Simon Schama

Timothy West reads the third and concluding volume of award-winning historian Simon Schama's compelling chronicle of the British Isles....

From one of the truly preeminent historians of our time, this is a landmark book chronicling the French Revolution. Simon Schama deftly refutes the contemporary notion that the French Revolution represented an uprising of the oppressed poor against a decadent aristocracy and corrupt court....

Simon Schama explores the mysterious contradictions of the Dutch nation that invented itself from the ground up, attained an unprecedented level of affluence, and lived in constant dread of being corrupted by happiness.

It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life against the steepest of odds....

Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19....

Timothy West reads the second volume of Simon Schama's compelling chronicle of the British Isles....

In this New York Times best seller, award-winning author Simon Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technology - a strikingly fresh view of Louis XVI's France....

From one of the truly preeminent historians of our time, this is a landmark book chronicling the French Revolution....

Told in the voices of the slaves and the white abolitionists who aided them, Simon Schama vividly details the odyssey of these escaped blacks, shedding light on an extraordinary chapter in America's birth....

The story of Britain from the earliest settlements in 3000BC to the death of Elizabeth I in 1603....

¿Fue la libertad la causa o el producto de la Revolución francesa? La mejor crónica sobre uno de los periodos estelares de la humanidad....

Simon Schama has written a tour de force about British portraits over the centuries in which the image-maker, the subject and everyone else looking on are brought to life....

A new and vibrant cultural history, investigating the tangled and complex history of pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian Simon Schama....

Belonging is a magnificent cultural history abundantly alive with energy, character and colour....

Acclaimed historian and author Simon Schama offers an essential historical perspective on the crucial 2008 presidential election and its importance for reclaiming America's original ideal....

Sir Simon Schama has been at the forefront of the arts, political commentary, social analysis and historical study for over 40 years....

To look back at the past is to understand the present....

Simon Schama's sweeping history of Britain breathes life into our past centuries, vividly depicting exactly what life was like for our ancestors....

Award-winning historian Simon Schama completes his monumental three-volume history of Britain, which accompanies the acclaimed television epic....

Award-winning historian Simon Schama's landmark exploration of how America's past influences its future 'I can tell you exactly when American democracy came back from the dead, because I was there . . .'