{"id":141,"date":"2012-02-20T10:28:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T10:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/?p=141"},"modified":"2015-10-02T22:46:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T21:46:45","slug":"tv-series-empire-on-bbc-one-starts-27-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"TV Series: Empire on BBC One starts 27 February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Empire<\/em> is\u00a0a major five-part series telling the story of the British Empire in a new way, tracing not only the rise and fall of the Empire but also the complex effects of the Empire on the modern world \u2013 political, technological and social \u2013 and on Britain.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/Arts\/a326\/index.shtml\" >Empire: 1492-1975<\/a>\u00a0(A326) module team assisted in the preparation of the series and some of the content and activities associated with it. Karl Hack, A326 chair, wrote the text for the free\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.edu\/openlearn\/history-the-arts\/history\/social-economic-history\/order-your-free-empire-poster\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.open.edu');\">wallchart<\/a>\u00a0to accompany the series.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.edu\/openlearn\/history-the-arts\/history\/world-history\/rsvp-empire\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.open.edu');\">RSVP Empire<\/a>, an interactive Empire themed activity, was written by A326 Associate Lecturer, John Kirkaldy.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more, order a free Empire poster or play Empire interactive, go to:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/openlearn\/empire\" >www.open.ac.uk\/openlearn\/empire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Empire is\u00a0a major five-part series telling the story of the British Empire in a new way, tracing not only the rise and fall of the Empire but also the complex effects of the Empire on the modern world \u2013 political, technological and social \u2013 and on Britain. Members of the\u00a0Empire: 1492-1975\u00a0(A326) module team assisted in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/?p=141\" class=\"more-link\" >Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;TV Series: Empire on BBC One starts 27 February&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}