History of Britain the Anglo Saxon Invasion

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and describes the Britons sunk untruestatement

off to the departure Rome true

think only revived by a massive infusionof anglosaxon blood from the other side

more see on these robust tribesmenarrived in boats along the eastern

shores

Britain it was a brave new world inwhich

dark forests uphold and englanderstrouble ins

there is no archaeological Evans for theanglosaxon

page the traditional story in the makinga pin

is complete wrong

real story reshape our future and

rewrite of home

on

as an island people


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we Brits have been obsessed with theidea invasion and the story of the

arrival of the anglosaxons

has long been accepted as a part ofartist

I'm going to shop but the myth from theanglosaxon invasion

is just leadingedge archaeology isbeginning to reexamine the dramatic

changes that took place in this country

in the centuries often the Roman troopsto partner

and a very different story to the onewhich we have become accustomed

he managed

just before World War truearchaeologists in soccer

uncovered one of the greatest

discoveries apartheid the anglosaxon

burial moms

Sutton Hoo good


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having peak explains missus prettydecided to investigate the burial mounds

on her property

she rang up its him and ask for adviceon freelance archaeologist

it seems like another world where landin a complete game plan archaeologists

to

open that burial mounds but that's whathappened well

in my one over there he discovered anintact ship

and burial chamber when news

just got out archaeologist CambridgeUniversity in the fridge him came in to

help

and the most fabulous extraordinaryarchaeological treasure was discovered

there

my the excavations revealed


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the burial chamber a person in a woodenshape he was accompanied by a well for

fabulous on checks this was the graveproblem

very rich man helmets incredibly rare

special headgear seems to be appropriatefor a king

as it still is today he's got

other things like the strange wit's endthis made interceptor

polish in the middle layer hand canal isa little cup which puts it on on easing

holder set to like a modern king

some people feel very strong Swedishinsurance

some people see a very strong classicalByzantine influence

other people say that he's got a bit ofeverything is trying out a lot of

different

different methods of making a seatheater an important ruling if the


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spangles

well I'm seventh century parts a Britonto become a series of politically

powerful kingdoms

later to be known as being do yousuppose

a boatload of anglosaxon royal familycame sailing up a deepening

for will P this is the place for me gotoff the boat and set up by Kingdom here

the origin myths that we have recordedby people like be

do seem to indicate that in the fifthcentury

boatloads if royalty did throw up thinkworld

I'm sure we'll create my kingdom herethat's at but we just don't have any

archaeological evidence to back it uptalk what seems much more likely

is that time that by some process if

internal social development Kings arose


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at some point in the late th century

and then decided to kind creates thisits origin myth to explain where they

come from

probably they just murdered and foughttheir way to the top but they wanted to

say they'd always been royal

in fact that descended from a calltonight well

some who is the most elaborate to thenumber I rich

anglosaxon burials over the south andeast to britain archaeologists the

divided about where these powerful newleaders

came from ok

Hakka favors the idea they wereinvaded

until Sutton was found

capital was the richest in the sectiongrave in England


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your he's big and the sex and barriersof the th century

were very often located on the types ofbridges taking

up the dominant position in thelandscape demonstrates

who you are your family hungry cock

believes an invasion is the best way toexplaining the changes in culture

the took place after the Romans left

why do we have to have migrations

it's very difficult to true that peoplecame here

in large numbers from abroad Francesabelieves you can earn

demonstrate that this is still given theevidence

the best possible explanation

Joe argument is we do not meet in

migrations to explain culture changethis is essentially the underlying


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argument yeah I agree with that andactually at the moment

you look to russia postsoviet Russiayou see a huge culture change

but it has not brought in by immigrantwesterners

it is market there of course you can say

there's no proof that they came here andI accept that we cannot trace them

across the North Sea

but it is still the best explanation Ithink I'd love to agree with you

only I comp see any outsiders were tocome here without there being one

helluva fight

and there is no evidence for a struggleif people move on to my land

I'm not happy about that see if you'rethere you are not

right so you think people you think thatpeople would actually moved art

my programs for that after the collapseof a civilization


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you do have population decline if the ispopulation decline

there was also a space more space in thelandscape than that was

in the Roman system I don't believe

you that there was a whole in Britishsociety if anything

you know the taxes will remove I wouldhave thought people said both picky

it's Christmas I don't have to pay taxesI'm much better off

I'm so when the room is that peopleactually probably got more prosperous

some very much a farmer's

you I I would of course I like that

palmer's be or not the invasionexplanation just

not whenever archaeologist can't explain

a period of social change or innovation

the beach for the catchall explanationnew people

invasion


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but that isn't actually any evidence tosupport this store we just calm

