Simon Schama

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

“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.

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

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

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

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?

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

Turkey’s greatest writer talks about the ‘wonderful’ uprising in Taksim Square, and opens the doors to his ‘Museum of Innocence’