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  • 2012-03-17T20:00:00Z on BBC Two
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  • 3h (3 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
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.

3 episodes

Series Premiere

2012-03-17T20:00:00Z

1x01 A Chosen People?

Series Premiere

1x01 A Chosen People?

  • 2012-03-17T20:00:00Z1h

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.

2012-03-24T20:00:00Z

1x02 A Tolerant People?

1x02 A Tolerant People?

  • 2012-03-24T20:00:00Z1h

Diarmaid MacCulloch explores what it means to be English. He challenges the commonly held assumption that the English have a long tradition of tolerance.

1x03 A White and Christian People?

  • 2012-03-31T19:00:00Z1h

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.

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