Bring us your objects

Have you made it to an A History of the World event this week? There have been special days in museums around the country. Several of them included an area where you could bring along your object and add it to the site, and we've had almost two hundred objects uploaded by people visiting the events.

One of the most interesting was an example of a forgotten British invention. Beryl Knight brought in a salt and pepper set made from Bandalasta, a forerunner to plastics and formica, which her father had helped invent in Birmingham. Watch the video to hear Beryl explain why Bandalasta sadly wasn't to become another British success story.

Other objects we saw included a calcium carbide lamp in Teesside, a Sunday schools commemorative medal in Leicester, a record of King Edward VIII's abdication in Berkshire, an English concertina in Gloucester, a World War One trench telephone in Lincolnshire and, at the event organised by BBC Radio Solent, some slightly ghoulish looking pieces of Victorian dolls.

There are still a few final events on this weekend in Luton, Carlisle, Canterbury and Manchester.

And finally, here are a couple of photos of the day in Gloucester City Museum - click through to see more. Though I'm not sure if you find out where all that blood came from. Then again, I'm not sure I want to know.