and describes the Britons sunk untrue

statement

off to the departure Rome true

think only revived by a massive infusion

of anglosaxon blood from the other side

more see on these robust tribesmen

arrived in boats along the eastern

shores

Britain it was a brave new world in

which

dark forests uphold and englanders

trouble ins

there is no archaeological Evans for the

anglosaxon

page the traditional story in the making

a pin

is complete wrong

real story reshape our future and

rewrite of home

on

as an island people

we Brits have been obsessed with the

idea invasion and the story of the

arrival of the anglosaxons

has long been accepted as a part of

artist

I'm going to shop but the myth from the

anglosaxon invasion

is just leadingedge archaeology is

beginning to reexamine the dramatic

changes that took place in this country

in the centuries often the Roman troops

to partner

and a very different story to the one

which we have become accustomed

he managed

just before World War true

archaeologists in soccer

uncovered one of the greatest

discoveries apartheid the anglosaxon

burial moms

Sutton Hoo good

having peak explains missus pretty

decided to investigate the burial mounds

on her property

she rang up its him and ask for advice

on freelance archaeologist

it seems like another world where land

in a complete game plan archaeologists

to

open that burial mounds but that's what

happened well

in my one over there he discovered an

intact ship

and burial chamber when news

just got out archaeologist Cambridge

University in the fridge him came in to

help

and the most fabulous extraordinary

archaeological treasure was discovered

there

my the excavations revealed

the burial chamber a person in a wooden

shape he was accompanied by a well for

fabulous on checks this was the grave

problem

very rich man helmets incredibly rare

special headgear seems to be appropriate

for a king

as it still is today he's got

other things like the strange wit's end

this made interceptor

polish in the middle layer hand canal is

a little cup which puts it on on easing

holder set to like a modern king

some people feel very strong Swedish

insurance

some people see a very strong classical

Byzantine influence

other people say that he's got a bit of

everything is trying out a lot of

different

different methods of making a seat

heater an important ruling if the

spangles

well I'm seventh century parts a Briton

to become a series of politically

powerful kingdoms

later to be known as being do you

suppose

a boatload of anglosaxon royal family

came sailing up a deepening

for will P this is the place for me got

off the boat and set up by Kingdom here

the origin myths that we have recorded

by people like be

do seem to indicate that in the fifth

century

boatloads if royalty did throw up think

world

I'm sure we'll create my kingdom here

that's at but we just don't have any

archaeological evidence to back it up

talk what seems much more likely

is that time that by some process if

internal social development Kings arose

at some point in the late th century

and then decided to kind creates this

its origin myth to explain where they

come from

probably they just murdered and fought

their way to the top but they wanted to

say they'd always been royal

in fact that descended from a call

tonight well

some who is the most elaborate to the

number I rich

anglosaxon burials over the south and

east to britain archaeologists the

divided about where these powerful new

leaders

came from ok

Hakka favors the idea they were

invaded

until Sutton was found

capital was the richest in the section

grave in England

your he's big and the sex and barriers

of the th century

were very often located on the types of

bridges taking

up the dominant position in the

landscape demonstrates

who you are your family hungry cock

believes an invasion is the best way to

explaining 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 people

came here

in large numbers from abroad Francesa

believes you can earn

demonstrate that this is still given the

evidence

the best possible explanation

Joe argument is we do not meet in

migrations to explain culture change

this is essentially the underlying

argument yeah I agree with that and

actually at the moment

you look to russia postsoviet Russia

you see a huge culture change

but it has not brought in by immigrant

westerners

it is market there of course you can say

there's no proof that they came here and

I accept that we cannot trace them

across the North Sea

but it is still the best explanation I

think I'd love to agree with you

only I comp see any outsiders were to

come here without there being one

helluva fight

and there is no evidence for a struggle

if people move on to my land

I'm not happy about that see if you're

there you are not

right so you think people you think that

people would actually moved art

my programs for that after the collapse

of a civilization

you do have population decline if the is

population decline

there was also a space more space in the

landscape than that was

in the Roman system I don't believe

you that there was a whole in British

society if anything

you know the taxes will remove I would

have thought people said both picky

it's Christmas I don't have to pay taxes

I'm much better off

I'm so when the room is that people

actually 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 invasion

explanation just

not whenever archaeologist can't explain

a period of social change or innovation

