Simon Schama

Talkshow host Jesse Kelly turns taking liberties with the facts into an art form | Rowan Moore

Rightwing culture warriors can’t help torching the truth with observations on New York’s landmark and London’s Ulez

Rowan Moore

30, Dec, 2023 @4:00 PM

Best ideas books of 2023

From psychology to AI, pandemics to popular culture, we survey the bigger picture

Steven Poole

05, Dec, 2023 @11:00 AM

Foreign Bodies by Simon Schama review – pandemics and prejudice

The historian brings his considerable literary talents to this study of how blame, often mixed with antisemitism, has attended disease and vaccination through the ages

Mark Honigsbaum

21, May, 2023 @6:00 AM

Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations by Simon Schama review – scientists to the rescue

The historian offers up lessons from past pandemics in an indictment of modern leaders’ response to Covid

Jerry Brotton

19, May, 2023 @6:30 AM

Simon Schama urges UK Jews to condemn Israel’s ‘horrifying’ shift to far right

Historian and TV presenter is among those to speak out as protest grows over settler violence against Palestinians

Harriet Sherwood

05, Mar, 2023 @7:00 AM

More than 100 writers sign letter in solidarity with jailed UK climate activists

Ben Okri, Simon Schama, Helen Pankhurst and AL Kennedy among those saying they ‘stand with’ protesters

Damien Gayle

06, Jan, 2023 @6:00 AM

The week in TV: The Patient; Slow Horses; Simon Schama’s History of Now; The Traitors – review

Steve Carell’s beard seems to grow in real time in a ponderous psychological thriller; Gary Oldman and co return for more grubby sleuthing; and Claudia Winkleman channels Anne Robinson

Barbara Ellen

04, Dec, 2022 @9:30 AM

Simon Schama’s History of Now review – this highly personal show is simplistic and outdated

The academic’s look at truth, democracy and art has its heart very much in the right place. But too often it’s fighting old battles rather than grasping the modern reality of untruths

Jack Seale

27, Nov, 2022 @10:15 PM

Hay festival returns with its first in-person event for three years

Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, Bernardine Evaristo, Elif Shafak and Benedict Cumberbatch are among those taking part in the 11-day gathering in Welsh border town

Lucy Knight

05, Apr, 2022 @11:00 AM

Martina Hall obituary

Maker of arts and history films for TV with an eye for detail and a flair for celebrating the creative gifts of women

Saskia Baron

14, Sep, 2021 @4:46 PM

Culture to cheer you up during the second lockdown: part one

As parts of the UK enters another month – at least – of being stuck indoors, our critics pick out top music, games, books, TV, dance and art fixes to lift your spirits

Alexis Petridis, Keza MacDonald, Alison Flood, Lucy Mangan, Lyndsey Winship, Jonathan Jones

05, Nov, 2020 @10:51 AM