Aske 's boy 's school , in Hampstead , is where Simon Schama studied .
Schama won a scholarship to the independent Haberdashers ' Aske 's Boys ' School in Borehamwood in Hertfordshire , followed by Christ 's College at the University of Cambridge , reading history under J. H. Plumb and graduating with a Starred First in 1966.He worked for short periods as a lecturer in history at Cambridge , where he became a Fellow and Director of Studies in History , and at Oxford where he was made a Fellow of Brasenose College in 1976 , specialising in the French Revolution .
Simon Schama