Shakespeare and History Plays Reaching Mass Audiences

What does hip hop have in common with Herodotus? In this lecture celebrated historian Simon Schama explores the tradition of public history drawing on Walter Scott, Thomas Carlyle, Winston Churchill and Lin-Manuel Miranda. http://media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/humdiv/humanitas/2016-05-01-humdiv-torch-schama-past-publics-2.mp4 http://media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/humdiv/humanitas/2016-05-02-humdiv-torch-schama-public-history-2.mp4