At one point during Simon Schama’s Story of Us (BBC Two), the historian listed some of the people who made programmes for the BBC’s groundbreaking Open Door series. “Vegans, anarchists, feminists, ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was a year ago that historian Simon Schama guided History Channel viewers through the first one-third of his history of Britain. He returns this week to tell the middle portion of the story, a saga ...

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 ...

And out came, among other television ventures, a ridiculously ambitious turn-of-the-millennium series for the BBC called "A History of Britain" that did really well: The 15-part epic netted the BBC a ...

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 ...

Lately, Britain’s globe-trotting, crowd-pleasing telechefs have been losing air time (and book sales) to a new breed of celebrity: the telehistorian, serving up entertaining, easy-to-digest lessons ...

TV historian Simon Schama was yesterday appointed by the coalition government as an advisor on education. Education secretary Michael Gove announced that Schama, the renowned academic who presents the ...