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 sh…
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 sh…
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Seasons (3)
Season 1
30 Sep 2000 – 11 Nov 2000 · 7 episodes
1Beginnings (3100 BC - 1000 AD)30 Sep 2000
2Conquest! (1000 - 1087)7 Oct 2000
3Dynasty (1087 - 1216)14 Oct 2000
4Nations (1216 - 1348)21 Oct 2000
5King Death (1348 - 1500)28 Oct 2000
6Burning Convictions (1500 - 1558)4 Nov 2000
7The Body of the Queen (1558 - 1603)11 Nov 2000
Season 2
8 May 2001 – 29 May 2001 · 4 episodes
1The British Wars (1603 - 1649)8 May 2001
2Revolutions (1649 - 1689)15 May 2001
3Britannia Incorporated (1690 - 1750)22 May 2001
4The Wrong Empire (1750 - 1800)29 May 2001
Season 3
28 May 2002 – 18 Jun 2002 · 4 episodes
1Forces of Nature (1780 - 1832)28 May 2002
2Victoria and Her Sisters (1830 - 1910)4 Jun 2002
3The Empire of Good Intentions (1830 - 1925)11 Jun 2002