prove them

science how ima is trying at UniversityCollege London

professor genetics Mark Thomas and hiskeep

have conducted a survey the DNA in theBritish Isles

I the mail genetic marker

is known as a white cranes upon the pastis largely unchanged copy of his own

wife crimes

to his son because a very good way

tracing ancestry through his stomach

are by comparing Y chromosomeinformation

different populations Marcus tried toestablish how closely the populations

are related


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he discovered that there was anunusually high similarity

between DNA from Britain and parts home

within England all the tiles look verysimilar but different the worst times

and seconds the more remarkable featurewas the incredible similarity between

the English towns

genetically and stuff regions in fact wecouldn't statistically tell any

difference between

good this suggests the native Britishwhy

crimes at some point in history beenmixed with that of people from northern

your

complex statistics we used to work outwhen this genetic mix might have

happened

we conclude we would need the massmigration last twoandahalf thousand


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years

the was a hundred percent replacement orif it was less it have to be more

recently

and if we assume that the past migrationwas the anglosaxon mass migration

then we estimate that replacement musthave been between and percent

to share completeness or

this population change really doesconflict with the archaeological

evidence

three million people job done will theydon't show that

now one kansai and think

about the exact work process walls

the said that could be cushion

slaughter in or it could be somethingmuch more


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the nine I'm just economic differencesbetween

different populations and overtimegradual replacement

can't really say how but another team ageneticist

in the same department mom haveconducted a similar said

and come up with a very tough cell

they conclude but the native British whycrimes has not been largely replaced in

some

and East thing

furthermore they stated but it's notpossible to distinguish between the

genetic influences the anglosaxons

and that with the Vikings who definitelybeating

in the eighth and ninth centuries

I just don't think that we should relyon the genetic versions of history


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on their especially when two similarstudies

produce such different solves I'm alsopretty suspicious

of simple explanations in complex times

the dramatic changes that took place inthe fifth and sixth centuries

laid the foundations for the modernidentity this country

on going to ship these changes would notmuscle

mass invasions and in revising thispowerful origin

I will discover who room the Englishreally young

on the south coast Hampshire at theentrance to a natural harbour

is one of the best preserved Romanbuildings in Britain

missus porches to close it's one of a

series of coastal forts built by the

Romans in the third and fourth centuries

then known as Saxon shortfalls


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because it still widely accepted theywere constructed

to keep our marauding anglosaxon bandsfrom the other side of the channel

but in actual fact

they may have been used for a verydifferent purpose in time

sure Paul Scott the southern andeastern perhaps

from Port Chester inside around thecountry the shortfall

been taken as an imposing reminder theanglosaxon threatening

all the way up to bring custer North one

of the most easterly at the sportsbook

cost

still commands for landscape

baller this

or greenfield's over there would havebeen what was termed a great history

combination about motion auction intotidal creeks


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kind of thing probably until th thcentury

Andrew Pierce has been reexamining

falls and has come to the surprisingconclusions but they may have nothing to

do with anglosaxons

think that the traditional view of thesites is that they are

a defense against pirate raiders fromacross the channel from Saxony for frees

you from Jutland

basically from the peoples who are inlater periods good conlon's Britain

the name Saxon shore for

actually comes from a Roman militarylist which is translated in the th

century

by the famous antiquarian William camp

what the term Saxon plans to is unclearwhat kind and said


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pretty much when went as archaeologicalfact that

too many some centuries to come really Ithink also would hit song was

a very evocative idea its it's verydramatic it's a very simple

that the sports %uh put up as a defenseagainst the Saxons

the county's called the count all thesex sure now whether that means

it is the sure being attacked by theSaxons or settled by the Saxons really

we just don't know

andrew has fun but the huge walls

actually better suited to protectinggoods kept inside the forms

rather than attacking enemies fromoutside

well I think the sites are not doingmuch more defending the coastline

if the Saxons came raising went to bemonthly may not even be in


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every year every years so in terms ofwhat the sports do I think

