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Crossing the Waters: Britain in the Dark Age

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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The Story of the Anglo Saxon Invasion

The story of the anglo saxon invasion comes from several fairly early sources, starting within a couple of hundred years after the supposed event. And our basic story that they tell is more or less like this: Around the year 430, britons in the island found that they needed security in the absence of the roman troops. From very early on, we hear of of theAnglo saxons as the kind of fearsome conquerors showing up in their ships.

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