ext_20834 ([identity profile] ladyofastolat.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] ladyofastolat 2010-08-27 11:41 am (UTC)

The Origins of the British, by Stephen Oppenheimer, is the only book I've read on the subject. It comes to the conclusions that [livejournal.com profile] lil_shepherd mentions.

I wish all this stuff had been around when I did the Anglo-Saxons at Oxford. I read loads of works by historians arguing madly about issues of continuity vs. radical change at the time of the Anglo-Saxon invasions, but none of this genetic evidence was available back then. (Or, at least, didn't appear in any of the books my tutor told me to read.)

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