But as the historian Simon Schama notes in his latest ... anti-racist ska anthems and the feminist pop art of Pauline Boty. Many of the works that Schama focuses on are not only those that say ...

Art and culture define us - but in an age of change, who are we now? In divided times, Simon Schama asks whether art, music and words can be the threads that bind us together.

Simon Schama reflects on a life in culture - and its enduring power in shaping our world. From The Handmaid's Tale to The Thick of It, how has art defined what matters to us all?

Simon Schama goes in search of who we are now - and discovers the answers in our art and culture. Today Britain seems more divided than ever. The so-called ‘culture wars’ have left British ...

The historian chooses to focus on those who kicked back against tradition, rather than celebrated it, in his new BBC Two series At one point during Simon Schama’s Story of Us (BBC Two), the ...

Simon Schama is University Professor of History and History of Art at Columbia. His forthcoming book is “The Story of the Jews” (Bodley Head) and the accompanying BBC documentary begins in September.

Well, cheer up, says historian Simon Schama, there is an antidote ... In his search for examples of the unifying power of culture, he settled upon the Beatles. You might think the Fab Four ...

The BBC synopsis for the series reads: "Historian Simon Schama explores how art and culture has captured the transformations of British society since 1945. "Although the post-war years saw a ...