Stephen Oppenheimer's extraordinary scientific detective story combining genetics linguistics archaeology & historical record shatters the myths we have come to live by. It demonstrates that the Anglo-Saxon invasions contributed just a tiny fraction (5%) to the English gene pool. Two thirds of the English people reveal an unbroken line of genetic descent from south-western Europeans arriving long before the first farmers. The bulk of the remaining third arrived between 7 000 & 3 000 years ago as part of long-term north-west European trade & immigration especially from Scandinavia
- & may have brought with them the earliest forms of English language. As for the Celts
- the Irish Scots & Welsh
- history has traditionally placed their origins in Iron Age Central Europe. Oppenheimer's genetic synthesis shows them to have arrived via the Atlantic coastal route from Ice Age refuges including the Basque country; with the modern languages we call Celtic arriving later. There is indeed a deep divide between the English & the rest of the British. But as this book reveals the division is many thousands of years older than previously thought.


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This is a book of exceptional quality
- The work of a historian at the peak of his powers a magisterial study a profound analysis
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An engaging range of period texts & theme books for AS & A Level history. This text analyses the origins of the First & Second World Wars in one single volume drawing on a wide range of material including original sources. In concise chapters Frank Mc Donough surveys the key issues surrounding the causes of the First & Second World Wars offers a critical survey of the conflict between historians & provides a lively selection of primary documents on major issues. The result is a unique perspective on the origins of the two most devastating military conflicts in world history. ...

The Origins of the First World War" is a concise introduction to one of the major historical controversies. This pamphlet: surveys the roots of the conflict; assesses the legacy of Bismarck's diplomacy; outlines the assassination crisis; focuses on influences affecting individual countries; & examines the historical debate. This edition

Includes:: a new introduction a chronology of the key events & an update on the historical debate explaining the directions in which the historiography is heading."

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A.J.P. Taylors bestselling The Origins of the Second World War" overturns popular myths about the outbreak of war. One of the most popular & controversial historians of the twentieth century who made his subject accessible to millions A.J.P. Taylor caused a storm of outrage with this scandalous bestseller. Debunking what were accepted truths about the Second World War he argued provocatively that Hitler did not set out to cause the war as part of an evil master plan but blundered into it partly by accident aided by the shortcomings of others. Fiercely attacked for vindicating Hitler A.J.P. Taylors stringent re-examination of the events preceding the Nazi invasion of Poland on 1st September 1939 opened up new debate & is now recognized as a brilliant & classic piece of scholarly research. " Taylors most perfect work of art a miracle of proportion language & insight". (Robert Skidelsky). "A dazzling exercise in revisionism which summed up Taylors paradoxical provocative & inventive approach to history". (" The Times"). " Taylor was a lifelong dissenter...at his best
- as in " The Origins of the Second World War"...he shifted the ground of major debates". (Ben Pimlott " Financial Times"). " No historian of the past century has been more accessible". (Niall Ferguson " Sunday Telegraph"). " An almost faultless masterpiece". (" Observer"). " Highly original & penetrating... No one who has digested this enthralling work will ever be able to look at the period again in quite the same way. (" Sunday Telegraph"). A.J.P. Taylor (1906-90) was one of the most controversial historians of the twentieth century. He served as a lecturer at the Universities of Manchester Oxford & London."
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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Surveys most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Surveys most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

On a remote island in Orkney a curiously-matched couple arrive on their honeymoon. He is an eminent literature professor; she was his pale enigmatic star pupil. Alone beneath the shifting skies of this untethered landscape the professor realises how little he knows about his new bride & yet as the days go by & his mind turns obsessively upon the creature who has so beguiled him she seems to slip ever further from his yearning grasp. Where does she come from? Why did she ask him to bring her north? What is it that constantly draws her to the sea? ...