[RG] BBC A History Of Britain DVDRip

A History of Britain is a BBC documentary series written and presented by Simon Schama
first transmitted in the United Kingdom from 30 September 2000

A study of the history of the British Isles, each of the 15 episodes allows Schama to
examine a particular period and tell of its events in his own style. All the programmes
are of 59 minutes' duration and were broadcast over three series, ending 18 June 2002

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Episode List:

1. "Beginnings"

Covering the period 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

2. "Conquest"

Broadcast 7 October 2000 and covering 1000-1087. 1066 is not the best remembered
date in British history for nothing. In the space of nine hours whilst the Battle of Hastings
raged, everything changed. Anglo-Saxon England became Norman and, for the next 300
years, its fate was decided by dynasties of Norman rulers

3. "Dynasty"

Broadcast 14 October 2000 and covering 1087-1216. There is no saga more powerful
than that of the warring dynasty domineering father, beautiful, scheming mother and
squabbling, murderous sons and daughters, (particularly the nieces). In the years that
followed the Norman Conquest, this was the drama played out on the stage of British history

4. "Nations"

Broadcast 21 October 2000 and covering 1216-1348, this is the epic account of how the
nations of Britain emerged from under the hammer of England's "Longshanks" King Edward
I, with a sense of who and what they were, which endures to this day

5. "King death"

Broadcast 28 October 2000 and covering 1348-1500. It took only six years for the plague
to ravage the British Isles. Its impact was to last for generations. But from the ashes of this
trauma an unexpected and unique class of Englishmen emerged

6. "Burning convictions"

Broadcast 4 November 2000 and covering 1500-58. Here Simon Schama charts the upheaval
caused as a country renowned for its piety, whose king styled himself Defender of the Faith
turns into one of the most aggressive proponents of the new Protestant faith

7. "The body of the Queen"

Broadcast 8 November 2000 and covering 1558-1603. This is the story of two queens:
Elizabeth I of England, the consummate politician, and Mary I, Queen of Scots, the Catholic
mother. It is also the story of the birth of a nation

8. "The British wars"

Broadcast 8 May 2001 and covering 1603-1649. The turbulent civil wars of the early
seventeenth century would culminate in two events unique to British history; the public
execution of a king and the creation of a republic. Schama tells of the brutal war that tore
the country in half and created a new Britain - divided by politics and religion and dominated
by the first truly modern army, fighting for ideology, not individual leaders

9. "Revolutions"

Broadcast 15 May 2001 and covering 1649-1689. Political and religious revolutions racked
Britain after Charles I's execution, when Britain was a joyless, kingless republic led by
Oliver Cromwell. His rule became so unpopular that for many it was a relief when the monarchy
was restored after his death, but Cromwell was also a man of vision who brought about
significant reforms

10. "Britannia incorporated"

Broadcast 22 May 2001 and covering 1690-1750. As the new century dawned, relations
between Scotland and England had never been worse. Yet half a century later the two
countries would be making a future together based on profit and interest. The new Britain
was based on money, not God

11. "The wrong empire"

Broadcast 29 May 2001 and covering 1750-1800. The series is the exhilarating and terrible
story of how the British Empire came into being through its early settlements - the Caribbean
through the sugar plantations (and helped by slavery), the land that later became the United
States and India through the British East India Company--and how it eventually came to
dominate the world. A story of exploration and daring, but also one of exploitation, conflict
and loss

12. "Forces of nature"

Broadcast 28 May 2002 and covering 1780-1832. Britain never had the kind of revolution
experienced by France in 1789, but it did come close. In the mid-1770s the country was
intoxicated by a great surge of political energy. Re-discovering England's wildernesses, the
intellectuals of the "romantic generation" also discovered the plight of the common man
turning nature into a revolutionary force

13. "Victoria and her sisters"

Broadcast 4 June 2002 and covering 1830-1910. As the Victorian era began, the massive
advance of technology and industrialisation 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

14. "The empire of good intentions"

Broadcast 11 June 2002 and covering 1830-1925. This episode charts the chequered life of
the liberal empire from Ireland to India - the promise of civilisation and material betterment
and the delivery of coercion and famine

15. "The two Winstons"

Broadcast 18 June 2002 and 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 his 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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