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The first inhabitants were the Britons, who came from Armenia, and first peopled Britain southward" ("Armenia" is a mistaken transcription of Armorica, an area in northwestern Gaul including modern Brittany rather than the geographically distant and ethnolinguistically non Celtic region in the Caucasus).
The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language, a West Germanic language, and share a common ancestry, history, and culture. [8] The English identity began with the Anglo-Saxons , when they were known as the Angelcynn , meaning race or tribe of the Angles .
Of six 'Caucasian' groups Deniker accommodated four into secondary ethnic groups, all of which he considered intermediate to the Nordic: Northwestern, Sub-Nordic, Vistula and Sub-Adriatic, respectively. [15] [16] Henry Keane's Man, Past and Present (1899) shows a Dane as an example of the Nordic type.
The genetics of some visibly white (European) people in England suggests that they are "descended from north African, Middle Eastern and Roman clans". [ citation needed ] Geneticists have shown that former American president Thomas Jefferson , who might have been of Welsh descent, along with two other British men out of 85 British men with the ...
According to some scholars, a national identity of the English as the people or ethnic group dominant in England can be traced to the Anglo-Saxon period.. For Lindy Brady and Marc Morris, Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People and the construction of Offa's Dyke exemplifies the establishment of such an identity as early as AD 731, becoming a national identity with the unification ...
The UK has a history of small-scale non-European immigration, with Liverpool having the oldest Black British community dating back to at least the 1730s, during the period of the African slave trade. [8] The oldest Chinese community in Europe, dates back to the arrival of Chinese seamen in the 19th century. [9]
Northwestern Europe, or Northwest Europe, is a loosely defined subregion of Europe, overlapping Northern and Western Europe. The term is used in geographic, [ 1 ] history, [ 2 ] and military contexts.
British people or Britons, also known colloquially as Brits, [22] are the citizens of the United Kingdom, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies. [23] [24] [25] British nationality law governs modern British citizenship and nationality, which can be acquired, for instance, by descent from British nationals.