How God Made the English

{{Short description|2012 British history TV series}}

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| director = Anna Cox (episodes 1 and 2)
Gillian Bancroft (episode 3)

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| presenter = Diarmaid MacCulloch

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| language = English

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How God Made the English was a British documentary series about the English national identity and its history.{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01dxrhg |title=How God Made the English |publisher=BBC |accessdate=5 November 2012}} It was shown on BBC Two and hosted by historian Diarmaid MacCulloch.

Episode list

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| Title = A Chosen People?

| DirectedBy = Anna Cox

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| EpisodeNumber = 2

| Title = A Tolerant People?

| DirectedBy = Anna Cox

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| Title = A White and Christian People?

| DirectedBy = Gillian Bancroft

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A Chosen People?

In the first episode Bede’s history is suggested as the origin of the English identity as a Chosen people by God.

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