About this season
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 (3)
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E1
1. A Chosen People?
Aired 17 March 2012 • 60 min
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.
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E2
2. A Tolerant People?
Aired 24 March 2012 • 60 min
Diarmaid MacCulloch explores what it means to be English. He challenges the commonly held assumption that the English have a long tradition of tolerance.
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E3
3. A White and Christian People?
Aired 31 March 2012 • 60 min
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.