Tom Holland

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195 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 1 Jul

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On the Media · The Rest Is History · 1 Jul 2026 podcast

It's not even the most important event in the history of America. voice-verified

It's not even the most important revolution that happens in the late 18th century, to be honest. voice-verified

I mean, just to broaden it out on why maybe it doesn't have the saliency in the British imagination that the French Revolution does. voice-verified

It relates to your question. voice-verified

I think for... voice-verified

For people in Britain, the American War of Independence, the American Revolution, whatever you want to call it, is part of a broader continuum, which is the English-speaking Atlantic world. voice-verified

And there is a case for saying that the War of Independence is a British civil war. voice-verified

It's another civil war in the line that descends from the civil wars that rent Great Britain and Ireland back in the 17th century. voice-verified

And a lot of the tensions and conflicts that gave rise to the war in the 17th century were exported to the New World. voice-verified

So whether it's the Puritans in Massachusetts or the Quakers in Philadelphia or the Catholics in Maryland, those religious tensions to us are very familiar. voice-verified

And they seem, certainly to me, very, very religious. voice-verified

And just as in the 18th century in Britain – voice-verified

those religious tensions kind of blur and fade into what you might call kind of enlightenment dynamics. voice-verified

The same thing seems to be happening in America. voice-verified

And that's why voice-verified

There are lots of people in Britain who are backing the American rebels, just as obviously there are lots of people who are opposing them. voice-verified

And I think that the conflict makes best sense when seen in the Atlantic context, rather than being seen as something that is merely bred of American concerns, because those concerns exist in the broader kind of Anglosphere dimension, I think. voice-verified

Well, it varies. voice-verified

It varies from colony to colony. voice-verified

And the difference in character between, say, Massachusetts and New York and Pennsylvania voice-verified

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