it's much more likely that they have amake economic roller pad to supply role

rather than this kind of defensive

function that subscribe to the normallyso

what you seem to be suggesting and isthat these forts

could have been used actually to helptrade from archer

Britain rather than stop people comingin yes I think rather than

try to block access to the interior assome this practice lethal

in fact these quite the opposite insofaras materials

and get to come here and then beingships out within beyond into the

Empire's a whole

andrew has found no archaeologicalevidence that the sports were built to

defend against


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anglosaxon invasion home

somewhat is the evidence for an invasion

the Yorkshire whirls on the MastersSeries

short done would spread east acrossBritain Hall

and it's here but Anglo Saxon invadersare supposed to have settled

fifteen hundred years ago all

these fields one of the mostextraordinary archaeological

investigations

is being carried out

the new thirty years ago archaeologistDominic POW's

was asked to excavate some fifth centuryburials

but it turned up in a quarry site nearthe village of West has lived

dominic has conducted one of the largestarchaeological information


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world yell scrutinizing every inch alandscaping

for traces the sage park

such a comprehensive survey shouldconfirm the conventional view

the th and th centuries as a time wheninvaders took over

accepted did

this is a tremendous settlement thatmaybe as early as the Bronze Age

Dominic discovered the remains miles offarms and villages

the settlement began life four thousandyears ago

a continued through to the eighthcentury spanning the crucial anglosaxon

invasion period

Dominic coles is discovery but Blatter

said

from the lanai running strikethroughfine as the fairway wood painting

yeah run straight through here for those


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problems the

but the track way down spine the Saturnmy second prize a series

on state or even small villagesfollowing a truck

hugging the very end to the way

wave trice the center for kilometers

we've surveyed in doing so about sevenmy heart like humans

I'm sure it goes all the way to the cutsthis is a new kind of archaeology

dedicated to understanding the long termlife and meaning

of an entire landscape

I how to tame out there walking roomdawn till dusk for three years

and the results are I'm so is staggering

it's a long walk

I have walked past me burden from Land'sEnd to John O'Groats I mean it's just in

the field


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down here this is a

flip skate radiometer which measures mynew variations in magnetic signal under

the song

imagine this field

untouched by human and someone comesalong and digs a ditch a crossing

and that the chosen with theresponsibility of

snabel getting into the date many of itsbuilding again it looks like this you

can see id

am we can no longer walk over and weread the signal

so get zero all around then suddenly togo up

to see we just walk backwards and

forwards across that and build up this

picture as we go

the Great Yarmouth picks up soildisturbance


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which you make hundreds even thousandsof years ago

how much more you got to lose your toomuch health

wherever halfway there

having said hacked who wears the and

printed out

this is what was it was it must be thebiggest

geophysical surveying the country's Ibelieve is now the biggest in the world

good great this massive the

stormy surely tells us a a differentstory about population in the area

that must mean we've got a highpopulation the ideal hardly anybody

living here is completely unsustainable

we end up with the same sort a tentativesettlement as we would have had a

hundred years ago


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on

once per survey saddam dominic and histeam go to work

I'm

four thousand years of history liebeneath the soil

just waiting to be a common which iscoming out much in the world

not quite steeply down weapon

and the main area occupationdroughtlike prehistory

I'll geology this part of the country isunique

Maclaren twin blame some protectionancient remains

which other areas bring modern pop wasdestroyed

dominicanas team we're about to start

digging

and popular culture who gold mine nowthe first time like picked a metro area

there were


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this is best like a Goldust

level committee we can say but we knowits wellpreserved

yeah and gas is very rare in in britainthere are probably

a few square kilometers locality that'sright well preserved in the countryside

Dominic's excavations

uncovered what the ghostly patents forthe geophysics had hinted

the fact remains hugs

track and settlements which spannedthree thousand years

ancient history this is that they'reworking at the moment

run the settlement comes through herethe magic playful

liars and lives in the past on the topof this app simply

there is the line allowed a settlementgoing right the way through the field


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so what combat Assad tell us about thearrival at the anglosaxons

the archaeological remains have beenvacation unusually clear enough

spot the Roman army in the first centuryand the Viking invaders to be eighth

century

both leftback archaeological Mar intoshape

war cemeteries and deliberatelydestroyed houses and religious site but

Dominic could find no such

ever what he did find

was a village and a cemetery full ofpeople could look like anglosaxons

then this asymmetry is located hereunderneath the main road

we've got the symmetry so we set off insearch for the settlement

and and hold an assassin village

acres it


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a shot on the below is now ensuring thesite

