Mass migration’ from France to UK occurred 3,000 years ago

Patel of course -oops!

I have not come across this before Maw and it’s very interesting.
I read of the 250,000 Belgians who migrated here during WW1.
UK government (no Priti Patel in those days either) offered them “the hospitality of the British nation”.
At the end of the war most of them returned home.

Sacre bleu! My Ancestry DNA test didn’t show any French heritage.

Germanshepherdsmum

Sacre bleu! My Ancestry DNA test didn’t show any French heritage.

It explains why mine did!

Apparently, the change in DNA meant that people were able to tolerate lactose. The speed at which the change happened probably meant that being able to tolerate milk became a matter of life or death.

www.nhm.ac.uk/press-office/press-releases/ancient-dna-bronze-age-britain.html

Formidable! I always wanting to be French. Marrying one was a bit cheating!

Some of the earliest genetic outliers have been found in Kent, suggesting that the south-east may have been a focus for movement into Britain. This resonates with previously published isotope evidence from archaeological sites like Cliffs End Farm on the Isle of Thanet peninsula, where some individuals were shown to have spent their childhoods in continental Europe.

I get an irresistible image of a Bronze Age Farage patrolling the Kent beaches ready to call up his followers to repel the forriners... ?

To say nothing of the Normans.....

Or the Celts.

And later still the Huguenots!

Did these Bronze Age people paddle over in little circles?
Very brave!

Oh not circles!
Autocorrect prowls the threads again

Coracles

Mamie

To say nothing of the Normans.....

The Normans are never quite what they are portrayed to be - just another set of Vikings, and cousins to Harold who had settled in England. Yes, double immigrants like Patel's family who settled in Uganda, then came here.

I am always amazed when right wingers claim proudly 'we are pure Anglo-Saxons' doh ;). Germans and Dutch then!?!

Isn't it believed that the Black country dialect is the most Saxon as they were the furthest away from the sea?

It is really interesting re the milk

Do I even mean Saxon I am full of cold, I don't think I do

Juliet27

Germanshepherdsmum

Sacre bleu! My Ancestry DNA test didn’t show any French heritage.

It explains why mine did!

And mine!

I am always amazed when right wingers claim proudly 'we are pure Anglo-Saxons' doh ;). Germans and Dutch then!?!

Not to mention the Romans!

MASS migration over the Channel from Europe is nothing new as immigrants replaced half the ancestry of England and Wales during the Late Bronze Age

Happened in 1066 and thereabouts too. The Normans.

I've often thought that it would be a good idea for everyone to get their DNA tested, if for no other reason than it would prove that there are very few pure Anglo Saxons (whatever that is) and that we are a very mixed bunch.

I know I am a mix because two generations ago both sides of my family were nomadic but it would be interesting to see how

JaneJudge

I know I am a mix because two generations ago both sides of my family were nomadic but it would be interesting to see how

My DNA showed Western Europe, Scandinavia (those pesky Vikings!) Ireland and Scotland as well as East Anglia.

My name is Jewish and when I was signing legal documents in France the lawyer said, you have a very Anglo Saxon name! I might try a DNA one day, if they are any good?

My OH had his DNA test done a couple of years ago. He is 37% Scandinavian, 35 % British (whatever that is) 17% Celt, then Iberian and lastly Middle Eastern.

DNA is very accurate but them working out "ethnicity" it is only as good as the company's database.
As regards the lactose tolerance, for there to be such a huge percentage of people suddenly (in palaeontological terms) able to digest lactose definitely suggests a major wiping out of the indigenous population, perhaps through genocide, sickness or famine. Fascinating.