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Trakt
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Network: BBC Two
Episode Runtime: 55 min.
Season Runtime: 1120 min.
Status: Ended
Certification: NR

A History of Britain by Simon Schama (2000)

At the Edge of the World? (Sept. 30, 2000, midnight)

The story of Britain from the earliest settlements in 3000 BC to the death of Elizabeth I in 1603. To look back at the past is to understand the present. In this vivid account of over 4,000 years of British history, Simon Schama takes us on an epic journey which encompasses the very beginnings of the nation's identity, when the first settlers landed on Orkney.

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A History of Britain by Simon Schama (2000)

At the Edge of the World? (Sept. 30, 2000, midnight)

The story of Britain from the earliest settlements in 3000 BC to the death of Elizabeth I in 1603. To look back at the past is to understand the present. In this vivid account of over 4,000 years of British history, Simon Schama takes us on an epic journey which encompasses the very beginnings of the nation's identity, when the first settlers landed on Orkney.

79
?
IMDb
8.3
/968/
Trakt
76
/43/
TMDb
80
/8/
Simon Schama
Simon Schama
Himself - Presenter
Michael Kitchen
Michael Kitchen
Reader
Lindsay Duncan
Lindsay Duncan
Reader

Sept. 30, 2000, midnight 9.0

S1E1 - Beginnings (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 and Christian missionaries arrive, fight, settle and leave their mark on what will become the nations of Britain.
Oct. 7, 2000, midnight 9.0

S1E2 - Conquest! (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 French rulers.
Oct. 14, 2000, midnight 9.0

S1E3 - Dynasty (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.
Oct. 21, 2000, midnight 10.0

S1E4 - Nations (1216 - 1348)

Nations 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.
Oct. 28, 2000, midnight 10.0

S1E5 - King Death (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 Englishman emerged.
Nov. 4, 2000, midnight 0.0

S1E6 - Burning Convictions (1500 - 1558)

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.
Nov. 11, 2000, midnight 0.0

S1E7 - The Body of the Queen (1558 - 1603)

This is the story of two queens - Elizabeth I the consummate politician and Mary Queen of Scots the Catholic mother. It is also the story of the birth of a nation.
Network: BBC Two
Episode Runtime: 55 min.
Season Runtime: 1120 min.
Released: Sept. 30, 2000
Last Air Date: June 18, 2002, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR

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