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  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    The Weekend Essay
    Simon Schama: when history is weaponised for war

    As Putin appeals to the distant past to justify his invasion of Ukraine, militant nostalgia is on the march around the world

  • Saturday, 5 March, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Putin’s plan is failing in ways he could not have imagined

    The hardware of the Russian invasion may well be operational but the software of its narrative has seized up

  • Monday, 10 January, 2022
    FT Globetrotter
    Many happy returns: the city spaces that bring joy to our correspondents and writers

    Be it New York subway trains, a Frankfurt bakery or a Tokyo karaoke joint, these are the spots that never fail to uplift the FT’s globetrotters

  • Friday, 30 July, 2021
    Life & Arts
    The summer that changed my life

    From Hawaii to the Himalayas, Simon Schama, Lucy Kellaway and other FT writers on the holidays that stayed with them 

  • Thursday, 8 July, 2021
    FT SeriesLetters from New York
    Simon Schama on America’s history wars, race and the flag

    The battles over the country’s founding myths did not begin with ‘woke’ activists, but have been there from the start

  • Tuesday, 25 May, 2021
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    Simon Schama on Napoleon, the horticultural strategist

    Ruth Scurr’s glorious biography gives the French emperor an unusually fresh look — revealing the conquest-junkie to be a keen botanist 

  • Saturday, 10 April, 2021
    Royal Family
    Prince Philip: the royal yang to the Queen’s yin

    Duke of Edinburgh’s complementary role helped the British monarchy survive

  • Friday, 26 March, 2021
    The best of FT Weekend Spring Festival 20212 min
    Bonnie Greer: ‘Americans have no idea about royalty’

    Simon Schama and Bonnie Greer on the British monarchy and its future

  • Friday, 8 January, 2021
    Donald Trump
    Donald Trump’s weaponised lies blew up in his face

    US Capitol mayhem was the culmination of years of winking at violence

  • Thursday, 17 December, 2020
    FT Books Essay
    Simon Schama on what makes John le Carré a writer of substance

    The spy fiction master ventured well beyond the shadows of espionage to become one of the most perceptive and enduring writers of his age

  • Friday, 30 October, 2020
    Trump vs Biden: essential reading
    Simon Schama: the two Americas

    LBJ, MLK and what the dramas of 1965 can teach a polarised nation

  • Friday, 18 September, 2020
    The best of the FT Weekend Festival 20202 min
    Simon Schama: 'Biden is surrounded by really good people'

    Is it finally Joe Biden's time? Anne Applebaum, Edward Luce and Simon Schama discuss

  • Friday, 4 September, 2020
    Life & Arts
    Simon Schama on art’s return to the barricades

    How the passionate creativity of the Romantics helped us to reimagine politics — and why we need their spirit now more than ever

  • Thursday, 20 August, 2020
    FT Books Essay
    ‘Summer’ concludes Ali Smith’s fine quartet

    The final season in the series completes this affecting chronicle of our uneasy times

  • Monday, 17 August, 2020
    Art for the soul: where culture, nature and wellbeing meet
    Storm King: an escape from New York for art lovers

    Simon Schama visits the upstate sculpture park and finds spectacular work that evokes the industrial and the natural

  • Friday, 12 June, 2020
    George Floyd protests
    History is better served by putting the Men in Stone in museums

    Changing attitudes towards racial injustice will affect who we consider tolerable and who intolerable to memorialise

  • Friday, 22 May, 2020
    Life & Arts
    The first thing I’ll do after lockdown is...

    Sailing the Med? Watching Arsenal? A hug? Christine Lagarde, Yuval Noah Harari, Carlo Rovelli and many more on their post-lockdown dream

  • Saturday, 25 April, 2020
    Edwin Heathcote
    When bookshelves are more informative than the books

    Lockdown videos give us a new way to judge character

  • Friday, 10 April, 2020
    Coronavirus: free to read
    Plague time: Simon Schama on what history tells us

    For millennia, epidemics have tested friendships, faith and society. But, amid the horror there is hope

  • Friday, 28 February, 2020
    FT Books Essay
    The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel — ‘majestic and poetic’

    Simon Schama looks at how the novelist reanimates both Cromwell and his world in the last volume of her trilogy

  • Friday, 17 January, 2020
    Life & Arts
    Holocaust Memorial Day: Simon Schama on Auschwitz and the new anti-Semitism

    Seventy-five years after the camp’s liberation, remembrance is more important than ever

  • Friday, 22 November, 2019
    FT Magazine
    Let’s talk turkey: Simon Schama on Thanksgiving

    The historian examines why a comic game bird became a key part of the festivities

  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2019
    Visual Arts
    Charlotte Salomon at the Jewish Museum London — Simon Schama on a modernist masterpiece 

    Shattering and profound, Life? or Theatre? is a great work by a prodigious talent murdered at Auschwitz

  • Friday, 4 October, 2019
    Best of FT Weekend long reads 2019
    Simon Schama: who speaks for the people?

    Liberal institutions are under attack from leaders who claim to embody the popular will

  • Friday, 20 September, 2019
    Life & Arts8 min
    Brexit, populism and climate change - FT weekend festival 2019

    Leading writers including Simon Schama, Alastair Campbell, Janine Gibson and Lionel Barber reflect on our times

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