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A History of Britain 2 1603-1776 The British Wars by Simon Schama
Category: History
'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: At the Edge of the World? 3000BC-AD1603 by Simon Schama
Category: History
'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
'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 of SchamaÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs 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 he ...Show more
A History of Britain Volume 1 - At the Edge of the World? 3000 BC-AD 1603 by Simon Schama
Category: History
Secondhand. 'History clings tight but it also kicks loose,' writes Simon Schama at the outset of At the Edge of the World?, the first book in his three-volume journey into Britain's past. And change - sometimes gentle and subtle, sometimes shocking and violent - is the dynamic of Schama's unapologetica ...Show more
A History of Britain - Volume 2: The British Wars 1603-1776 by Simon Schama
Category: History
'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
A History of Britain Volume 3: The Fate of the Empire 1776-2000 by Simon Schama
Category: History
'While Britain was losing an empire, it was finding itself...' The compelling opening words to this volume, 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 empir ...Show more
Art by Simon Schama
Category: Art and 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 sen ...Show more
Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492-1900 by Simon Schama
Category: History
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
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 ...Show more
Belonging: The Story of the Jews, 1492 - 1900 by Simon Schama
Category: History
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