British historian (born 1945)
Sir Simon Michael Schama
CBE
FBA
FRHistS
FRSL
(
SHAH
-m?
; 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
.
[2]
Schama first came to public attention with his history of the
French Revolution
titled
Citizens
, published in 1989.
[1]
He is also known for writing and hosting the 15-part BBC television documentary series
A History of Britain
(2000?2002),
[3]
[4]
as well as other documentary series such as
The American Future: A History
(2008) and
The Story of the Jews
(2013).
Schama was
knighted
in the
2018 Queen's Birthday Honours
List.
[5]
Early life and education
[
edit
]
Schama was born on 13 February 1945 in
Marylebone
, London.
[1]
[6]
His mother, Gertie (nee Steinberg), was from an
Ashkenazi
Lithuanian Jewish
family (from
Kaunas
, present-day
Lithuania
), and his father, Arthur Schama, was of
Sephardi Jewish
background (from Smyrna, present-day
?zmir
in Turkey), later moving through Moldova and Romania.
[7]
[8]
In the mid-1940s, the family moved to
Southend-on-Sea
in Essex before moving back to London. In 1956, Schama won a scholarship to the private
Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School
in
Cricklewood
(from 1961
Elstree
, Hertfordshire). He then studied history at
Christ's College, Cambridge
, where he was taught by
John H. Plumb
. He graduated from the
University of Cambridge
with a
Starred First
in 1966.
[1]
Career
[
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]
From 1966 to 1976, Schama was a
fellow
and director of studies in history at
Christ's College, Cambridge
.
[9]
He then moved to
Oxford University
, where he was elected a fellow of
Brasenose College, Oxford
in 1976,
[9]
specialising in the
French Revolution
.
[1]
He also worked at the
School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
(EHESS) in Paris.
At this time, Schama wrote his first book,
Patriots and Liberators
, which won the
Wolfson History Prize
. The book was originally intended as a study of the French Revolution, but as published in 1977, it focused on the effect of the
Patriottentijd
revolution of the 1780s in the Netherlands, and its
aftermath
.
[10]
[11]
His second book,
Two Rothschilds and the Land of Israel
(1978), is a study of the
Zionist
aims of
Edmond
and
James Rothschild
.
In the United States
[
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]
In 1980, Schama took up a chair at
Harvard University
as Mellon Professor of History.
[9]
His next book,
The Embarrassment of Riches
(1987), again focused on Dutch history.
[12]
Schama interpreted the ambivalences that informed the
Dutch Golden Age
of the 17th century, held in balance between the conflicting imperatives, to live richly and with power, or to live a godly life. The iconographic evidence that Schama draws upon, in 317 illustrations, of emblems and propaganda that defined Dutch character, prefigured his expansion in the 1990s as a commentator on art and visual culture.
Citizens
(1989), written at speed to a publisher's commission, saw the publication of his long-awaited study of the
French Revolution
, and won the 1990
NCR Book Award
. Its view that the violence of the Terror was inherent from the start of the Revolution, however, has received serious negative criticism.
[1]
[14]
Schama appeared as an on-screen expert in
Michael Wood
's 1989 PBS series
Art of the Western World
("Realms of Light: The Baroque") as a presenting art historian, commenting on paintings by
Diego Velazquez
,
Rembrandt
, and
Johannes Vermeer
.
[15]
In 1991, he published
Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations)
,
[16]
a relatively slender work of unusual structure and point-of-view in that it looked at two widely reported deaths a hundred years apart, that of British Army General
James Wolfe
in 1759 ? and the famous 1770
painting depicting the event
by
Benjamin West
? and that of
George Parkman
, murdered uncle of the better known 19th-century American historian
Francis Parkman
.
