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A History of Britain 2 1603-1776 The British Wars by Simon Schama
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
'The British wars began on the morning of July 23 1637, and the first missiles launched were stools. They flew down the nave of St. Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh and their targets were the Dean and Bishop of Edinburgh...' The first round of the British wars had been fired, and fired on grounds of faith. ...Show more
A History of Britain 3 - The Fate of the Empire 1776-2001 by Simon Schama
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Britain never had the kind of revolution experienced by France in 1789, but it did come close. In the mid-1770s the country was intoxicated by a great surge of political energy. Re-discovering England's wildernesses, the intellectuals of the "Romantic generation" also discovered the plight of the common ...Show more
A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3000BC-AD1603 by Simon Schama
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
'History clings tight but it also kicks loose,' writes Simon Schama at the outset of this, the first book in his three-volume journey into Britain's past. 'Disruption as much as persistence is its proper subject. So although the great theme of British history seen from the twentieth century is endurance ...Show more
A History of Britain: The Fate of Empire 1776-2000 by Simon Schama
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
'While Britain was losing an empire, it was finding itself...' The compelling opening words to "The Fate of the Empire", set the tone and agenda for the final stage of Simon Schama's epic voyage around Britain, her people and her past. Spanning two centuries, crossing the breadth of the empire and cover ...Show more
A History of Britain - Volume 1 (At the Edge of the World, 3000 BC-AD 1603) by Simon Schama
Category: History
At the Edge of the World: 3000BC-AD1603 In the first an an epic trilogy, he takes us back to the beginnings of British history and the creation of a national identity. The great and wicked are all here Beckett and Thomas Cromwell, Robert the Bruce and Ann Boleyn, but so are countless more ordinary lives ...Show more
A History of Britain - Volume 2: The British Wars 1603-1776 by Simon Schama
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
'Great Britain? What was that?' asks Simon Schama at the start of this, the second book of his epic three-volume journey into Britain's past. This volume, "The British Wars", is a compelling chronicle of the changes that transformed every strand and stratum of British life, faith and thought from 1603 t ...Show more
Art by Simon Schama
Category: Art & Design | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
'Great art has dreadful manners... ...The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock and proceed in short order to re-arrange your sens ...Show more
Belonging: The Story of the Jews, 1492 - 1900 by Simon Schama
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZESelected as a Book of the Year 2017 by the Daily Telegraph, Mail on Sundayand Observer 'A glittering gemstone of a book' The TimesThe Jewish story is a history that is about, and for, all of us. And in our own time of anxious arrivals and enforced departures, the ...Show more
Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492-1900 by Simon Schama
Category: History
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 BY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, MAIL ON SUNDAY AND OBSERVER Belonging is a magnificent cultural history abundantly alive with energy, character and colour. From the Jews' expulsion from Spain in 1492 it tells the stories not just of r ...Show more
Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492-1900 by Simon Schama
Category: Non-fiction
The words that failed were words of hope. But they did not fail at all times and everywhere. These gripping pages teem with words of defiance and optimism, sounds and images of tenacious life and adventurous modernism, music and drama, business and philosophy, poetry and politics. The second part of Sim ...Show more
Citizens : A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The most authoritative social, cultural and narrative history of the French Revolution, and one of the great landmarks of modern history publishing. "Monumental...provocative and stylish, Simon Schama's account of the first few years of the great Revolution in France, and of the decades that led up to i ...Show more
Face of Britain by Simon Schama
Category: History
"Simon Schama for teasing out extraordinary tales. Combining his two great passions, British history and art history, for the first time, he turns Britain's most remarkable portraits into mesmerizing stories of love, power, fame and fortitude - which are beautifully illustrated with the treasures of the ...Show more
