Tom Rowsell
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Historian, YouTuber, Heathen community leader 🇬🇧 🏴 some tweets are satirical. Over 28 million views on YouTube https://t.co/fk3pIUNubH
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This Cornishman compares the clannish culture of the people of Sennen Cove, at the western edge of Britain, to that of the Indian caste system. Dick George, interviewed in 1982, grew up on the sandy ridge above the cove but was still regarded as an outsider by the covers who would discourage their daughters from marrying his kind. This explains why the People of the British Isles study discovered in 2015 that natives of Cornwall formed their own genetic cluster, distinct from that of Devon on the other side of the Tamar. Intermarriage with Cornishmen in the neighbouring village, let alone with Welshmen or Devonians, was discouraged. What preserved Cornish as a distinct genetic group in England, while much of the rest homogenised into a single genetic cluster, is lack of domestic migration during the Industrial Revolution - no one was moving to Cornwall in the early modern period. But since the 1980’s that has been changing fast, especially since Covid. The 2021 census recorded only around 117,350 people identifying as Cornish in the UK. This makes them less than 20% of the population of Cornwall. Domestic migration or “incomers” and intermarriage with them has ended Cornish tribalism.
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A deep dive on the new paper which seeks to "challenge" preconceived notions of Anglo-Saxon England which was apparently "diverse" because out of the hundreds of skeletons analysed from the period, two have been found with 1/4 African ancestry. I explain who these people really were and the extent to which they were significant (they weren't)
Tom Rowsell115,577 次观看 • 1 年前