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Originally Posted by Oberon 
England has a history of bloody war and conquest, primarily conquest OF England by its neighbours (little wonder that when we finally stopped being invaded we spent the rest of our history invading everyone else). First the Romans, then the Angles and the Saxons, then the Vikings, then the Normans, and then when we got bored of that we had several civil wars, played with republicanism, split from the Pope and went on to become an industrial powerhouse before being thoroughly economically thrashed in two world wars.
The period before the Norman invasion, the death of 'the old ways' and the coming of Christianity, the fight for Brytenwalda. It's quite a fascinating era, one that I've barely scratched the surface of it. Lots of old relics from the era around here though, there's an Anglo-Saxon cemetary complete with burial ship just down the road from here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_Hoo) and where I lived when I first moved up here was said to be just across the river from where Boudica made camp on her way south from Iceni territory to sack Camulodunum.
I must admit, that is one thing I do feel sorry for chaps in the US for, a dearth of historical sites and buildings, not that there aren't any, but they are all clustered in a specific era.
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I didn't mean to go fishing on someone else's thread, but this subject is so
interesting ... I will start another thread called, "The history of the United Kingdom that you have come to love or hate"
Come on over ... you too Steve
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The history channel got me started the other night with a show about Saxon's gold ...
a whole field of gold that some farmer found with a metal detector. It was really a good show too, but I had to look up Saxon and what I found was horrible about the history of poor England and that was just the start of their woes of course.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxons