“The Stuarts: is it still possible to make a ‘British’ TV programme on the history of Scotland?”
Mark Lawson, The Guardian
“The Stuarts doesn’t give light, sideways glances. These are history lessons.”
Grace Dent, The Independent
“For all the BBC’s great roster of factual specialists, from Sir David Attenborough to Brian Cox and, lately, the historian Clare Jackson, watching the oeuvre of this great American documentary maker does raise the question: “Where is our Ken Burns?”
Ian Burrell, The Independent