[17]
[18]
Schama mooted some possible (invented) connections between the two cases, exploring the historian's inability "ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing the documentation", and speculatively bridging "the teasing gap separating a lived event and its subsequent narration." Not all readers absorbed the nuance of the title: it received a very mixed critical and academic reception. Traditional historians in particular denounced Schama's integration of fact and conjecture to produce a seamless narrative,
[19]
but later assessments took a more relaxed view of the experiment.
[20]
It was an approach soon taken up by such historical writers as
Peter Ackroyd
,
David Taylor
, and
Richard Holmes
.
[21]
Schama's next book,
Landscape and Memory
(1995), focused on the relationship between physical environment and
folk memory
, separating the components of landscape as wood, water and rock, enmeshed in the cultural consciousness of collective "memory" embodied in myths, which Schama finds to be expressed outwardly in ceremony and text. More personal and idiosyncratic than
Dead Certainties
, this book was more traditionally structured and better-defined in its approach. Despite mixed reviews, the book was a commercial success and won numerous prizes.
[22]
[23]
Plaudits came from the art world rather than from traditional academia. Schama became
art critic
for
The New Yorker
in 1995. He held the position for three years, dovetailing his regular column with professorial duties at
Columbia University
; a selection of his essays on art for the magazine, chosen by Schama himself, was published in 2005 under the title
Hang Ups
.
[24]
During this time, Schama also produced a lavishly illustrated
Rembrandt's Eyes
, another critical and commercial success. Despite the book's title, it contrasts the biographies of
Rembrandt van Rijn
and
Peter Paul Rubens
.
[25]
Schama returned to the UK in 2000, having been commissioned by the BBC to produce a series of television documentary programmes on British history as part of their Millennium celebrations, under the title
A History of Britain
. Schama wrote and presented the episodes himself, in a friendly and often jocular style with his highly characteristic delivery, and was rewarded with excellent reviews and unexpectedly high ratings. There has been, however, some irritation and criticism expressed by a group of historians about Schama's condensed recounting of the
British Isles
' history on this occasion, particularly by those specialising in the pre-
Anglo-Saxon
history of
Insular Celtic
civilisation.
[26]
Three series were made, totalling 15 episodes,
[27]
[28]
covering the complete span of British history up until 1965;
[28]
it went on to become one of the BBC's best-selling documentary series on DVD. 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]
In 2001, Schama received a
CBE
. In 2003, he signed a new contract with the BBC and
HarperCollins
to produce three new books and two accompanying TV series. Worth £3 million (around US$5.3m), it represents the biggest advance deal ever for a TV historian. The first result of the deal was a book and TV show entitled
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
,
[29]
dealing in particular with the proclamation issued during the
Revolutionary War
by
Lord Dunmore
offering slaves from rebel plantations freedom in return for service to the crown.
[30]
In 2006, the BBC broadcast a new TV series,
Simon Schama's Power of Art
, which, with an accompanying book, was presented and written by Schama. It marks a return to art history for him, treating eight artists through eight key works:
Caravaggio
's
David with the Head of Goliath
,
Bernini
's
Ecstasy of St Theresa
,
Rembrandt
's
Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis
,
Jacques-Louis David
's
The Death of Marat
,
J. M. W. Turner
's
The Slave Ship
,
Vincent van Gogh
's
Wheat Field with Crows
,
Picasso
's
Guernica
and
Mark Rothko
's
Seagram murals
.
[31]
It was also shown on
PBS
in the United States.
[32]
Schama at New York City's
Strand Bookstore
in 2006.
In October 2008, on the eve of the
presidential election won by Barack Obama
, the BBC broadcast a four-part television series called
The American Future: A History
presented and written by Schama. In March 2009, Schama presented a
BBC Radio 4
show entitled
Baseball and Me
, both exploring the history of the game and describing his own personal support of the
Boston Red Sox
.
[33]
In 2010, Schama presented a series of ten talks for the
BBC Radio 4
series
A Point of View.
[34]
In 2011, the BBC commissioned Simon Schama to write and present a five-part series called
A History of the Jews
for
BBC Two
, for transmission in 2012,
[35]
The title became
The Story of the Jews
and broadcast was delayed until September 2013.
