Ged concludes his journey through the history of British Christianity in the second half of the twentieth century. Billy Graham’s crusades make a huge impact on Evangelicalism in Britain.
Britain enters the twentieth century. Ged explores the role churches played in British society during World War 2, and the early days of religious broadcasting.
We take a look at some of the Christian groups that responded to the social needs of the nineteenth century, including the Abolitionist movement and the Salvation Army.
Christian life in Victorian Britain. Industrialisation brings with it lots of opportunities and also several challenges.
The Great Fire of London in 1666 destroys St Paul’s Cathedral. John Wesley gets on his horse and kickstarts the Methodist movement.
This episode explores Guy Fawkes’s Gunpowder Plot, Oliver Cromwell, the Civil War, the Pilgrim Fathers and the Puritans.
After Henry VIII’s death in 1547, his children – King Edward VI and Queens Mary I and Elizabeth I – preside over an era of violent persecution and destruction.
We’re now at the Reformation. King Henry VIII initiates the split of the Church in England from Rome, sowing the seeds for the birth of the Anglican Church.
In the aftermath of bubonic plague (aka “the black death”), people’s attitudes start to change – particularly towards religion and the Church. Luther challenges the authority of Rome, and John Wycliffe’s Bible translation ruffles feathers.
We enter the Norman period and take a look into Britain’s Medieval Christian history. The eleventh century was a period of intense church building in Britain.
Ged visits a Buckinghamshire church that’s over 1100 years old, and discovers the Lindisfarne Gospels.
After the Romans left Britain, the Saxons stepped in, ushering in the period known as the Dark Ages. The Celts start to develop their own Christian traditions. St Augustine arrives in Britain in 597 AD, and becomes the first Archbishop of Canterbury.
The series opens with Ged exploring the blossoming of Christianity in Britain when it was under Romans occupation from 43 AD to 410 AD.
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