Simon Schama explores the history of British portraiture. Simon looks at portraits of the famous and examines the celebrated faces of Britain's past and present.

At one point during Simon Schama’s Story of Us (BBC Two), the historian listed some of the people who made programmes for the BBC’s groundbreaking Open Door series.

It was a year ago that historian Simon Schama guided History Channel viewers through the first one-third of his history of Britain. He returns this week to tell the middle portion of the story, a ...

Object Details author Schama, Simon Contents Part I: The face of power. The face of Britain ; Saviours ; Reins of power ; Bigwigs ; Attack portraiture ; Family album ; Absent one cigar -- Part II: The ...