so where can we, where hominids have lived for longer, we think, draw a historical line and call some of the migrating tribes first?
well first came homo erectus, simple pre-humans, they say, but i don't doubt that they were far more human than animal, then other types of hominid from some groups from which or from their relatives elsewhere evolved both the neanderthals and modern humans, then the neanderthals and then the paleolithic 'modern' humans, both of whom seem to have lived here from about 100,000 to 30,000 years ago, and as far as I have come to believe both of whom left britain empty during some of the more severe glaciations until the end of the last one when only the northern paleoliths - the hunters - returned... but after a while the mesoliths - sea shore gatherers with mixed blood from the atlantic shore, african, mediterranean and neanderthal, thrifty and and nimble i imagine them to be, then following them the neoliths with there central and SE european origins plus either of middle eastern (beaker folk) or ukrainian-ish addition depending if ploughmen or herders... so thats three, unnamed races... can we still see them today? amongst them must have been various nations and tribes, but now we can only name the celts, goidels of the west, and brythons of the east of these islands, basically, and then romans, then the nordic tribes - jutes, frisians, saxons, angles, alans, danes, norse, and then the normans - franko-romano-celto-vikings from nearby normandy. with them came flemings and bretons.
and there i for one draw the line. 1066, and england had a stable political structure and settled down to mix all that.
in the 1100s a few jews settled here, but were expelled by 1300.
from about 1500, came the rom nation[s] of hindu origin, to settle, or rather peregrinate the isle, and during 1600s came dutchmen to drain marshland, jews, and hugenots from france.
that brings us to the glorious revolution and the founding of the modern kingdom of england. in 1688.
