Saturday, July 2, 2016

At the Edge of the World

Author: Simon Schama
Stars: 4
Review by: Mandy Apgar


The first part of his History of Britain series, and the only one that I can tolerate watching. Don't ask me why, but I love the episode on the plague. I'm odd like that. But this starts at the beginnings of human habitation on one particular large rock in the Atlantic and covers past Becket, Bosworth Field, Henry VIII, and ends with the death of Elizabeth I. Major sections are on Elizabeth, her father of course, the tricky period before him, those pesky Plantagenents (why, oh why couldn't they get along?) and Becket's assassination, "King Death" - the plague and its aftereffects, early rebellions like Boudicca (or however you spell it), William Wallace, and such.
 

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