She writes family scenes better than anyone else I can think of.
"Simon Michael Schama", Order of the British Empire/CBE is an English historian specialising in art history, Dutch history, and French history. He is a University Professor of History and Art History at Columbia University, New York. He first came to popular public attention with his history of the French Revolution titled Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution/Citizens, published in 1989. In the United Kingdom, he is perhaps best known for writing and hosting the 15-part BBC television documentary series Simon Schama's A History of Britain/A History of Britain broadcast between 2000 and 2002.
More Simon Schama on Wikipedia.But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.
He was a frustrated theatrical impresario, basically.
A terrible vanity, really, but as you get older...
It was a conscious decision by (Sir Robert) Walpole and others to replace religion with making money. Elections replaced battles, and the fights were over party politics.
Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot.
We find a way (in each country) to contain our differences of opinion without annihilating one another.
Walking on camera is damn hard. It's a Jewish problem. The rangy stride across the blasted moor is not really a Jewish thing.
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