''How God Made the English'' was a British documentary series about the English national identity and its history. It was shown on

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and hosted by

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

Diarmaid MacCulloch Diarmaid Ninian John MacCulloch (; born 31 October 1951) is an English academic and historian, specialising in ecclesiastical history and the history of Christianity. Since 1995, he has been a fellow of St Cross College, Oxford; he was former ...

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* * 2012 British television series debuts BBC television documentaries English-language television shows {{UK-nonfiction-tv-prog-stub