Making Room for Conscience

This item is part of the Alumni Weekend 2007 collection of the Alumni Office. To view more media from the Alumni Office, please visit the Alumni Office video page.

The Abolition of the Slave Trade in America and Britain. Internationally-renowned historian Professor Simon Schama was an undergraduate, and later Fellow, at Christ's College, Cambridge before becoming Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Brasenose College, Oxford. He then spent 13 years as professor at Harvard and is currently Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University in New York, where he specialises in European cultural and environmental history and the history of art.

Professor Schama is well known for his award-winning books including Landscape and Memory, Dead Certainties, Rembrandt's Eyes and Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution. He has also written and presented the BBC documentary series A History of Britain, The Power of Art, and Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution, the little-known history of thousands of African-American slaves who fought for the British in the American War of Independence.

Since 1995, he has been art and culture critic for The New Yorker and essayist for The Guardian, and was made a CBE in the 2001 New Year's Honours list.

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Education

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• Cambridge University
• Conscience
• Alumni Weekend
• 2007
• Slave Trade
• Abolition
• Professor Simon Schama
• Fellow
• A History of Britain
• The Power of Art
• Rough Crossings
• War of Independence
• Honours List
• CBE

[hutetu]

Please make the rest of the lecture available.

[cggthefirst]

This is a great lecture. I hope my students will watch it.

[myloverisbillmurray]

yes it is obvious that he had to at least finish his sentance...please upload or at least put us out of our misery...does the rest of this exist?

[3NUNS]

good head of hair fir an intellectual but his suit is a bit tight around the shoulders

[3NUNS]

@ying2ong : Blame Himmler !

[3NUNS]

I don't like this gentleman's historical method.

[antidisenstable]

I've not watched this video yet, but will soon; Simon Schama is a great man, I'm really looking forward to watching this, I've just stumbled upon it here on You Tube.

[ying2ong]

What an interesting lecture and what a shame it comes to an abrupt end when; apparently, Simon Schama has more to say. Is the rest of it available elsewhere?