A History Of Britain, Simon Schama
A History Of Britain, Simon Schama
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A History Of Britain
Volume 3 - The Fate of Empire 1776-2000

Author: Simon Schama

Narrator: Timothy West

Unabridged: 10 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/01/2004

Synopsis

Award-winning historian Simon Schama concludes his monumental three-volume history of Britain. Here he illuminates the period from 1776 to 2000 through a variety of historical themes, including Victorian advances in technology and industry, women’s increasing role in society, and the burgeoning British Empire which promised civilisation and material betterment for all. This volume also looks at key characters from the period, including Wordsworth, Burke, Queen Victoria, Churchill and Orwell, whilst examining some lesser-known lives, such as Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first woman doctor, and Mary Seacole, a Jamaican nurse in the Crimea. Finally Schama reflects on the overwhelming presence of the past in the 20th century, and the struggle of our leaders to find a way of making a different national future.

About Simon Schama

Sir Simon Schama's award-winning books, which have been translated into twenty-three languages, include The Embarrassment of Riches, Citizens, Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt's Eyes, A History of Britain, The Power of Art, Rough Crossings, The American Future, The Face of Britain and The Story of the Jews. His art columns for the New Yorker won the National Magazine Award for criticism and his journalism has appeared regularly in the Guardian and the Financial Times, where he is Contributing Editor. He has written and presented more than fifty films for the BBC on subjects as diverse as Tolstoy and American politics, and he co-presented the landmark series on the history of world art, Civilisations. Most recently, his History of Now series aired on BBC2 in November–December 2022. Schama lives in New York and is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University. Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations is his twentieth book.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrew on September 19, 2022

I thought this third volume of Simon Schama’s History of Britain would be the one I’d enjoy the most, after all I’d lived through a small part of it and surely I knew more about the more recent history of this sceptred isle than the years covered in the earlier volumes. But no, in truth I found this......more

Goodreads review by Olethros on November 23, 2014

-Repaso histórico muy peculiar.- Género. Ensayo. Lo que nos cuenta. Tercer libro de la serie del autor dedicado a la historia de Gran Bretaña (que no del Imperio Británico estrictamente hablando), que se ocupa del periodo entre 1776 y 2000. ¿Quiere saber más de este libro, sin spoilers? Visite: http://......more

Goodreads review by Ross on July 24, 2017

I did not care for this final volume as much as for the first two. The author spent a lot of time on historical figures, such as poets and novelists, that were of little interest to me. At the same time he devoted no mention whatever to the work of the two most important Englishmen who ever lived, Ne......more

Goodreads review by Annie on November 04, 2012

In the context of the entire history of Britain, I suppose the period 1776-2000 is, very much, about the "fate of empire" — building it up and then tearing it down — and Schama does spend a considerable amount of time on India in this book. But more than battles and occupations, it catalogs the buil......more

Goodreads review by Alison on December 02, 2021

I found this volume of the trilogy the least satisfying - seemed a bit rushed - then I discovered I’d downloaded an abridged version by mistake. I will listen to the full one because I want the full story. However the abridged version still has much to commend it. Schama takes key themes - rise and......more

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