Simon Schama

...national identity. And history responded in kind, with projects such as Norman Davies's monumental chronicle of The Isles and Simon Schama's landmark TV series, A History of Britain. Not much of that is on offer now. But by chance, a...

In this article: Britain, Conservatism, Pimms, Radicalism, Internationalism, Recession, Staycation, and Saint Patrick

...made you want to know more, and sometimes even made the bored girls laugh? I remember hearing accounts of Simon Schama teaching at Harvard back in the Eighties: he was the same mental fire-raiser and syntactical Fred Astaire long before he...

In this article: History, Andrew Marr, Siegfried Sassoon, Britain, BBC Two, Military Cross, Second World War, and Harvard

They will perform as part of the festival's Pacific Blue Festival Club lineup. The biennial festival's Writers and Readers Week will include British historian and art critic Simon Schama, best known for his BBC series A History of Britain.

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...a guest list that reads like a who's who of American letters, including Toni Morrison, Joan Didion, Jeffrey Eugenides, Simon Schama, Robert Hughes, Henry Louis Gates Jr., William Kennedy, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Jhumpa Lahiri,...

In this article: Lawrence Schiller, Toni Morrison, Joan Didion, Norman Mailer, Provincetown, Massachusetts, David Halberstam, Robert Hughes, and Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Professor and history author Simon Schama appears at the National Book Festival. Speaker Biography: Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University. He taught history at Cambridge and Oxford...

In this article: Art history, Columbia University, National Academy of Arts, Harvard, PBS, Oxford, Cambridge, and Netherlands

...he lives with his wife, Deary writes anything between 2,000 and 8,000 words a day. By the way, if either Simon Schama or David Starkey are reading this, they should cover their eyes now. "I am not a historian. I am a children's author,"...

In this article: Terry Deary, Horrible Histories, David Starkey, Sunderland, Waste, First World War, Corn Laws, Henry VIII, and Prince Charles

Vintage GBP9.99 (400pp) (free p&p) from the Independent Bookshop: 08430 600 030 The American Future, By Simon Schama The Jiminy Cricket lookalike who pops up on virtually a daily basis to explain America for the BBC is Professor of Art...

In this article: Cicero, Columbia University, George Bush, Barack Obama, and BBC

...book review was printed in reverse. The painting, Henry Mosler's "The Birth of the Flag," is printed correctly here. Who does Simon Schama think he is? The Columbia University historian seems to have few intellectual limits and to require...

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...have encountered in years. If that suggests the author is looking at something the rest of us may be ignoring, you're right: Simon Schama has located The American Future (Ecco) deep in the American past. The book, like some others by the...

In this article: Montgomery C. Meigs, Consumerism, Bankruptcy, U.S. Military Academy, Civil War, and Nasdaq

Navigation - link to other main sections from here Simon Schama raves about John Donne Donne, Milton and a man who can't stop swearing: truly all human life is on television Simon Schama's John Donne (BBC Two) Armando Iannucci:...

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