Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Historian Simon Schama - BBC At one point during Simon Schama’s Story of Us (BBC Two), the historian listed some of the people who ...

Simon Schama explores the history of British portraiture. Simon looks at the eternal power of portraiture and sees how it can foster loyalty and control. Simon Schama explores the history of British ...

The historian continues his heartfelt documentary series about the divided times we are currently living through, a splintered common culture that leaves us all “imprisoned in our little identity ...

Stretching from the Stone Age to the year 2000, Simon Schama's Complete History of Britain does not pretend to be a definitive chronicle of the turbulent events which buffeted and shaped the British ...

The secret of who we are. Simon Schama journeys through 5,000 years of life in the British Isles. ...Schama. Forces of Nature. Why the British proved immune to the siren call of liberty, equality and ...

Part I: The face of power. The face of Britain ; Saviours ; Reins of power ; Bigwigs ; Attack portraiture ; Family album ; Absent one cigar -- Part II: The face of love. Shadow love ; Kenelm and ...

In response to a declaration by the last royal governor of Virginia that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the King would be emancipated, tens of thousands of slaves--Americans who clung to ...

LONDON (AP) -- Simon Schama apologizes. He's running late because he's ``deeply'' into filming the third installment of his ``A History of Britain.'' The first six episodes of this dramatically ...

TV historian Simon Schama has blasted Julien Fellowes's Golden Globe-winning Downton Abbey in an article for Newsweek. Schama branded the ITV1 period drama "cultural necrophilia" and was highly ...

Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History. He taught history at Cambridge (1966-76), Oxford (1976-1980) and art history and history at Harvard (1980-1993) before coming to ...

Simon Schama explores the history of British portraiture, revealing the stories behind the most compelling images in British art and examining the ways portraiture is used to make a statement.