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S01E03 - "A White and Christian People?"
Aired on Mar 31, 2012, 7:00 PM
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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.
Episodes (1 Season · 3 Episodes)
E1
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.
Mar 17, 2012
60 min
E2
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.
Mar 24, 2012
60 min
E3
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.
Mar 31, 2012
60 min
