The Tribes of Britain
Author(s): David Miles
The story of the peoples of Britain and Ireland, drawing on new genetic discoveries, language, buildings and landscapeThe diverse peoples of Britain and Ireland are revealed not only by physical characteristics but also through structures and settlements, place names and dialects. Using the latest genetic and archaeological research, the author shows how different peoples traded, settled and conquered, establishing the 'tribal' and regional roots still apparent today. Its vast scope considers the impact of prehistoric peoples and Celtic tribes, Romans and Vikings, Saxons and Normans, Jews and Huguenots, as well as the increasing population movements of the last century.
First published 2005; this edition with Introduction 2006.
General Information
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- : Orion Publishing Group, Limited
- : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- : 0.55
- : 01 August 2006
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : David Miles
- : Paperback
- : 0610
- : English
- : 504
- : 15 B/W Photo\Illu(s),8 Map(s)
More About The Product
Wide ranging, accessible approach to our ancestors and their legacy - the national fascination with social roots is shown by over 200 regional genealogical societies in Britain and Ireland Links highly topical and popular themes from history and science: genetic inheritance, the migration of peoples and the shaping of national identity 'A massive, compendious and copiously researched...A good background book. Massively informative and earthily evocative, it does some of the preliminary work necessary to understand, if not cure, our current identity crisis' Sunday Times 'A huge and fascinating subject...There is much to be learned here' Sunday Telegraph
'[Miles] draws admirably on history, demography, sociology, biology, and even climatology in this wide-ranging cornucopia.' THE TIMES (2/9/06) 'Coming at a time of surely historical levels of immigration, his hugely detailed survey... provides a vital background to any discussion of why Britain is the way it is. It will certainly warm the hearts of increasingly beleaguered multiculturists.' SUNDAY TIMES (3/9/06) 'A big, eccentric tract written with a Victorian zeal to educate and improve the reader... [a] magisterial work.' TELEGRAPH (26/8/06)
David Miles is Chief Archaeologist at English Heritage. Previously Director of the Oxford Archaeological Unit, he is a Research Fellow of the Institute of Archaeology, Oxford and a Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford. He is a member of the Society of Antiquaries. Author of many books and articles on archaeology, he was for 10 years a columnist on The Oxford Mail & Times and broadcasts regularly on radio and TV (The Today Programme, Chronicle, Tomorrow's World).
