What inspired your new series, Simon Schama's History of Now?
The series was always meant to be personal: a look back at the moments when my own life and world events touched each other. I was born during one of the last V2 raids on London in early 1945, and grew up with a strong sense of how history could take a brutal turn. Learning about the Holocaust only strengthened that instinct.
I seem to have been in places where history turned. I was in the US South in 1964 when the [explored in Schama's 2020 series ]. My own history and wider world history have been interwoven.
