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

and Virginia is very, very salient. voice-verified

And it is something that threatens to derail the whole project of, say, issuing a declaration of independence. voice-verified

And the great achievement of the rebels in the war is not just to defeat the British, but to forge a genuine sense that these are United States. voice-verified

Well, I think that would be pushing it too far because Britain at this time is also seizing much of India. voice-verified

So there is no question the British are imperially minded. voice-verified

I mean, George Washington is the classic example of this. voice-verified

He is hard up. voice-verified

He's looking to make land deals further west. voice-verified

And as he sees it, kind of the British are saying no to this. voice-verified

So, I mean, Washington in the American context is much more of an expansionist, colonialist figure than George III, for instance. voice-verified

I can absolutely imagine a world in which... voice-verified

America and Britain, their common political language remains something that unites rather than separates. voice-verified

And one of the ways that this goes off piste in what becomes the war is the fact that the rebel colonists voice-verified

are weaponizing a very specific English language and English vocabulary of liberty. voice-verified

So when the rebels in, say, Massachusetts are opposing the colonial government, they're doing it in the context of what they call English liberties. voice-verified

they're looking to England as the source for the ideology that they are then using to turn against British rule. voice-verified

John Locke. voice-verified

And that is... John Locke and the... Well, yes. voice-verified

So, obviously, it expresses itself in various ways with the kind of the key figures in the American Revolution. voice-verified

So, if you look at Thomas Jefferson, he becomes, I think, pretty anglophobic. voice-verified

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