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The French Revolution sent shock-waves through Britain. While some watched transfixed, others were horrified. Simon Schama explores why the British proved immune to the siren call of liberty, equality ...

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 saga ...

Lee Raye received small research grants from the Society for the History of Natural History to carry out some of the archive work which contributed to this article. Lee is the author of The Atlas of ...