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    • Saturday, 4 June, 2022
      FT News Briefing podcast26 min listen
      FT Weekend: Tina Brown and Simon Schama on the royal family

      This weekend, we're marking the Queen's Platinum Jubilee with a spirited discussion …

    • Friday, 6 May, 2022
      The Weekend Essay
      Simon Schama: when history is weaponised for war

      As Putin appeals to the distant past to justify his invasion of Ukraine, militant nostalgia is on the march around the world

    • Saturday, 5 March, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      Putin’s plan is failing in ways he could not have imagined

      The hardware of the Russian invasion may well be operational but the software of its narrative has seized up

    • Monday, 10 January, 2022
      FT Globetrotter
      Many happy returns: the city spaces that bring joy to our correspondents and writers

      Be it New York subway trains, a Frankfurt bakery or a Tokyo karaoke joint, these are the spots that never fail to uplift the FT’s globetrotters

    • Friday, 30 July, 2021
      Life & Arts
      The summer that changed my life

      From Hawaii to the Himalayas, Simon Schama, Lucy Kellaway and other FT writers on the holidays that stayed with them 

    • Thursday, 8 July, 2021
      FT SeriesLetters from New York
      Simon Schama on America’s history wars, race and the flag

      The battles over the country’s founding myths did not begin with ‘woke’ activists, but have been there from the start

    • Tuesday, 25 May, 2021
      ReviewFT Books Essay
      Simon Schama on Napoleon, the horticultural strategist

      Ruth Scurr’s glorious biography gives the French emperor an unusually fresh look — revealing the conquest-junkie to be a keen botanist 

    • Saturday, 10 April, 2021
      Royal Family
      Prince Philip: the royal yang to the Queen’s yin

      Duke of Edinburgh’s complementary role helped the British monarchy survive

    • Friday, 26 March, 2021
      The best of FT Weekend Spring Festival 20212 min
      Bonnie Greer: ‘Americans have no idea about royalty’

      Simon Schama and Bonnie Greer on the British monarchy and its future

    • Friday, 8 January, 2021
      Donald Trump
      Donald Trump’s weaponised lies blew up in his face

      US Capitol mayhem was the culmination of years of winking at violence

    • Thursday, 17 December, 2020
      FT Books Essay
      Simon Schama on what makes John le Carré a writer of substance

      The spy fiction master ventured well beyond the shadows of espionage to become one of the most perceptive and enduring writers of his age

    • Friday, 30 October, 2020
      Trump vs Biden: essential reading
      Simon Schama: the two Americas

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

    • Friday, 18 September, 2020
      The best of the FT Weekend Festival 20202 min
      Simon Schama: 'Biden is surrounded by really good people'

      Is it finally Joe Biden's time? Anne Applebaum, Edward Luce and Simon Schama discuss

    • Friday, 4 September, 2020
      Life & Arts
      Simon Schama on art’s return to the barricades

      How the passionate creativity of the Romantics helped us to reimagine politics — and why we need their spirit now more than ever

    • Thursday, 20 August, 2020
      FT Books Essay
      ‘Summer’ concludes Ali Smith’s fine quartet

      The final season in the series completes this affecting chronicle of our uneasy times

    • Monday, 17 August, 2020
      Art for the soul: where culture, nature and wellbeing meet
      Storm King: an escape from New York for art lovers

      Simon Schama visits the upstate sculpture park and finds spectacular work that evokes the industrial and the natural

    • Friday, 12 June, 2020
      George Floyd protests
      History is better served by putting the Men in Stone in museums

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

    • Friday, 22 May, 2020
      Life & Arts
      The first thing I’ll do after lockdown is...

      Sailing the Med? Watching Arsenal? A hug? Christine Lagarde, Yuval Noah Harari, Carlo Rovelli and many more on their post-lockdown dream

    • Saturday, 25 April, 2020
      Edwin Heathcote
      When bookshelves are more informative than the books

      Lockdown videos give us a new way to judge character

    • Friday, 10 April, 2020
      Coronavirus: free to read
      Plague time: Simon Schama on what history tells us

      For millennia, epidemics have tested friendships, faith and society. But, amid the horror there is hope

    • Friday, 28 February, 2020
      FT Books Essay
      The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel — ‘majestic and poetic’

      Simon Schama looks at how the novelist reanimates both Cromwell and his world in the last volume of her trilogy

    • Friday, 17 January, 2020
      Life & Arts
      Holocaust Memorial Day: Simon Schama on Auschwitz and the new anti-Semitism

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

    • Friday, 22 November, 2019
      FT Magazine
      Let’s talk turkey: Simon Schama on Thanksgiving

      The historian examines why a comic game bird became a key part of the festivities

    • Wednesday, 13 November, 2019
      Visual Arts
      Charlotte Salomon at the Jewish Museum London — Simon Schama on a modernist masterpiece 

      Shattering and profound, Life? or Theatre? is a great work by a prodigious talent murdered at Auschwitz

    • Friday, 4 October, 2019
      Best of FT Weekend long reads 2019
      Simon Schama: who speaks for the people?

      Liberal institutions are under attack from leaders who claim to embody the popular will

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