Simon Schama on Public History

Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge by Oxford University

May 20, 201691:15Education

What does hip hop have in common with Herodotus? In this lecture celebrated historian Simon Schama explores the tradition of public history drawing on Walter Scott, Thomas Carlyle, Winston Churchill and Lin-Manuel Mirand...

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