Anti-Catholicism in England
Anti-Catholicism is hostility towards Catholics or opposition to the Catholic Church, its clergy, and/or its adherents. At various points after the Reformation, some majority Protestant states, including England, Prussia, Scotland, and the United States, turned anti-Catholicism, opposition to the Pope (anti-Papalism), mockery of Catholic rituals, and opposition to Catholic adherents into major political themes.
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Foxe's Book of Martyrs
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Foxe's Book of Martyrs, the celebrated sixteenth-century account of the suffering of Christian martyrs.
18 November 2010
Featuring: Diarmaid MacCulloch, Justin Champion, Elizabeth Evenden
The Dissolution of the Monasteries
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Henry VIII and the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Was Henry’s policy an act of grand larceny or the pious destruction of a corrupt institution?
27 March 2008
Featuring: Diarmaid MacCulloch, Diane Purkiss, George Bernard
The Glorious Revolution
Melvyn Bragg examines the Glorious Revolution of 1688 but were the events of 1688 really either Glorious or Revolutionary?
19 April 2001
Featuring: John Spurr, Rosemary Sweet, Scott Mandelbrote
HistoryMary II, William III of EnglandInvasions of EnglandAnti-Catholicism in the United KingdomMonarchy of the United KingdomAnti-Catholicism in EnglandSuccession to the British crownCivil wars in EnglandAnti-Catholicism in ScotlandStuart England, The RestorationJames II of EnglandAnti-Catholicism in WalesThe Gordon Riots
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why a Westminster protest against 'Popery' in June 1780 led to widespread rioting across London, lethally suppressed.
2 May 2019
Featuring: Ian Haywood, Catriona Kennedy, Mark Knights
The Hanoverian Succession
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the struggle by Whig politicians in London to have a Protestant from Hanover crowned at Westminster Abbey rather than the Catholic son of James II.
28 November 2024
Featuring: Andreas Gestrich, Elaine Chalus, Mark Knights