play I am i sat village which standardright up

into the heart of the Hells absent heremuch big government present village

the same Dominic's meticulous

surveys will be able to pick up themassive disruption

but an invasion courses on hands wecould find was evidence

peaceful and continue settlement unlessthat some people there

when people there on age people fromthose people oppose

moments the pale next door and things go

absolutely crazy

for make our dog in this is a fall thisis Scott

basins home manage oh yeah at a costjust to the south at

all they settlement services anothersummitry but it's also


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I at a loss for words a bit you have got

a longterm settlement got the symmetryhere you got a complete way of life

at and is pending it's flat dusty

Saturday and it looks like there'snothing here but it goes on for

kilometer after kilometer

I

Dominic discovered but the site had beenoccupied from prehistory

until the middle of the sage nearly $m

troops Bronze Age bombs

Rome sent anglosaxon village

what all Park Service continuouslyoccupied lands kid

that would know gaps occupation no

war said

the no dramatic changes in the layout tothe village


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in short there was no

invasion

what the balls hard was a changingfashion

closed Potter weapons and burialpractices

underwent a dramatic change in thiscentury's after the Roman government

these new fashions

a very similar to styles found on thecontinent

and this change in fashion did not

just happened a quest hasn't for

Dec these burials have been taken as akey piece of evidence

but a new set to people taken over butwhat we're invading

anglosaxons doing in Dominic's peacefullandscape

could it be but the world actually invictims


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we want

Dominic gave some the scans

from his anglosaxon cemetery to Paulbomb done

acid Paul has pioneered a new form abiological research

call stable isotope analysis what wereally interested in actually is the

the teeth and particularly the toothenamel because tooth enamel is phone

in childhood and unlike any other tissuein the body

it's not remodeled during life is giving

you a little window

little microcosm love what was happeningin your diet

what you re T and at the time your childbetween the teeth was formed

pollsters Cup but tooth in phnom haswithin it

material specific to the person sleepcation for


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wannabes proteins contains oxygenisotopes

months or so oxygen is the oxygen thatyou can see this water

because you're eating local foods thissignal will find its way into your bones

in

well

by measuring the oxygen isotopes in aperson's

to them holders able to tell what hymieand in what part of the world

they were bored

this is a technique which offers theopportunity of identifying

firstgeneration immigrants civicbecause you can look at people

you are going to see people who grew upsome weird

whole successfully analyzed thebodies from Dominicks summitry

and a few these were indeed foreign butthe


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other personal surprise the things thatwe expected

he's in continental immigrants has it inand in fact we did see

for individuals on the side who have anddrinking water which you can't really

find in

so with these

Rick slandering warrior type eap

know the interesting thing about thosecores evolve theme

of their very poorly

grades the fact that the only four thingthe house essentially don't have any

dress fittings until

household servants or something likethat but certainly seems to be the lower

status

peopled


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the most like candidates going to be sothe Scandinavian the Wii versions

coaster here will possibly sweetener

it what about the

remainder the population you be thereall your chinaman

what you would think so

the surprises stop there weeding be

find about profits apart supported

like courting West has it in and then wehad another part of the population

associate it with that the western side

in the country

early East Yorkshire seems to be

occupied by large proportion Cumbriansas far as I can tell

you've got a big

immigrant component to the west coastpopulation

but not coming from each committee from


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invaders

came to society which had been severelyweek by the collapse

Roman rule

but Dominic's past excavation had foundno such effort

people are Kaiser appreciate the picturethat wave thought was genuine desire

long

is seriously flawed an hour populationwe can prove includes one or two people

that come from scandinavia

but this isn't an invasion there's

always resistance to change

because people are months people arehappy with an established understanding

they do not want to change it isactually much more exciting to find that

is a well

my

the people at the th century cemetry


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West Hazleton look like new commentsfrom the continent

and yet most from was born in Britain

the first change wasn't resulted invacation

what was coming all the wheel profoundcultural changes in the fifth century

but perhaps the most significant

was blank

there is no done but spoken languagechange from native British

sometimes called helped tipping whichwas a descendant

John surely this if anything has to beproved

of the anglosaxon invasion

modern linguistics are beginning to

question

Katie Taylor has been looking at thetraces native British gramma

in modern Inc is come down to this that


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we've

simply knows the facts that the Celticlanguages

just didn't really affect modern Englishand I think apps PC stop people looking

they just thought well it is to me copyany and any influence told

linguists have discovered him homed inon line

structure which shows a strong influencefrom the Britons

if your account are you trying to learn

Old English just like any secondlanguage

acquisition you can't make mistakes meif you go to France today

you can't make mistakes mistakes whichreally show

am structure from your own language atSan for example you might make mistakes

in syntax you might make mistakes in forCapri

of course accent will be very strange aswell


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and it's thought that perhaps some otherCeltic structure language affected

