What would England/Great Britain be like today had the Romans not invaded in 1066?
I think it is a nice thing to think, but the reality wasn’t very pretty for the Celts after the Roman’s left and prior to 1066. Compared to the lands they controlled and lived in during the Roman period, by 1066, they were pushed to the edges – Wales, Cornwall, the western half of Scotland, and assorted islands by the relentless assault by the Germanic/Norse tribes. They took most of the good farming land on the main island – not yet taking the more mountainous western regions. In Ireland, the Celts managed to keep hegemony until the Norman invasion some 200 years after 1066 but in many ways, the Plantagenets completed the Viking conquest of the Island begun centuries earlier. Dublin was a Viking city and the island had suffered nearly constant attacks. At least the Plantagenets just ruled the Celts in Ireland instead of pushing them out and replacing them with their own people like the German/Norse tribes did in the English island. It took many centuries before the ruling island tried
