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Title: Very sharp series..
Review: After having covered some British history only briefly in a college "western civ" class, it was enormously gratifying to come across a series that brings the subject alive, just as Simon Schama has done here; yes, there are some spots where I thought perhaps he could have gone into (I would have liked to hear a bit more about post-Roman England and about St. Anselm, whose conduct as Archbishop of Canterbury gives an idea about why Becket might have acted as he did,) but the severe nature of Henry VIII's "reformation" of the English church was brought out in such stark nature, that it ended up raising my awareness of some of the other critical transformations involving Church and government of the time. Schama is frank (even blunt), very clear, and enormously fun to take in. Bravo!
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