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How God Made the English

Diarmaid MacCulloch

Gillian Bancroft

Jean-Claude Bragard

How God Made the English: Episode 3: A White and Christian People?

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Episode 3: A White and Christian People?

A White and Christian People?

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Diarmaid MacCulloch examines the idea that there is an ethnic core to Englishness.

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.

The final programme of this series examines the idea that there is an ethnic core to Englishness. Is there any basis for the claim that to be truly English you have to be Anglo-Saxon? And what about the fact that until very recently being English also meant being Church of England Christian?

In this series Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch has been arguing that God made the English. But did he also make them white and Christian?

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Historian Diarmaid MacCulloch explores what it means to be English.

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.

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