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British Museum says Jewish event back on after being accused of 'appeasing antisemites'

Historian Simon Schama, veteran BBC journalist John Simpson and Tory leader Kemi Badenoch criticised the decision to put back a Jewish Culture Month event to a later date because of concerns it would be disrupted by activists

Evening Standard

Gisèle Pelicot and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe among Hay Festival 2026 speakers

The line-up for this year’s festival includes Emma Thompson, Malala Yousafzai, Ian McEwan and other prominent authors and figures

The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: Black Mirror; Doctor Who; What They Found; Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz; Reunion – review

Can the new Black Mirror compete with reality? Plus, Holocaust documentaries from Sam Mendes and Simon Schama, a pioneering British Sign Language thriller – and a nice bit of tension on Doctor Who

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Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz review – this gripping show isn’t afraid to ask awkward questions

The historian’s unflinching Holocaust documentary doesn't just chronicle horror. It also asks: how much was Europe to blame – and is any nation immune from antisemitism?

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: a deaf ex-prisoner goes all out for revenge

Reunion tells an intriguingly layered story of redemption. Plus: Sam Mendes’ documentary about the cameramen who filmed the horrors of Belsen. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: cancel all plans – it’s the final week of The Traitors

The next three nights are going to be terrifically tense with Claudia Winkleman. Plus: a corpse walks out of a morgue in Patience. Here’s watch to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Simon Schama’s series on the culture that defines us

The historian offers a look at the making of modern Britain. Plus, Ella Maisy Purvis is an autistic criminal-evidence cataloguer in Patience. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

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Simon Schama: ‘Britain is a much more tolerant place now. I’m Mr Sunshine on this’

The historian on taking the social pulse of the nation in his new TV series, why we’re such word addicts, and his fear that the needle in the US is moving towards red

The Guardian - UK

Simon Schama’s Story of Us review – not a good look for a noted professor

This cultural history of the British people is a vague, subjective take that lurches into the reactionary when it tackles social media. It’s a far cry from being a ‘major’ series

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: a new detective duo investigate a string of suicides

Patience is Channel 4’s crime drama set in beautiful York. Plus: more trouble with Claudia Winkleman in The Traitors. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

BBC arts chief hits back at accusations from Dimbleby and Bragg

Suzy Klein defends BBC’s ‘incredibly strong and passionate’ commitment to culture programming

The Guardian - UK

New works celebrate Jewish scientist ‘eliminated from history’

Exclusive: Dramas pay homage to Waldemar Haffkine, who created vaccines for bubonic plague and cholera

The Guardian - UK

Queen Sonja of Norway calls art a ‘unifying force in turbulent times’ at printmaking awards

Anselm Kiefer received The Queen Sonja Lifetime Achievement Award

The Independent UK

Another View: Landscapes by Women Artists – a rare chance to see our rapidly changing world from a purely female perspective

As art and cultural historian Simon Schama has explained, the term “landscape” originated from Dutch and German etymology – literally speaking of shaping the land as a cultural activity. It is gratifying to see this term being rehabilitated after decades of substitution for the term “environment”.

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Talkshow host Jesse Kelly turns taking liberties with the facts into an art form

Rightwing culture warriors can’t help torching the truth with observations on New York’s landmark and London’s Ulez

The Conversation

Simon Schama's history of 18th and 19th century disease outbreaks speaks powerfully to the present

Pandemics. Quarantine. Vaccines. These concepts have been at the forefront of our minds for over three years now. Having lived through the height of the COVID pandemic, it would be easy for us to imagine we have just experienced something unique in human history.

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Simon Schama’s cultural highlights

The historian and broadcaster on his favourite new sitcom, a moving art memoir, and why no one beats Anselm Kiefer

The Guardian - UK

Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations by Simon Schama review – scientists to the rescue

The historian offers up lessons from past pandemics in an indictment of modern leaders’ response to Covid

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The Guardian - UK

How to cook the perfect rhubarb and custard tart

These two foodstuffs go hand in hand, and this tart is an excellent choice for Easter. If you still get hold of some bright pink forced rhubarb, even better

The Guardian - UK

Those of us who care for Israeli democracy unite against Benjamin Netanyahu

In trying to emasculate the judiciary and by allying himself with the far right, the prime minister has alienated the people

The Guardian - UK

Simon Schama urges UK Jews to condemn Israel’s ‘horrifying’ shift to far right

Historian and TV presenter is among those to speak out as protest grows over settler violence against Palestinians

Evening Standard

Romola Garai and Emma Thompson among over 100 star names showing solidarity for jailed climate protesters

Historian Sir Simon Schama and actress Romola Garai are among the more than 100 names who have signed a letter showing solidarity for jailed climate protesters.

The Guardian - UK

More than 100 writers sign letter in solidarity with jailed UK climate activists

Ben Okri, Simon Schama, Helen Pankhurst and AL Kennedy among those saying they ‘stand with’ protesters

The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: The Patient; Slow Horses; Simon Schama’s History of Now; The Traitors – review

Steve Carell’s beard seems to grow in real time in a ponderous psychological thriller; Gary Oldman and co return for more grubby sleuthing; and Claudia Winkleman channels Anne Robinson

The Guardian - UK

Simon Schama’s History of Now review – this highly personal show is simplistic and outdated

The academic’s look at truth, democracy and art has its heart very much in the right place. But too often it’s fighting old battles rather than grasping the modern reality of untruths

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