Simon Schama Audio & Video

The Dutch, in rebellion against Spanish rule, created in only a few generations a powerful world empire, its culture admired throughout the West…

Rembrandt van Rijn is the best known of all the Dutch masters. His range was vast, from landscapes to portraits to Biblical scenes; he revolutionised every medium he handled, from oil paintings to etchings and drawings.

The power of the greatest art is the power to shake us into revelation and rip us from our default mode of seeing. After an encounter with that force, we don't look at a face, a colour, a sky, a body, in quite the same way again.

"Rough Crossings" is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence.

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

The Battle Of The Great 19th-century Novelists with Professor John Mullan arguing for Dickens and historian Simon Schama arguing for Tolstoy.

Rough Crossings turns on a single huge question: if you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, whom would you want to win?

In this, the first volume of an epic history of Britain, one of the most popular and celebrated historians of our day brings the birth and growth of a nation...

Simon Schama discusses hos book, "Rough Crossings," at Google's Mountain View, CA, headquarters. This event took place on April 14, 2006, as part of the Authors@Google series.

A vibrant cultural history investigating pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian Simon Schama