the beach for the catchall explanation

new people

invasion

but that isn't actually any evidence to

support this store we just calm

prove them

science how ima is trying at University

College London

professor genetics Mark Thomas and his

keep

have conducted a survey the DNA in the

British Isles

I the mail genetic marker

is known as a white cranes upon the past

is 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 chromosome

information

different populations Marcus tried to

establish how closely the populations

are related

he discovered that there was an

unusually high similarity

between DNA from Britain and parts home

within England all the tiles look very

similar but different the worst times

and seconds the more remarkable feature

was the incredible similarity between

the English towns

genetically and stuff regions in fact we

couldn't statistically tell any

difference between

good this suggests the native British

why

crimes at some point in history been

mixed with that of people from northern

your

complex statistics we used to work out

when this genetic mix might have

happened

we conclude we would need the mass

migration last twoandahalf thousand

years

the was a hundred percent replacement or

if it was less it have to be more

recently

and if we assume that the past migration

was the anglosaxon mass migration

then we estimate that replacement must

have been between and percent

to share completeness or

this population change really does

conflict with the archaeological

evidence

three million people job done will they

don'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 something

much more

the nine I'm just economic differences

between

different populations and overtime

gradual replacement

can't really say how but another team a

geneticist

in the same department mom have

conducted a similar said

and come up with a very tough cell

they conclude but the native British why

crimes has not been largely replaced in

some

and East thing

furthermore they stated but it's not

possible to distinguish between the

genetic influences the anglosaxons

and that with the Vikings who definitely

beating

in the eighth and ninth centuries

I just don't think that we should rely

on the genetic versions of history

on their especially when two similar

studies

produce such different solves I'm also

pretty suspicious

of simple explanations in complex times

the dramatic changes that took place in

the fifth and sixth centuries

laid the foundations for the modern

identity this country

on going to ship these changes would not

muscle

mass invasions and in revising this

powerful origin

I will discover who room the English

really young

on the south coast Hampshire at the

entrance to a natural harbour

is one of the best preserved Roman

buildings 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

because it still widely accepted they

were constructed

to keep our marauding anglosaxon bands

from the other side of the channel

but in actual fact

they may have been used for a very

different purpose in time

sure Paul Scott the southern and

eastern perhaps

from Port Chester inside around the

country the shortfall

been taken as an imposing reminder the

anglosaxon 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 have

been what was termed a great history

combination about motion auction into

tidal creeks

kind of thing probably until th th

century

Andrew Pierce has been reexamining

falls and has come to the surprising

conclusions but they may have nothing to

do with anglosaxons

think that the traditional view of the

sites is that they are

a defense against pirate raiders from

across the channel from Saxony for frees

you from Jutland

basically from the peoples who are in

later periods good conlon's Britain

the name Saxon shore for

actually comes from a Roman military

list which is translated in the th

century

by the famous antiquarian William camp

what the term Saxon plans to is unclear

what kind and said

pretty much when went as archaeological

fact that

too many some centuries to come really I

think also would hit song was

a very evocative idea its it's very

dramatic it's a very simple

that the sports %uh put up as a defense

against the Saxons

the county's called the count all the

sex sure now whether that means

it is the sure being attacked by the

Saxons or settled by the Saxons really

we just don't know

andrew has fun but the huge walls

actually better suited to protecting

goods kept inside the forms

rather than attacking enemies from

outside

well I think the sites are not doing

much more defending the coastline

if the Saxons came raising went to be

monthly may not even be in

every year every years so in terms of

what the sports do I think

it's much more likely that they have a

make economic roller pad to supply role

rather than this kind of defensive

function that subscribe to the normally

so

what you seem to be suggesting and is

that these forts

could have been used actually to help

trade from archer

Britain rather than stop people coming

in yes I think rather than

try to block access to the interior as

some this practice lethal

in fact these quite the opposite insofar

as materials

and get to come here and then being

ships out within beyond into the

Empire's a whole

andrew has found no archaeological

evidence that the sports were built to

defend against

anglosaxon invasion home

somewhat is the evidence for an invasion

the Yorkshire whirls on the Masters

Series

short done would spread east across

