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SUMMARY:THE FUTURE OF THE PAST AT THE BBC - Martin Davidson\, History Comm
 issioning Editor\, BBC\; &amp\; Professor Helen Weinstein
DTSTART:20130515T160000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Bernhard Fulda
DESCRIPTION:This session will see Martin Davidson\, the BBC's History Comm
 issioning Editor\, and Professor Helen Weinstein\, Founding Director of th
 e Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past (York)\, discuss the 
 production\, impact and legacy of the BBC's landmark series\, 'A History o
 f Britain'. This 15-part documentary series\, presented by Simon Schama an
 d broadcast by BBC1 between 2000 and 2002\, has been hailed as both cause 
 & symptom of the 'history boom' of the early 2000s. Martin Davidson was th
 e Executive Producer of the series\, and is now Britain's most influential
  TV executive in the field of history productions. Helen Weinstein is curr
 ently writing a cultural history of 'A History of Britain'. \n
LOCATION:Old Library\, Sidney Sussex College
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