identity

Am I English or British or European or what?

Am I Anglo-Saxon?

(6.30-12mins; 13.45-15.45mins)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01jtfzf/The_Great_British_Story_A_Peoples_History_The_Norman_Yoke/

Am I German?

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/06/britons-english-germans-and-collective-action/
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/the-anglo-saxon-invasion-britain-is-more-germanic-than-it-thinks-a-768706.html

 































Am I French?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8424904/People-with-Norman-names-wealthier-than-other-Britons.html
http://talesfromthelou.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/people-with-norman-names-wealthier-than-other-britons-and-were-likely-rich-1000-years-ago/

Surnames which indicated nobility and wealth in medieval times are still richer even today, research has suggested.
‘Moneyed’ surnames, such as Darcy, Percy, Baskerville and Mandeville continue to have more cash than those with ‘poor’ names, such as Smith, Mason and Cooper.
The research, which uses university admissions, probate records and official information going as far back as the Domesday Book, tracked what happened to those whose surnames suggest their forebears were either aristocratic or ‘artisans’ from the working class.

I know my place: This medieval woodcut shows serfs working the fields while their king looks on 

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