Long (45-70 mins)
History
Unknown
How God Made the English - A White and Christian People?
Theologian
Diarmaid MacCulloch
Duration
59.04
Uploaded to YouTube
4 April 2012
Added to Database
15 September 2025
YouTube description
BBC Programme 2012 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?