Prof Michael Woods’ thoughtful and supportive discussion of the current controversy around the racist connotations of the term ‘Anglo-Saxon’ https://www.historyextra.com/period/anglo-saxon/professor-michael-wood-anglo-saxon-name-debate-is-term-racist/ …
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Replying to @DrSueOosthuizen
Hello; the tearm Anglo-Saxon is a bit of an oddity and probably should be removed. It does not include the Scandinavian/Viking element of the period that Anglo-Saxon is referring to. Of it is to be kept then it will need to be changed to Anglo-Saxon-Jutes-Native-Britains.
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Replying to @Wiblicks @DrSueOosthuizen
The ethnic makeup of the peoples who migrated aren’t even really known. We have no idea how they ID’d themselves. By the time we have writing from them they are saying Anglian or Anglisc aka English.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @DrSueOosthuizen
Exactly; which is why removing Anglo-Saxon is no bad thing. The illegal Norman invasion and their drive (which still effects today's politics) that Britain was a backwards place; hence building over/destroying anything from before their arrival. Hasn't helped at all.
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Replying to @Wiblicks @DrSueOosthuizen
They didn’t destroy everything although there was certainly rhetoric at the time. They integrated and started calling themselves English. The Anglo-Norman ethnonym was also not common and a product of later writings generally. My friend
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They didn't leave much. Winchester, Glastonbury, Canterbury, Westminster, Bristol, Gloucester, Norfolk, Northampton, Newark, Nottingham, York, Durham all lost either their Town/Cathedral or Cathedral to Norman thuggery. Not to mention the concentration camps on South Coast.
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The records of the harrying of the North may well have been exaggerated. Not saying they didn’t do harm, or even clear out towns etc but many existing structures were repaired by the “invaders” or whatever you want to call them. I would also caution the use of concentration camps
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As the terminology there. Again, people integrated very quickly. Lots of historiographical debates on this topic that are hard to get into on here.
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