I'm reading Edward Freeman's Old English History for Children and he uses the example of bees to explain not procreation, but colonialismpic.twitter.com/ZIjW5Zdw1s
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yes – it is exactly, exactly that: perfect material to study, but also making me physically sick.
Indeed :( Used in PhD+book as makes clear underlying attitudes that Freeman et al obscured in their 'scholarly' works on topic....
that was exactly my impression; makes me wonder about the reasons for obscuring (apparently not to deny – so then why? +
was it primarily because it didn't *need* explicating – while for children, who still had to learn, it did?)
Interesting idea & not implausible :( Fwiw, Freeman-like view that Britons all driven out etc still has academic supporters, alas.
thus the concept of #darkages because it does allow this vision of starting as independent nation through Alfred
in fact, Freeman argues for a much longer continuity, all the way to the English' continental origins
and presents Roman influence as the one mitigating factor in Britain's pre-English history, interestingly
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