Britain Hall

and it's here but Anglo Saxon invaders

are supposed to have settled

fifteen hundred years ago all

these fields one of the most

extraordinary archaeological

investigations

is being carried out

the new thirty years ago archaeologist

Dominic POW's

was asked to excavate some fifth century

burials

but it turned up in a quarry site near

the village of West has lived

dominic has conducted one of the largest

archaeological information

world yell scrutinizing every inch a

landscaping

for traces the sage park

such a comprehensive survey should

confirm the conventional view

the th and th centuries as a time when

invaders took over

accepted did

this is a tremendous settlement that

maybe as early as the Bronze Age

Dominic discovered the remains miles of

farms and villages

the settlement began life four thousand

years ago

a continued through to the eighth

century spanning the crucial anglosaxon

invasion period

Dominic coles is discovery but Blatter

said

from the lanai running strikethrough

fine as the fairway wood painting

yeah run straight through here for those

problems the

but the track way down spine the Saturn

my second prize a series

on state or even small villages

following a truck

hugging the very end to the way

wave trice the center for kilometers

we've surveyed in doing so about seven

my heart like humans

I'm sure it goes all the way to the cuts

this is a new kind of archaeology

dedicated to understanding the long term

life and meaning

of an entire landscape

I how to tame out there walking room

dawn 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's

End to John O'Groats I mean it's just in

the field

down here this is a

flip skate radiometer which measures my

new variations in magnetic signal under

the song

imagine this field

untouched by human and someone comes

along and digs a ditch a crossing

and that the chosen with the

responsibility of

snabel getting into the date many of its

building again it looks like this you

can see id

am we can no longer walk over and we

read the signal

so get zero all around then suddenly to

go up

to see we just walk backwards and

forwards across that and build up this

picture as we go

the Great Yarmouth picks up soil

disturbance

which you make hundreds even thousands

of years ago

how much more you got to lose your too

much health

wherever halfway there

having said hacked who wears the and

printed out

this is what was it was it must be the

biggest

geophysical surveying the country's I

believe is now the biggest in the world

good great this massive the

stormy surely tells us a a different

story about population in the area

that must mean we've got a high

population the ideal hardly anybody

living here is completely unsustainable

we end up with the same sort a tentative

settlement as we would have had a

hundred years ago

on

once per survey saddam dominic and his

team go to work

I'm

four thousand years of history lie

beneath the soil

just waiting to be a common which is

coming out much in the world

not quite steeply down weapon

and the main area occupation

droughtlike prehistory

I'll geology this part of the country is

unique

Maclaren twin blame some protection

ancient remains

which other areas bring modern pop was

destroyed

dominicanas team we're about to start

digging

and popular culture who gold mine now

the first time like picked a metro area

there were

this is best like a Goldust

level committee we can say but we know

its wellpreserved

yeah and gas is very rare in in britain

there are probably

a few square kilometers locality that's

right well preserved in the countryside

Dominic's excavations

uncovered what the ghostly patents for

the geophysics had hinted

the fact remains hugs

track and settlements which spanned

three thousand years

ancient history this is that they're

working at the moment

run the settlement comes through here

the magic playful

liars and lives in the past on the top

of this app simply

there is the line allowed a settlement

going right the way through the field

so what combat Assad tell us about the

arrival at the anglosaxons

the archaeological remains have been

vacation unusually clear enough

spot the Roman army in the first century

and the Viking invaders to be eighth

century

both leftback archaeological Mar into

shape

war cemeteries and deliberately

destroyed houses and religious site but

Dominic could find no such

ever what he did find

was a village and a cemetery full of

people could look like anglosaxons

then this asymmetry is located here

underneath the main road

we've got the symmetry so we set off in

search for the settlement

and and hold an assassin village

acres it

a shot on the below is now ensuring the

site

play I am i sat village which standard

right up

into the heart of the Hells absent here

much big government present village

the same Dominic's meticulous

surveys will be able to pick up the

massive disruption

but an invasion courses on hands we

could find was evidence

peaceful and continue settlement unless

that some people there

when people there on age people from

those people oppose

moments the pale next door and things go

absolutely crazy

for make our dog in this is a fall this

is Scott

basins home manage oh yeah at a cost

just to the south at

all they settlement services another

summitry but it's also

I at a loss for words a bit you have got

a longterm settlement got the symmetry

here you got a complete way of life

at and is pending it's flat dusty

Saturday and it looks like there's

