The origins of the British

Pocketbok. Robinson. 2007. 628 sidor.

Mycket gott skick. Two-thirds of the English people reveal an unbroken line of genetic descent from south-western Europeans arriving long before the first farmers., via the Atlantic coastal route including the Basque country.
The bulk of the remaining third arrived between 7,000 and 3,000 years ago as part of long-term north-west European trade and immigration, especially from Scandinavia - and may have brought with them the earliest forms of English language.

As for the Celts - the Irish, Scots and Welsh - history has traditionally placed their origins in Iron Age Central Europe. Oppenheimer's genetic synthesis tells a different story. There is indeed a deep divide between the English and the rest of the British. But as this book reveals the division is many thousands of years older than previously thought.