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A History of Britain (2000) is a documentary web series in English. On MovieLinkBD: full story, cast, ratings, season & episode guide, official trailer and where to watch A History of Britain online in HD.

A History of Britain — Storyline

Stretching from the Stone Age to the year 2000, Simon Schama's Complete History of Britain does not pretend to be a definitive chronicle of the turbulent events which buffeted and shaped the British Isles. What Schama does do, however, is tell the story in vivid and gripping narrative terms, free of the fustiness of traditional academe, personalising key historical events by examining the major characters at the centre of them. Not all historians would approve of the history depicted here as shaped principally by the actions of great men and women rather than by more abstract developments, but Schama's way of telling it is a good deal more enthralling as a result.

Schama successfully gives lie to the idea that the history of Britain has been moderate and temperate, passing down the generations as stately as a galleon, taking on board sensible ideas but steering clear of sillier, revolutionary ones. Nonsense. Schama retells British history the way it was–as bloody, convulsive, precarious, hot-blooded and several times within an inch of haring off onto an entirely different course. Schama seems almost to delight in the goriness of history. Themes returned to repeatedly include the wars between the Scots and the Irish and the Catholic/Protestant conflicts–only the Irish question remains unresolved by the new millennium. As Britain becomes a constitutional monarchy, Schama talks less of Kings and Queens but of poets and idea-makers like Orwell. Still, with his pungent, direct manner and against an evocative visual and aural backdrop, Schama makes history seem as though it happened yesterday, the bloodstains not yet dry.

Cast & Crew

• Starring: Simon Schama, Michael Kitchen, Lindsay Duncan

A History of Britain — Series Details

A History of Britain — Episode Guide

At the Edge of the World?

• E1: Beginnings (3100 BC – 1000 AD) (2000-09-30) — 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, fig
• E2: Conquest! (1000 – 1087) (2000-10-07) — 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
• E3: Dynasty (1087 – 1216) (2000-10-14) — 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 nie
• E4: Nations (1216 – 1348) (2000-10-21) — 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 endur
• E5: King Death (1348 – 1500) (2000-10-28) — 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 Engli
• E6: Burning Convictions (1500 – 1558) (2000-11-04) — 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
• E7: The Body of the Queen (1558 – 1603) (2000-11-11) — 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.

The British Wars

• E1: The British Wars (1603 – 1649) (2001-05-08) — 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. Sc
• E2: Revolutions (1649 – 1689) (2001-05-15) — In the aftermath of Civil War, Britain was a kingless republic led by Oliver Cromwell. Cromwell ruled with an iron hand; when Parliament dared defy him, he marched in and closed it
• E3: Britannia Incorporated (1690 – 1750) (2001-05-22) — In 1690s England, the victors of the Glorious Revolution celebrated the dawn of a new era under a new king – William III. In Scotland, the Jacobites still supported the deposed Kin
• E4: The Wrong Empire (1750 – 1800) (2001-05-29) — How did a people who thought themselves free end up subjugating so much of the world, a nation with such a distrust of armies become the greatest military power on Earth, an empire

The Fate of Empire

• E1: Forces of Nature (1780 – 1832) (2002-05-28) — Britain never had the kind of revolution France experienced in 1789, but came close to it. This programme explains how 'the romantic generation' discovered the politics of sympathy
• E2: Victoria and Her Sisters (1830 – 1910) (2002-06-04) — Queen Victoria came to the throne at the tender age of eighteen, to rule over a country in the throes of a painful but supercharged industrial transformation. Chaos and revolution
• E3: The Empire of Good Intentions (1830 – 1925) (2002-06-11) — The British Empire promised peace, stability and prosperity but in Ireland and India it coincided with violence and famine. The programme examines the origins of agonies which con
• E4: The Two Winstons (1910 – present) (2002-06-18) — Schama's last programme is a meditation on the place of the past in Britain's 20th-century history. Personified in the sharply different reactions of two of its greatest figures,

Frequently Asked Questions

How many seasons does A History of Britain have? 3 season(s) with 15 episodes.

Where can I watch A History of Britain? See the Where to Watch section above for current streaming options.