nothing here but it goes on for

kilometer after kilometer

Dominic discovered but the site had been

occupied from prehistory

until the middle of the sage nearly $m

troops Bronze Age bombs

Rome sent anglosaxon village

what all Park Service continuously

occupied lands kid

that would know gaps occupation no

war said

the no dramatic changes in the layout to

the village

in short there was no

invasion

what the balls hard was a changing

fashion

closed Potter weapons and burial

practices

underwent a dramatic change in this

century's after the Roman government

these new fashions

a very similar to styles found on the

continent

and this change in fashion did not

just happened a quest hasn't for

Dec these burials have been taken as a

key piece of evidence

but a new set to people taken over but

what we're invading

anglosaxons doing in Dominic's peaceful

landscape

could it be but the world actually in

victims

we want

Dominic gave some the scans

from his anglosaxon cemetery to Paul

bomb done

acid Paul has pioneered a new form a

biological research

call stable isotope analysis what we

really interested in actually is the

the teeth and particularly the tooth

enamel because tooth enamel is phone

in childhood and unlike any other tissue

in the body

it's not remodeled during life is giving

you a little window

little microcosm love what was happening

in your diet

what you re T and at the time your child

between the teeth was formed

pollsters Cup but tooth in phnom has

within it

material specific to the person sleep

cation for

wannabes proteins contains oxygen

isotopes

months or so oxygen is the oxygen that

you can see this water

because you're eating local foods this

signal will find its way into your bones

in

well

by measuring the oxygen isotopes in a

person's

to them holders able to tell what hymie

and in what part of the world

they were bored

this is a technique which offers the

opportunity of identifying

firstgeneration immigrants civic

because you can look at people

you are going to see people who grew up

some weird

whole successfully analyzed the

bodies from Dominicks summitry

and a few these were indeed foreign but

the

other personal surprise the things that

we expected

he's in continental immigrants has it in

and in fact we did see

for individuals on the side who have and

drinking water which you can't really

find in

so with these

Rick slandering warrior type eap

know the interesting thing about those

cores evolve theme

of their very poorly

grades the fact that the only four thing

the house essentially don't have any

dress fittings until

household servants or something like

that but certainly seems to be the lower

status

peopled

the most like candidates going to be so

the Scandinavian the Wii versions

coaster here will possibly sweetener

it what about the

remainder the population you be there

all 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 we

had 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 Cumbrians

as far as I can tell

you've got a big

immigrant component to the west coast

population

but not coming from each committee from

the west side

so the phone bodies in the summitry

weren't continental warriors

but visitors or economic my card

the results did not surprise domini

comported

as a small number of newcomers yeah

there are a small number of continental

Saxons jus prisons insightful in

different parts of the country

majority the population exactly the same

it's a continuously

involving and cared for plans we say

Roman sites with Anglo Saxon components

Missy Roman activity underneath they are

nice ass and settlement there is no gap

between the two if there were

then we would have huge watcher nice red

ochre red Sun setting between the two

and it doesn't happen

historians tell us but the Anglo Saxon

invaders

came to society which had been severely

week by the collapse

Roman rule

but Dominic's past excavation had found

no such effort

people are Kaiser appreciate the picture

that wave thought was genuine desire

long

is seriously flawed an hour population

we 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 are

happy with an established understanding

they do not want to change it is

actually much more exciting to find that

is a well

my

the people at the th century cemetry

West Hazleton look like new comments

from the continent

and yet most from was born in Britain

the first change wasn't resulted in

vacation

what was coming all the wheel profound

cultural changes in the fifth century

but perhaps the most significant

was blank

there is no done but spoken language

change from native British

sometimes called helped tipping which

was a descendant

John surely this if anything has to be

proved

of the anglosaxon invasion

modern linguistics are beginning to

question

Katie Taylor has been looking at the

traces native British gramma

in modern Inc is come down to this that

we've

simply knows the facts that the Celtic

languages

just didn't really affect modern English

and I think apps PC stop people looking

they just thought well it is to me copy

any and any influence told

linguists have discovered him homed in

on line

structure which shows a strong influence

from the Britons

if your account are you trying to learn

Old English just like any second

language

acquisition you can't make mistakes me

if you go to France today

you can't make mistakes mistakes which

really show

am structure from your own language at

San for example you might make mistakes

