A history of Britain [videorecording] : a complete collection / written and presented by Simon Schma.
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TextPublisher: U.K : BBC, c2008Description: 1 videodisc (230 mins.)Subject(s): Great Britain -- History | Great Britain -- Beginnings | Great Britain -- Conquest | Great Britain -- DynastySummary: FORCES OF NATURE - covering the period of 3100 BC - 1000 AD. Simon Schama starts his story in the Stone Age Village of Skara Brae, Orkney. Over the next four thousand years Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Danes, and Christian missionaries arrive, fight, settle and leave their mark on what will become the nations of Britain. VICTORIA AND HER SISTERS - covering 1830-1910. As the Victorian era began, the massive advance of technology and industrialization was rapidly reshaping both the landscape and the social structure of the whole country. To a much greater extent than ever before women would take a centre-stage role in shaping society. EMPIRE OF GOOD INTENTIONS - covering 1830-1925. This episode charts the chequerred life of the liberal empire from Ireland to India - the promise of civilisation and material betterment and the deliveryof coercion and famine. THE TWO WINSTONS - covering 1910-1965. In the final episode, Schama examines the overwhelming presence of the past in the British twentieth century and the struggle of leaders to find a way to make a different national future. As towering figures of the twentieth century, Churchill and Orwell (through its 1984 character Winston Smith) in their different ways exemplify lives spent brooding and acting on that imperial past, and most movingly for us, writing and shaping its history.
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FORCES OF NATURE - covering the period of 3100 BC - 1000 AD. Simon Schama starts his story in the Stone Age Village of Skara Brae, Orkney. Over the next four thousand years Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Danes, and Christian missionaries arrive, fight, settle and leave their mark on what will become the nations of Britain. VICTORIA AND HER SISTERS - covering 1830-1910. As the Victorian era began, the massive advance of technology and industrialization was rapidly reshaping both the landscape and the social structure of the whole country. To a much greater extent than ever before women would take a centre-stage role in shaping society. EMPIRE OF GOOD INTENTIONS - covering 1830-1925. This episode charts the chequerred life of the liberal empire from Ireland to India - the promise of civilisation and material betterment and the deliveryof coercion and famine. THE TWO WINSTONS - covering 1910-1965. In the final episode, Schama examines the overwhelming presence of the past in the British twentieth century and the struggle of leaders to find a way to make a different national future. As towering figures of the twentieth century, Churchill and Orwell (through its 1984 character Winston Smith) in their different ways exemplify lives spent brooding and acting on that imperial past, and most movingly for us, writing and shaping its history.
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