's a timely visit, as Fiona reflects on the A History of the World project. Meanwhile, the experts are kept busy with an intriguing array of objects including a pair of wooden pillars from HMS Victory that are thought to have witnessed the Battle of Trafalgar, and a dandy's outfit from the early 18th century. Plus the team meet an 8-year-old boy whose personal collection includes an MBE.
Details
- Series
- Antiques Roadshow
- Season
- Season 33
- Episode
- Episode 8
- Air date
- 2010-11-07
- Runtime
- 58 min
Episode context
British Museum is Episode 8 in Series 33 of Antiques Roadshow. It aired on 2010-11-07. The runtime is 58 min.
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Episode 7: Hopetoun House
Fiona Bruce and the team of experts return for a second visit to Hopetoun House in Queensferry, Scotland, where the finds include Victorian dresses worn by royalty, a 16th century silver jewel box, and a photograph of the Forth Bridge that the Nazis used for propaganda during World War Two.
Episode 9: Tatton Park (1)
Fiona Bruce and the team of experts welcome thousands of visitors to the gardens of Tatton Park in Cheshire. Henry Sandon has a memorable day when one of the rarest 18th century pieces of Royal Worcester turns up. Other finds include a box of the world's most valuable and beautiful diamonds, that aren't quite what they appear to be, and an old box of golf balls with a value that's definitely not below par.
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Episode 11: Hatfield
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Episode 2: Beverley Minster (2)
Fiona Bruce and the team are back for a second visit to Beverley Minster in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Hundreds of visitors pack the nave eager to see the experts. Amongst the objects caught on camera are a pair of valuable medical leech jars once used to bleed patients, a curious sideboard that hides secret drawers that took the owners thirty years to find, and a ring with a locket containing the hair of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Episode 12: Chatsworth
Fiona Bruce and the team of experts head to Derbyshire, where thousands await them at Chatsworth House for another busy day. Amongst the pieces intriguing the experts are a rare boxing tile commemorating one of the biggest bare knuckle fights, a portrait painted by Stanley Spencer and brought in by the model, while an Egyptian head found buried in a Derby garden surprises everyone.
Episode 1: Beverley Minster
Fiona Bruce and the team of experts visit Beverley Minster in Yorkshire. Pieces under scrutiny include a valuable medieval ring dug up on a farm; two Victorian paintings given in exchange for a gambling debt; and a car rescued from a pig farm's outbuilding, which turns out to be a former rally winner once driven by Stirling Moss.
Episode 13: Chatsworth 2
Fiona Bruce and the team pay a second visit to Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, where the experts are kept busy as more family treasures are brought from miles around. Cameras hone in on a painting thought to be by Constable, but is it genuine? And lost designs surface for exotic jewellery made by Cartier in the mid-20th century.
Episode 14: Blair Castle
Fiona Bruce and the team head for Blair Castle, near Pitlochry in Scotland, where the treasures include a chair once used by Einstein, a necklace made from stags' teeth, and a rare and valuable watch with no hands.
Episode 15: Hampton Court Castle 1