in syntax you might make mistakes in for

Capri

of course accent will be very strange as

well

and it's thought that perhaps some other

Celtic structure language affected

English in the process of learning

the native Britons were taking the

structure that moon language

and these ancient patents and still does

in the grammatical structure mom

old English was really rather like

German structure and

the way you can search the sentence was

based 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 as

the other way around

I'll

in German word nd and not world order

would have told us who was chasing who

support to the English language

undergo be strange mutation we've moved

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

of

world within the sentence ways that come

from this it doesn't seem to happen

quite so much

within any the other Germanic languages

recent research has shown that the

Celtic languages

had a part to play in this there has to

be contact

has be contacted for generations

there's no other way of doing it

divisive English in Deeside

came not from a tidal wave beijing's

but from a prolonged period of comp

during which for me to Britain's

chose to adopt a new way of speaking

why did this happen archaeologists am

loosing

has been examining graves from the pier

to understand why this dramatic cultural

change

place

so this would be salud to some big red

and West has been yet very similar up by

his head

you've got the medal table must be a ha

and 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 too

did best I love

close weapons the end the Roman period

local jus firms changed

ones that minutes traditionally been

attributed to you

and it sucks migrations on section and

invasions

you do certainly start get different

burial rites

it

women tend to get buried with a much

greater variety of dress furnishings

this is the bridge type it seems a

crucible

to cross shaped buyers and this page

isn't continental import its idea came

ultimately from the constant

is a bush's product the people living in

britain

are perhaps undermining themselves more

to continental

style and constant ninety years so I

think it's capsule to process that's

going on

rather than population replacement which

is what that traditional

interventionists migrations involves

the state has peed to take

cultural of as evidence from racial

origin

if I'm wearing American teens doesn't

make many american

if I'm driving German com that doesn't

mean German

doesn't work

but can be no doc but a trickle of

warriors and families on the moon

we're coming into Britain from the

countries have northern Europe

missed period but the traditional

picture the invasion and population

replacement is

unsuspecting

the people in Britain continue bank

adopted new fashions and shifted their

political allegiances because the new

from experience but this was the best

way to keep up with the rapidly changing

piled it was only in later centuries

but the complex details to disperse were

transformed

input captivating story

history books can be dangerous things

especially when they're brilliant

written

in hindsight Monkman the venerable

be

finished his ecclesiastical history the

English

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 the

church in England

line century brown where Pope Gregory

the Great

spotted some beautiful fairhaired

slaves for sale

upon being told that they were angles

from the pagan island Britain

he famously replied that to him they

look more like

angels I'll

I according to be

Gregory immediately makes arrangements

person to gusting to sail to britain and

convert these human creatures to

Christianity to make Augustine's mission

more significant bit action

what beat portrays Britain as a country

populated by he even on believe

he calls these pagans the anglosaxons

and describes the compassion as a

glorious achieve

in creating this story beat gives the

church

a fresh start in the newly converted

anglosaxon English are depicted as

proper christians

unconnected to the murky Celtic

Christianity

open the chief britain's

be trust in this story as of it

happened

so he's tried to present it as a

coherent process therefore it's in his

interest to make things

tidy a and more organized pipes and they

really were

in fact Christianity is big by

late Roman period Augusta arrives in the

into the sixth century

he's already stepping into country knew

all about Christianity

and when a gust in the rights by

invitation

he finds an island where there already

I'm christians and bishops and organized

church life exists

in part to the island so they're

different streams of Christianity

the conventional wisdom would have it

that the anglosaxons ball with them

paganism from abroad and that

Christianity was introduced

to England until when

simple just arrived can to bring what do

you say to that I don't believe a word

of it

Mike

the British church survived intact and

it was flourishing

the missionaries thought they were

coming

to barbarian retain it and when they got

here

here was a church with its own

traditions intact from antiquity

man who knew how to to

operate ten different computational

cycles for the reckoning

Easter they could write classier pros

and verse

the Roman missionaries were capable of

so the Roman missionaries found intact

church

completely selfpossessed that were some

dumbfounded for this but they're just

like to build they pretended that it had

never existed

pretended that it didn't exist

in order to gloss over the messy all

