Roifield and David's Stories of England in 50 Objects
The History of England
David Crowther
4.8 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Roifield and David talk about 5stories of England as part of the Very English Chat project, to tell stories of England in 50 objects.
‘A very English chat’ works is a wonderful project to escape division and polarisation, and the arid quarrels about flags - to build and celebrate a sense of Englishness, as part of a build up to England's national day, St George's Day on 23rd April. We are all invited to share our own 5 objects to be included in a virtual ‘pocket museum’ telling ‘The story of England 2026 in 50 objects.
To take part in a conversation between parishioners of the History of England, add your comment below, or go to the History of England Facebook Group.
To share your 5 objects for submission to the Pocket Museum of Englishness, please go to the A Very English Chat site.
I'd love to hear from you - and have fun celebrating a shared, positive and inclusive vision of Englishness means to us.
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| 0:00.0 | It was the best of time. |
| 0:02.2 | It was the work. She wants the people's princess. It'll fight on the beaches. Oh, man. These are the things that made England. A little fight on the landing ground. These are the things that made England. I have a body but of a weak and evil woman. These are the things that made England. And a king of England too. These are the things that made England. |
| 0:22.5 | Cry God for Harry! |
| 0:24.8 | And these are the things that made England. |
| 0:26.8 | And St George! |
| 0:29.5 | These are the things that made England. |
| 0:33.9 | Hello everyone and welcome to a special edition of the Things That Made England, |
| 0:36.4 | which you may or may not already know. |
| 0:39.3 | The things that made England are a collaboration between yourself and Broadfield Brown, all about the things that make us English, wallowing in |
| 0:45.6 | English culture and all that sort of thing. So it just so happens that very recently a new |
| 0:51.9 | initiative has been started leading up to |
| 0:54.8 | 2026's St George's Day, 23rd of April. And it's called a very English chat. And the idea is to |
| 1:02.8 | build a pocket museum of objects that express each of our individual feeling about Englishness, |
| 1:09.6 | how we feel about being English, the things we love about it, little cultural artifacts or whatever it might be. |
| 1:15.9 | So, Royford and I thought we'd take part, did we not, Rothfield? |
| 1:18.5 | Well, you dragooned me into this, but I... |
| 1:21.0 | Well, that's an outrage. That's an outrage. |
| 1:23.4 | You phoned me up and said, let's restart the things that made England, which we might do, by the way, everyone, just, you know. |
| 1:30.4 | So I dragged Roy Ford into this and kicking you and screaming, he came and joined me, as you can tell. |
| 1:37.3 | So people like Billy Bragg, Caroline Lucas are trying to build a sense of positive patriotism and social cohesion around what it |
| 1:46.7 | means to be English. A society where, of course, we're very diverse. And politically at the moment, |
| 1:52.4 | there's a lot of division and polarisation. So we want to all gather around the things that we all |
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