English in the process of learning

the native Britons were taking thestructure that moon language

and these ancient patents and still doesin the grammatical structure mom

old English was really rather likeGerman structure and

the way you can search the sentence wasbased largely on

endings indicated what a word was doing

concerns

nowadays word order it

allimportant if I say I'm the cat

chase the man it does not mean same asthe other way around

I'll

in German word nd and not world order


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would have told us who was chasing whosupport to the English language

undergo be strange mutation we've moved

it we've shifted I'm to a different kindof

world within the sentence ways that comefrom this it doesn't seem to happen

quite so much

within any the other Germanic languagesrecent research has shown that the

Celtic languages

had a part to play in this there has tobe contact

has be contacted for generations

there's no other way of doing itdivisive English in Deeside

came not from a tidal wave beijing's

but from a prolonged period of compduring which for me to Britain's

chose to adopt a new way of speaking


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why did this happen archaeologists amloosing

has been examining graves from the pierto understand why this dramatic cultural

change

place

so this would be salud to some big red

and West has been yet very similar up byhis head

you've got the medal table must be a haand one shot

away you've got down over his hip

the metal center of the big wooden and

leather shield

just language

the native Britons changed his p so toodid best I love

close weapons the end the Roman period

local jus firms changed

ones that minutes traditionally beenattributed to you


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and it sucks migrations on section andinvasions

you do certainly start get differentburial rites

it

women tend to get buried with a muchgreater variety of dress furnishings

this is the bridge type it seems acrucible

to cross shaped buyers and this page

isn't continental import its idea cameultimately from the constant

is a bush's product the people living in

britain

are perhaps undermining themselves moreto continental

style and constant ninety years so Ithink it's capsule to process that's

going on

rather than population replacement whichis what that traditional


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interventionists migrations involves

the state has peed to take

cultural of as evidence from racialorigin

if I'm wearing American teens doesn'tmake many american

if I'm driving German com that doesn'tmean German

doesn't work

but can be no doc but a trickle ofwarriors and families on the moon

we're coming into Britain from thecountries have northern Europe

missed period but the traditionalpicture the invasion and population

replacement is

unsuspecting

the people in Britain continue bank

adopted new fashions and shifted theirpolitical allegiances because the new

from experience but this was the best


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way to keep up with the rapidly changing

piled it was only in later centuries

but the complex details to disperse weretransformed

input captivating story

history books can be dangerous things

especially when they're brilliantwritten

in hindsight Monkman the venerablebe

finished his ecclesiastical history theEnglish

which still forms the basis Martin

history this but be like all historians

had his own particular axe to grind

according to be the origins of thechurch in England

line century brown where Pope Gregorythe Great

spotted some beautiful fairhairedslaves for sale


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upon being told that they were anglesfrom the pagan island Britain

he famously replied that to him theylook more like

angels I'll

I according to be

Gregory immediately makes arrangementsperson to gusting to sail to britain and

convert these human creatures toChristianity to make Augustine's mission

more significant bit action

what beat portrays Britain as a countrypopulated by he even on believe

he calls these pagans the anglosaxons

and describes the compassion as aglorious achieve

in creating this story beat gives the

church

a fresh start in the newly converted

anglosaxon English are depicted asproper christians


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unconnected to the murky CelticChristianity

open the chief britain's

be trust in this story as of ithappened

so he's tried to present it as acoherent process therefore it's in his

interest to make things

tidy a and more organized pipes and theyreally were

in fact Christianity is big by

late Roman period Augusta arrives in theinto the sixth century

he's already stepping into country knewall about Christianity

and when a gust in the rights byinvitation

he finds an island where there already

I'm christians and bishops and organizedchurch life exists

in part to the island so they're


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Easter they could write classier prosand verse

the Roman missionaries were capable of

so the Roman missionaries found intactchurch

completely selfpossessed that were some

dumbfounded for this but they're justlike to build they pretended that it had

never existed

pretended that it didn't exist

in order to gloss over the messy allregions

English Cristian beat invented a newrace a few

the anglosaxons who came to be known

as the in game

be

has an agenda to present theanglosaxons as a coherent


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body people and the predestined toinherit southern Britain

