Samurai: the legendary Japanese warriors

Featuring: Dr Rosina Buckland, Curator of Japanese Collections in the Department of Asia at the British Museum and Lead Curator of the Samurai exhibition; Joe Nickols, curator in the Japan section of the British Museum, co-ordinating the Samurai exhibition; and Prof Oleg Benesch, Professor of Modern History and Head of the Department of History at the University of York, who specialises in the history of Japan and China in a global context.

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Samurai: the legendary Japanese warriors is an episode from Talking History Highlights.

This episode is 00:54:00 long.

This episode was published on Mar 29, 2026.

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