The Highly-Inclusive Ancient Brits And Anglo Saxons Of England... And the Highly Exclusive 'Scots'...
'One Scotland' - but you have to be a Scot - not British, or English, or Bulgarian or... I remember at school in the 1970s being told by my history teacher that the Anglo Saxons invaded what is now England, chased out the Ancient Brits, and took it for themselves. All the Ancient Brits (a retrospective naming - they didn't call themselves that - they were not a unified nation) ran off to Scotland and Wales. 'But how were they driven out?' I frowned. 'There was no technology to practise warfare on that scale - or genocide. The Anglo Saxons' boats would have been pretty small. They were not arriving here in their thousands, wave upon wave, all at the same time.' My history teacher sighed. 'Well, that's what the historians say...' he said. And that was it. Of course, I wasn't satisfied. Were historians all asses? I wondered. As it happened, some historians shared my logic, even back then... Flip forward to the 21st Century, and