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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...