The name’s Schama, Simon Schama . . . Schaken, not Schtirred. Telly’s foremost cultural historian is nursing a soft spot for literature’s most politically incorrect spy. Drooling over a ...

At one point during Simon Schama’s Story of Us (BBC Two), the historian listed some of the people who made programmes for the ...

(JTA) — British Jewish historian Simon Schama was awarded a knighthood ... and art history at Columbia University. Schama retweeted the royal family’s photograph of him being knighted, writing ...

Simon Schama’s Story of Us. 9pm, BBC Two. The historian continues his heartfelt documentary series about the divided times we ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It’s often said that we live in unprecedented times. But as the historian Simon Schama notes in his ...

Ep. 1/3 - Who Are We Now? Simon Schama standing on the roof of a building in Whitechapel, London. (Image: Oxford Films and Television Ltd) In these divided times, where do we find the threads that ...

"A generation without history is a generation that not only loses a nation’s memory but loses a sense of what it’s like to be ...

In this interview, historian Simon Schama describes his writing process and how he was drawn to George Parkman's murder. The history of Boston means the Parkman family, one way or another.