Stretching from the Stone Age to the calendar year 2000,'' Simon Schama History of Britain does not pretend to be a definitive chronicle of the events which buffeted and shaped the British Isles. What Schama does do will be telling the story in vivid and gripping narrative terms, free of this fustiness of academe, by studying the characters at the middle of 40, siphoned key historic events. Maybe not many historians could approve of the annals depicted here as shaped by the activities of men and women as opposed to by more abstract advancements, however, Schama's way of telling it is a good bit as a outcome. Schama gives lie to the idea that Britain's annals has been moderate and temperate, passing down the generations steering away from sillier , ones that are revolutionary although taking on board sensible ideas. Nonsense. History the way it had been -- times and as bloody, convulsive, precarious, hot blooded within an inch of haring off on a completely different course is retold by schama. Schama seems to pleasure in the goriness of history. Topics came back to include the wars between the Scots and the Irish and the battles. As Britain becomes a constitutional monarchy,'' Schama talks not as much Kings and Queens but. Still, along with his direct fashion and against an visual and aural background, Schama makes history seem as though it happened , that the bloodstains not tender.