A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: A One-Volume Abridgement

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Schiffels, Stephan; Haak, Wolfgang; Paajanen, Pirita; Llamas, Bastien; Popescu, Elizabeth; Loe, Louise; Clarke, Rachel; Lyons, Alice; Mortimer, Richard; Sayer, Duncan; Tyler-Smith, Chris; Cooper, Alan; Durbin, Richard (19 January 2016). "Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon genomes from East England reveal British migration history". Nature Communications. 7: 10408. Bibcode: 2016NatCo...710408S. doi: 10.1038/ncomms10408. PMC 4735688. PMID 26783965.

History of the English Speaking Peoples, First Edition A History of the English Speaking Peoples, First Edition

It is useful to remember that books tell you as much about their author as they do about their subject; indeed, that's sometimes the point of reading them. And these four were penned by none other than Winston S. Churchill -- soldier, painter, politician, historian, war leader, and often voted the greatest Briton -- or even Anglo -- of the entire second millennium. "We are all worms", he once said, "but I do believe that I am a glow-worm". Frith, Maxine (8 January 2004). "Ethnic minorities feel strong sense of identity with Britain, report reveals". The Independent. Archived from the original on 6 September 2011. Many recent immigrants to England have assumed a solely British identity, while others have developed dual or mixed identities. [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] Use of the word "English" to describe Britons from ethnic minorities in England is complicated by most non-white people in England identifying as British rather than English. In their 2004 Annual Population Survey, the Office for National Statistics compared the ethnic identities of British people with their perceived national identity. They found that while 58% of white people in England described their nationality as "English", non-white people were more likely to describe themselves as "British". [32] Relationship to Britishness [ edit ]Liberation of Ireland". Iol.ie. Archived from the original on 15 June 2006 . Retrieved 23 June 2006. Main article: Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain The Incipit to Matthew from the Book of Lindisfarne, an Insular masterpiece English people, like most Europeans, largely descend from three distinct lineages: [37] Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, descended from a Cro-Magnon population that arrived in Europe about 45,000 years ago; [38] Neolithic farmers who migrated from Anatolia during the Neolithic Revolution 9,000 years ago; [39] and Yamnaya Steppe pastoralists who expanded into Europe from the Pontic–Caspian steppe in the context of Indo-European migrations 5,000 years ago. [37] This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues - its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of what Englishmen in the hey-day of their empire thought and felt about their country's past." The Daily Telegraph

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Athelstan (c. 895–939): Historic Figures". BBC. Archived from the original on 13 February 2007 . Retrieved 30 October 2006. Table 19 Enumerated population classified by usual residence and sex" (PDF). Webcitation.org. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 September 2009 . Retrieved 21 August 2017. a b "British identity: Waning". The Economist. 25 January 2007. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011 . Retrieved 9 February 2011. See also: Historical immigration to Great Britain and Immigration to the United Kingdom (1922-present day) The culture of England is sometimes difficult to separate clearly from the culture of the United Kingdom, [143] so influential has English culture been on the cultures of the British Isles and, on the other hand, given the extent to which other cultures have influenced life in England.Carr, Raymond (2003). "The invention of Great Britain: A review of The Making of English Identity by Krishnan Kumar". The Spectator. UK. Archived from the original on 11 November 2011. Eventually, the small remaining area in and around Calais (Burgundian area) in France controlled by Britain was no longer an issue, due in part to the Wars of the Roses. The Earls and Lords were too busy killing each other.

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A surprise was how hostile, land grabbing for the purpose of stealing jewels and anything of value, and simply cruel, were the Vikings. I had never read much of their conquests until now. And of course, had to stop and print out maps of the travels and conquests of the Vikings all over Europe.Most' support English parliament". BBC. 16 January 2007. Archived from the original on 28 July 2011 . Retrieved 9 February 2011.

History of the English Speaking Peoples by Winston A History of the English Speaking Peoples by Winston

English belongs to the Indo-European family of languages and is therefore related to most other languages spoken in Europe and western Asia from Iceland to India. The parent tongue, called Proto-Indo-European, was spoken about 5,000 years ago by nomads believed to have roamed the southeast European plains. Germanic, one of the language groups descended from this ancestral speech, is usually divided by scholars into three regional groups: East (Burgundian, Vandal, and Gothic, all extinct), North ( Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish), and West ( German, Dutch [and Flemish], Frisian, and English). Though closely related to English, German remains far more conservative than English in its retention of a fairly elaborate system of inflections. Frisian, spoken by the inhabitants of the Dutch province of Friesland and the islands off the west coast of Schleswig, is the language most nearly related to Modern English. Icelandic, which has changed little over the last thousand years, is the living language most nearly resembling Old English in grammatical structure. Higham, Nicholas J., and Martin J. Ryan. The Anglo-Saxon World. Yale University Press, 2013. pp. 7–19Expert Links: English Family History and Genealogy". Price and Associates: Professional Genealogy and Family History Services. Archived from the original on 10 December 2008. a b Bueltmann, Tanja; Gleeson, David T.; MacRaild, Donald M. (2010). Locating the English Diaspora 1500–2010. Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-1846318191. Archived from the original on 14 August 2021 . Retrieved 27 March 2020– via Google Books. a b Leslie, Stephen; Winney, Bruce; Hellenthal, Garrett; Davison, Dan; Boumertit, Abdelhamid; Day, Tammy; Hutnik, Katarzyna; Royrvik, Ellen C.; Cunliffe, Barry; Lawson, Daniel J.; Falush, Daniel; Freeman, Colin; Pirinen, Matti; Myers, Simon; Robinson, Mark; Donnelly, Peter; Bodmer, Walter (19 March 2015). "The fine scale genetic structure of the British population". Nature. 519 (7543): 309–314. Bibcode: 2015Natur.519..309.. doi: 10.1038/nature14230. PMC 4632200. PMID 25788095.