How God Made the English
2012 · Documentary · 1 Season · 3 Episodes ·
Historian Diarmaid MacCulloch explores both what it means to be English and what has shaped English identity, from the Dark Ages, through the Reformation to modern times.
E11. A Chosen People?Diarmaid MacCulloch explores what it means to be English. In this episode, he chronicles the roots of the idea that the English think themselves better than others.E22. A Tolerant People?Diarmaid MacCulloch explores what it means to be English. He challenges the commonly held assumption that the English have a long tradition of tolerance.E33. A White and Christian People?Diarmaid MacCulloch explores what it means to be English. In the final programme, he examines the idea that there is an ethnic core to Englishness.
