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Sep 2000 - Jun 2002

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A History of Britain Episode Guide

Stretching from the Stone Age to the year 2000, Simon Schama's Complete History of Britain does not pretend to be a definitive chronicle of the turbulent events which buffeted and shaped the British Isles. What Schama does do, however, is tell the story in vivid and gripping narrative terms, free of the fustiness of traditional academe, personalising key historical events by examining the major characters at the centre of them. Not all historians would approve of the history depicted here as shaped principally by the actions of great men and women rather than by more abstract developments, but Schama's way of telling it is a good deal more enthralling as a result. Schama successfully gives lie to the idea that the history of Britain has been moderate and temperate, passing down the generations as stately as a galleon, taking on board sensible ideas but steering clear of sillier, revolutionary ones. Nonsense. Schama retells British history the way it was--as bloody, convulsive, precarious, hot-blooded and several times within an inch of haring off onto an entirely different course. Schama seems almost to delight in the goriness of history. Themes returned to repeatedly include the wars between the Scots and the Irish and the Catholic/Protestant conflicts--only the Irish question remains unresolved by the new millennium. As Britain becomes a constitutional monarchy, Schama talks less of Kings and Queens but of poets and idea-makers like Orwell. Still, with his pungent, direct manner and against an evocative visual and aural backdrop, Schama makes history seem as though it happened yesterday, the bloodstains not yet dry.

The best rated episodes of A History of Britain are:
  • Nations (1216 - 1348) S1E4 rated 7.7
  • Conquest! (1000 - 1087) S1E2 rated 7.7
  • Burning Convictions (1500 - 1558) S1E6 rated 7.6
  • King Death (1348 - 1500) S1E5 rated 7.5
  • Dynasty (1087 - 1216) S1E3 rated 7.5
The lowest rated episodes of A History of Britain are:
  • The Empire of Good Intentions (1830 - 1925) S3E3 rated 7.0
  • Forces of Nature (1780 - 1832) S3E1 rated 7.1
  • Victoria and Her Sisters (1830 - 1910) S3E2 rated 7.1
  • The Wrong Empire (1750 - 1800) S2E4 rated 7.1
  • Beginnings (3100 BC - 1000 AD) S1E1 rated 7.2

The first episode of A History of Britain aired on September 30, 2000.

The last episode of A History of Britain aired on June 18, 2002.

There are 15 episodes of A History of Britain.

There are 3 seasons of A History of Britain.

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