The Latest Breaking News from Simon Schama

Pete Hegseth’s D-day speech on immigration condemned as ‘grotesque stupidity’

Historians and campaigners accuse US defence secretary of desecrating memory of soldiers who fell in Normandy

The Guardian - UK · Jun 7

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 · May 28

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 · Mar 9

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 · Jan 15, 2025

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 · Jan 12, 2025

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 · Jan 8, 2025

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 · Jan 8, 2025

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 · Sep 25, 2024

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 · Jun 9, 2024

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 · Jun 8, 2024