regions

English Cristian beat invented a new

race a few

the anglosaxons who came to be known

as the in game

be

has an agenda to present the

anglosaxons as a coherent

body people and the predestined to

inherit southern Britain

rather like the children Israel inherit

Holy Land and they inherited from the

british according to be because the

British are unfit to live here

so the English are chosen people

beads influence is all the more

extraordinary

when you realize that he never ventured

onto the monastery in Tyneside

where he was brought up

we know

that aid had particular reasons for

writing his history

wanna was really to create a centipede

English

in doing so he gave us an origin

do you think that be did invent England

he sent me mad

the nation and its people what you have

to realize

is the England doesn't exist before

perhaps the ninth tenth century

attorney later on that you can actually

call it a single

political nation she like and before

this point

you're looking at much smaller territory

based groupings largely

and so beat in writing that that

ecclesiastical history is creating that

sent to the English are starting to

create that sense

in telling the story of the anglosaxon

invasion

bebe laid the groundwork for an English

I can't

but I don't believe dispersion

represents who we are as a nation

my journey into the story a Briton has

uncovered

a very different picture the people

inside

so who are we read of

ok

whether we hark back to are all the

anglosaxons

we Brits always use history to create

national identity

for a cell the mud the properties

these are identities based on the Holy

imagine past

so we end up not knowing who we really

are I'll

I'll go to the heart of democracy and

you see what I mean

with the Victorians decided to decorate

the Ruby room here in the House of Lords

be changed to use a figure of king of

the Victorians had revived the

anglosaxon invasion with

with Vic the invasion

identified noble English as the sending

from pure

Teutonic stop as distinct from the

irrational

on disappeared cal

in the paintings king of a native

British warrior from our talking

past had to be made to fit the

anglosaxon perchance

the Victorian name the result

was a ludicrous completion of two very

separate aspects of our national

identity

British identity just wasn't that some

the in the nineteenth century

at the same time that anglosaxon

talking to some guy sucks

historians a writing the history of the

English

you get if you not cool not Celtic

historians doing the same for the Welsh

in the Irish and Scottish

and it's actually in direct opposition

to each other they don't happen in a

vacuum that done in

direct consequence each other see

very bring manipulation historic

resources

and archaeology

trying to create percent history

the early centuries a Briton will

formative 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 now

looking to find I would

who are we what is our identity we

almost invariably

end up in the early Middle Ages in the

immediate post Roman period which

removed

a common culture and created live in

groups of smaller groups

smaller units to which we can look and

say

this is where I'm coming from and prep

she would agree

in my view what the passes all about

is identity

are I'm supposed were not brave

anglosaxon Superman

more mysterious Celtic warriors like of

them

be origins

highest one Puyol race or not do not do

justice to

culture we will not a week and

disorganized

society over part by the Romans

nor did be dissolved into chaos would be

met

them we did not suffer a period

dark age confusion and we never needed

to be saved by the tribesmen of

anglosaxon

ledge I'll the real people to britain

did not only survive an influx

foreign firms

but actually flourish because reabsorbed

Rome and later by sometime in North

European culture

without losing a sense tomorrow night

didn't I

the two sensibility troops all and adapt

this creative play jus which was always

been at the heart

British identity and this diverse city

it's not just a feature upon distant

past

it's a trait weakens to be seen in every

aspect of our life by

even of food

problem call former british Foreign

Secretary

famously selected chicken tikka Masson

as Britain's National Beach I'm

believe that a national event itself as

result a blending

an enormous number or different inputs

over the centuries

different ethnic groups are coming in

said Lt have become not

such absorbed have made their

contribution become part to the

resultant

makes what we now recognize as I don't

national identity

in I think actually what makes prison

great what makes a strong

is not purity you to diversity solves

many different influences

ship to language ship to history shipper

culture in

shift occur

we Britain's striding into the st

century

with all the compliments about Victorian

ancestors

but im planning way ahead we must keep

an eye on the part of

but if we discard all sense of history

will 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 the

headlinegrabbing pickles

the Romans king of and the anglosaxon

and instead

lifetime to the real heroes at these

lands the ordinary Britons

in them millions who invented are

diverse and resilient

culture

one final four this could be Indian or

china tea

and it says on the package was great in

Kenya yet despite

maybe holes but these obvious foreign

origins

this is still the best name symbol

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