Anglo-German Relations (TRIH ep 67)
1889 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook survey Anglo‑German relations across the centuries, prompted by a contemporary England–Germany football tie. They trace imagined kinship from Bede’s account of the Angles and early missionaries such as Augustine and Saint Boniface, move through medieval interactions (Hanseatic trade, Richard of Cornwall), and to the Reformation and Tudor entanglements. The conversation emphasizes the Thirty Years' War’s impact on English Puritanism and figures like Prin...
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