Author: David Miles Year: 2005 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History
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ISBNs: 9780753817995 0753817993 |
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Who are the the English, the Irish, the Scots and the Welsh? - a ragbag of migrants, reflecting thousands of years of continuity and change. Now scientific techniques can explore this complex genetic jigsaw: ancient Britons and Saxons, Celts and Romans, Vikings and Normans, and the more recent migrations which have created these multicultural islands.
Drawing on the most recent discoveries, this book both challenges traditional viewsw of history and provides new insight into who we are today.
Massively informative and earthily evocative, it does some of the preliminary worl necessary to understand, if not cure, our current identity crisis. - Sunday Times
A huge and fascinating subject... There is much to be learned here - Sunday Telegraph
Miles's copiously fascinating account... is not only highly enjoyable and instructive, but very timely - Independent on Sunday
Cover Illustration: Tom Gould
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