[36]
Writing in
The Observer
,
Andrew Anthony
called the series "an astonishing achievement, a TV landmark."
[37]
In 2018, Simon Schama wrote and presented five of the nine episodes of
Civilisations
, a reboot of the
1969 series
by
Kenneth Clark
.
[38]
Personal life
[
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]
Schama is Jewish. He is married to Virginia Papaioannou, a geneticist from California; they have two children, Chloe and Gabriel.
[39]
As of 2014, Schama resides in
Briarcliff Manor, New York
.
[40]
He is a
Tottenham Hotspur
supporter.
[41]
Politics
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]
In 2010, Schama was a financial donor to
Oona King
's unsuccessful campaign to become
Mayor of London
.
[42]
In August 2014, Schama was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to
The Guardian
expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's
referendum on that issue
.
[43]
In November 2017, Schama joined
Simon Sebag Montefiore
and
Howard Jacobson
in writing a letter to
The Times
about their concern over
antisemitism in the Labour Party
under
Jeremy Corbyn
's leadership, with particular reference to a growth in
Anti-Zionism
and its purported "antisemitic characteristics". Schama and Sebag Montefiore have both written historical works about Israel, while Jacobson has written regularly about Israel and the UK Jewish community in his newspaper columns.
[44]
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".
[45]
Israel
[
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]
Schama was critical of British art critic
John Berger
's support for the Palestinian call for an academic boycott of Israel. Writing in
The Guardian
in a 2006 article co-authored with
Anthony Julius
, Schama compared the open letter written by Berger and signed by 92 other leading artists to
Nazi Germany
, saying: "This is not the first boycott call directed at Jews. On 1 April 1933, only weeks after he came to power,
Hitler
ordered a boycott of Jewish shops, banks, offices and department stores."
[46]
In 2006 on the BBC, Schama debated with
Vivienne Westwood
the morality of Israel's actions in the
Israel-Lebanon War
.
[47]
He described Israel's bombing of Lebanese city centres as unhelpful to Israel's attempt to "get rid of"
Hezbollah
.
[47]
He said: "Of course the spectacle and suffering makes us grieve. Who wouldn't grieve? But it's not enough to do that. We've got to understand. You've even got to understand Israel's point of view."
[47]
United States
[
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]
Schama was a supporter of President
Barack Obama
[48]
and a critic of
George W. Bush
.
[49]
He appeared on the BBC's coverage of the
2008 US presidential election
, clashing with
John Bolton
.
[50]
Reception and appraisal
[
edit
]
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
."
[51]
Prizes and other honours
[
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]
- 1977:
Wolfson History Prize
, for
Patriots and Liberators
- 1977:
Leo Gershoy Award
, for
Patriots and Liberators
- 1987:
New York Times
Best Books of the Year
, for
The Embarrassment of Riches
- 1989:
New York Times
Best Books of the Year, for
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
- 1989:
Yorkshire Post
Book Award, for
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
- 1990:
NCR Book Award
, for
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
- 1992:
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Award for Literature
- 1995: Elected to Honorary Fellowship, Christ's College, Cambridge
- 1996: Lionel Trilling Book Award, for
Landscape and Memory
- 1996:
National Magazine Awards
, for critical essays in
The New Yorker
- 1996:
WH Smith Literary Award
, for
Landscape and Memory
- 2001:
St. Louis Literary Award
from the
Saint Louis University
Library Associates
[52]
[53]
- 2001: Broadcasting Press Guild Writer's Award, for
A History of Britain
- 2001: Nominated for BAFTA Huw Wheldon Award for Specialised Programme or Series (Arts, History, Religion and Science), for
A History of Britain
[54]
- 2002: Nominated for BAFTA Richard Dimbleby Award for the Best Presenter (Factual, Features and News), for
