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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
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