Simon Schama

Historian Simon Schama on why he has finally been able to write ‘The Story of the Jews’

There’s no doubting the passion and intellect Neil MacGregor brings to history. So what will he now teach us about a nation with an inescapably explosive past – Germany?

Horror meets the horrid in this wickedly good collection of short stories

Britain’s choice next Thursday is between the past and the future, writes Simon Schama

Seventy-five years after the camp’s liberation, remembrance is more important than ever

Changing attitudes towards racial injustice will affect who we consider tolerable and who intolerable to memorialise

LBJ, MLK and what the dramas of 1965 can teach a polarised nation

“The Bookseller of Florence,” by Ross King, tells the history of Renaissance bookmaking through the story of Vespasiano da Bisticci, who rose from humble roots to dominate the trade.

News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication

News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication

News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication

Elizabeth II managed, when it counted most, to be the idealised personification of the nation, immune to hysteria but open to social empathy.