rather like the children Israel inherit

Holy Land and they inherited from thebritish according to be because the

British are unfit to live here

so the English are chosen people

E

beads influence is all the moreextraordinary

when you realize that he never venturedonto the monastery in Tyneside

where he was brought up

we know

that aid had particular reasons forwriting his history

wanna was really to create a centipedeEnglish

in doing so he gave us an origin

do you think that be did invent England


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he sent me mad

the nation and its people what you haveto realize

is the England doesn't exist beforeperhaps the ninth tenth century

attorney later on that you can actuallycall it a single

political nation she like and beforethis point

you're looking at much smaller territorybased groupings largely

and so beat in writing that that

ecclesiastical history is creating thatsent to the English are starting to

create that sense

in telling the story of the anglosaxoninvasion

bebe laid the groundwork for an EnglishI can't

but I don't believe dispersionrepresents who we are as a nation

my journey into the story a Briton hasuncovered


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a very different picture the peopleinside

so who are we read of

ok

whether we hark back to are all theanglosaxons

we Brits always use history to createnational identity

for a cell the mud the properties

these are identities based on the Holyimagine past

so we end up not knowing who we reallyare I'll

I'll go to the heart of democracy andyou see what I mean

with the Victorians decided to decoratethe Ruby room here in the House of Lords

be changed to use a figure of king of

the Victorians had revived theanglosaxon invasion with

with Vic the invasion


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identified noble English as the sendingfrom pure

Teutonic stop as distinct from theirrational

on disappeared cal

in the paintings king of a nativeBritish warrior from our talking

past had to be made to fit theanglosaxon perchance

the Victorian name the result

was a ludicrous completion of two veryseparate aspects of our national

identity

British identity just wasn't that some

the in the nineteenth century

at the same time that anglosaxontalking to some guy sucks

historians a writing the history of theEnglish

you get if you not cool not Celtichistorians doing the same for the Welsh


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in the Irish and Scottish

and it's actually in direct oppositionto each other they don't happen in a

vacuum that done in

direct consequence each other see

very bring manipulation historicresources

and archaeology

trying to create percent history

the early centuries a Briton willformative years in the making

this countryside dent it is not just

the British who are being exercised

by that the mediaeval past it is

the the germans it is the fringe his

right across Europe if we are nowlooking to find I would

who are we what is our identity wealmost invariably


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end up in the early Middle Ages in theimmediate post Roman period which

removed

a common culture and created live ingroups of smaller groups

smaller units to which we can look andsay

this is where I'm coming from and prepshe would agree

in my view what the passes all about

is identity

are I'm supposed were not braveanglosaxon Superman

more mysterious Celtic warriors like ofthem

be origins

highest one Puyol race or not do not do

justice to

culture we will not a week anddisorganized

society over part by the Romans


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nor did be dissolved into chaos would bemet

them we did not suffer a period

dark age confusion and we never neededto be saved by the tribesmen of

anglosaxon

ledge I'll the real people to britain

did not only survive an influxforeign firms

but actually flourish because reabsorbed

Rome and later by sometime in NorthEuropean culture

without losing a sense tomorrow nightdidn't I

the two sensibility troops all and adapt

this creative play jus which was alwaysbeen at the heart

British identity and this diverse city

it's not just a feature upon distantpast


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it's a trait weakens to be seen in everyaspect of our life by

even of food

problem call former british ForeignSecretary

famously selected chicken tikka Masson

as Britain's National Beach I'm

believe that a national event itself asresult a blending

an enormous number or different inputsover the centuries

different ethnic groups are coming insaid Lt have become not

such absorbed have made theircontribution become part to the

resultant

makes what we now recognize as I don'tnational identity

in I think actually what makes prisongreat what makes a strong

is not purity you to diversity solvesmany different influences


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ship to language ship to history shipperculture in

shift occur

we Britain's striding into the stcentury

with all the compliments about Victorianancestors

but im planning way ahead we must keepan eye on the part of

but if we discard all sense of historywill be like people with no memory

who don't know who they are I'll

so to find the true origins of Britain a

deal

I've had to look beyond theheadlinegrabbing pickles

the Romans king of and the anglosaxonand instead

lifetime to the real heroes at theselands the ordinary Britons

in them millions who invented arediverse and resilient


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culture

one final four this could be Indian orchina tea

and it says on the package was great inKenya yet despite

maybe holes but these obvious foreignorigins

this is still the best name symbol

look to the company the series Britainand Dubai Francis Pryor

is available now priced twenty poundsstudio copy code only T before

click on Channel don't come tonational next Monday at nine we discover

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History of Britain the Anglo Saxon Invasion