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     • Sir Simon Michael Schama CBE FBA FRHistS FRSL (/ ˈʃɑːmə / SHAH-mə; born 13 February 1945) is an English historian and television presenter. He specialises in art history, Dutch history, Jewish history, and French history. He is a Professor of History and Art History at Columbia University.
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   Who is Simon Schama?

   • [ 50] Niall Ferguson praised Schama, "Amongst [historians] currently writing, Simon Schama stands out as the Dickens of modern historiography: bewilderingly erudite and prolific, passionate in his enthusiasms and armed with the complete contents of the thesaurus ."

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   Why is Schama a great historian?

   • Schama’s account of the battles to control smallpox, cholera and the plague is certainly a departure for the acclaimed historian, who is renowned particularly for his explorations of the power of great art as an agent of change. Here he turns his supple pen to suppurating pustules, flea-bitten rats and the dissection of mosquitos.

   Simon Schama: The forgotten Jewish hero who developed immunisation

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   Did Schama write a series of tie-in books?

   • Schama also wrote a trilogy of tie-in books for the show, which took the story up to the year 2000; there is some debate as to whether the books are the tie-in product for the TV series, or the other way around. The series also had some popularity in the United States when it was first shown on the History Channel. [ 28]

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   Why did Schama criticise the Jewish party?

   • Schama made a further criticism of the party in July 2019, when he joined other leading Jewish figures in saying, in a letter to The Guardian, that the crisis was "a taint of international and historic shame" and that trust in the party was "fractured beyond repair".

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   Sir Simon Michael Schama CBE FBA FRHistS FRSL (/ ˈʃɑːmə / SHAH-mə; born 13 February 1945) is an English historian and television presenter. He specialises in art history, Dutch history, Jewish history, and French history. [1] He is a Professor of History and Art History at Columbia University.

4. history.columbia.edu › person › schama-simonSchama, Simon | Department of History - Columbia University

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   Feb 14, 2024 · Sir Simon Schama, University Professor of Art History and History, was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge and taught at Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard before coming to Columbia in 1993. His courses have addressed the British Empire, English and French art and politics, the Gothic Revival in England, Ruskin, and Victorian culture.

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6. www.ft.com › content › 95fc03c2-f11f-4c22-8a38-3eSimon Schama: Let us be, to grieve, rage, weep - Financial Times

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   Oct 13, 2023 · Confronted with enormity: murdered infants, abducted grandmothers, slaughtered villagers, lusty chants of “gas the Jews” at the Free Palestine demonstration in Sydney, mere words feel like ...

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   May 24, 2023 · The Jewish scientist from Odesa was the first to develop vaccines against cholera and bubonic plague, saving countless lives in India in the 1890s and early 1900s with the immunisation...

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     Simon Schama, "The Story of the Jews, volume: 2"

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   Nov 27, 2022 · Simon Schama explores how artists and writers have led the fight for truth and democracy in his lifetime, often at great personal cost. Featuring Ai Weiwei and Nadya Tolokonnikova....

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    Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University and a Contributing Editor of the Financial Times. He is the author of 16 books and the...

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    May 6, 2022 · Simon Schama: when history is weaponised for war. As Putin appeals to the distant past to justify his invasion of Ukraine, militant nostalgia is on the march around the world. © Aleksey...