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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LONDON (Reuters) - What do John Lennon, Margaret Thatcher, Henry VIII and West Indian immigrants in 1956 London have in common? They are all, according to British historian Simon Schama, part of "The ...

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 ...

From images of naval hero Francis Drake to iconic photographs of Princess Diana, the craving for celebrity fuels the British psyche. Simon Schama looks at portraits of the famous and asks what the ...

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 ...

While most portraits have been of the great and the good who pay to be flattered, some artists have taken all of humanity as their subject. Historian Simon Schama looks at those who have plunged into ...

Schama, 61, was born in 1945 and raised in England, where his Jewish immigrant family -- his father was a textile merchant -- had sought refuge. He read history at Cambridge but found himself tempted ...