A History of Britain
- 2003: Nominated for Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Writing
Emmy Award
for
The Two Winstons
, an episode of
A History of Britain
[55]
- 2006:
National Book Critics Circle Award
for Non-fiction winner, for
Rough Crossings
[56]
- 2006: Hessell-Tiltman Prize Shortlist, for
Rough Crossings
- 2007:
International Emmy Award
, for
Bernini
, an episode of
Simon Schama's Power of Art
[57]
- 2007: Nominated for BAFTA Huw Wheldon Award for Specialised Factual Programme or Series, for
Simon Schama's Power of Art
- 2008:
The Daily Telegraph
'
s 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library, for
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
- 2011: Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement
[58]
- 2015:
Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy
[59]
- 2015:
Feltrinelli Prize
for History
- 2017:
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
[60]
- 2018
:
Knight Bachelor
, for services to history
Honours
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]
Commonwealth honours
[
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]
- Commonwealth honours
Scholastic
[
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]
- University degrees
- Chancellor, visitor, governor, rector and fellowships
- Honorary degrees
Memberships and Fellowships
[
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]
Awards
[
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]
Bibliography
[
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]
- Books
- Patriots and Liberators: Revolution in the Netherlands 1780?1813
(1977)
- Two Rothschilds and the Land of Israel
(1978)
- The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
(1987)
- Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
(1989)
[1]
- Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations
(1991,
ISBN
0394222202
)
- Landscape and Memory
(1995,
ISBN
0679402551
)
[22]
[82]
- Rembrandt's Eyes
(1999,
ISBN
0676593925
)
[82]
- A History of Britain
Vol. I (2000,
ISBN
0-563-48714-3
)
- A History of Britain
Vol. II (2001,
ISBN
0-563-48718-6
)
- A History of Britain
Vol. III (2002,
ISBN
0-563-48719-4
)
- Hang Ups: Essays on Art
(2004,
ISBN
0563521732
)
- Rough Crossings
(2005,
ISBN
0-06-053916-X
)
- Simon Schama's Power of Art
(2006,
ISBN
0-06-117610-9
)
[32]
- The American Future: A History
(2009,
ISBN
0-06-053923-2
)
- Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Writing on Politics, Ice Cream, Churchill and My Mother
(2011,
ISBN
978-0062009869
)
- The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BCE?1492 CE
, Volume I (2013,
Bodley Head
,
ISBN
9781847921321
)
[83]
- The Face of Britain: The Nation through Its Portraits
(2015,
ISBN
9780241963715
)
- Belonging: The Story of the Jews, 1492?1900
, Volume II (2017,
Bodley Head
,
ISBN
9781847922809
)
[84]
- Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations
(2023,
ISBN
9781471169892
)
- Television documentaries
- Landscape and Memory
(1995), in five parts
- Rembrandt: The Public Eye and the Private Gaze
(1995)
- A History of Britain by Simon Schama
? BBC (2000), in 15 parts
- Murder at Harvard
? PBS (2003)
- Rough Crossings
? BBC (2005)
- Simon Schama's Power of Art
? BBC (2006), in eight parts
- The American Future: A History
? BBC (2008), in four parts
- Simon Schama's John Donne
? BBC (2009)
- Simon Schama's Obama's America
? BBC (2009)
- Simon Schama's Shakespeare
? BBC (2012)
- The Story of the Jews
? BBC (2013), in five parts
- Schama on Rembrandt: Masterpieces of the Late Years
? BBC (2014)
- The Face of Britain by Simon Schama
? BBC (2015), in five parts
- Civilisations
? BBC (2018), five of nine parts
- The Romantics and Us with Simon Schama
? BBC (2020) 3 episodes: Passions of the People; The Chambers of the Mind; Tribes
[85]
- Simon Schama's History of Now
? BBC (2022) 3 episodes: Truth and Democracy; Equality; The Price of Plenty
[86]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. Archived from
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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