Can any1 remember when only british people lived in britain?
Depends how far back you want to go, and who you count as a Briton. Came the Romans in 55BC, but after they left Germanic tribes, Angles, Saxons and Jutes, pushed the Britons west, so to some extent only the “Celtic Fringe” has a real claim to be Britons. But then the “Anglo-Saxons” sort of became British, along with the Vikings who settled in the North-East. (East Anglia is British isn’t it? We are known as “Angle-land”, after all!) The Normans came and took over.. (French acculturated of Viking descent, not strictly French) But then over time they effectively became British too. For a good while then I can think of no major waves of immigration, (as opposed to individuals) but Edward 1 in 1290 issued an edict expelling all Jews from England, so there must have been a considerable community. This was not formally repealed until 1655, by Oliver Cromwell, but by then the next distinguishable group making a home in Britain had already become established: the Huguenot refugees from the wa
I don’t think there will be many people on here from 700 BC. This is when the first “immigrants” emerged consisting of the Celts (who many have simply emerged from the neolithic population). In c.600 AD we then had the invasion of the Romans which was a huge immigration of population and culture. In c.400 AD we had an immigration of Germanic peopls such as the Angles, Saxons and Jutes as well as Franks, and Frisians from the Netherlands. 1104 AD we had the Viking invasion from the Danes and Norwegians which had a huge influence on the appearance of the people (blonde hair, blue eyes esp in the north). The Normans came in 1066. So we’re not actually purely one race anyway so why does it really matter. I doubt there is a single person in Britain who can trace their ancestry back without encountering one of the above groups of people and are purely from the land they live in. BTW My grandfather was British but he was born in Poland and lived there until he was rescued after the War. He wa
