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The English in America

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Historian and author James Evans talks to us about his new book Emigrants, which explains why hundreds of thousands of English people decided to make a new life in the Americas during the 17th century. He also explores the challenges of migrating to the New World Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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That was James Evans, talking to us about English migration to the Americas Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine.

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Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast.

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I'm Rob Atar, the editor of BBC History

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Magazine. For today's episode, we've been joined by the historian and TV producer James Evans,

1:53.6

who is the author of a new book entitled Emigrants, Why the English Sailed to the New World.

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The book seeks to explain why several hundred thousand people

2:03.4

departed England for the Americas in the 17th century

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