This is not rewriting history. It is history. There are evidence, I am sorry you cannot deal with facts. Britain wasn't all white. https://twitter.com/dankriviera/status/889994731316543488 …
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Fwiw, at the higher-status The Railway cemetery at Roman York, up to 51% of the population are potentially of 'black' or 'mixed' origins...!
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Sure :) See https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/744286383771127808 … The conservative minimum estimate is 11%, 51% is possible max. Summary here: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/10/oxygen-isotope-evidence.html …
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The research project incl full archive of the skulls+teeth examined from Roman York is available online here: http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/diaspora_ahrc_2011/ …
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Leicester and London projects ongoing, latter incl DNA, showing similar as mentioned before in tweet. Winchester+Gloucester isotope only, >
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> both published, refs on webpage but 12%+ have v enriched results, at African levels etc etc. (Refs & summaries in webpage I cited earlier)
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Well, these are major Roman cities, & Britain ceased to be officially part of empire in 5thC. However, worth noting that evidence from >
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> outside of cities too, eg. https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/735761635806060544 … & from post-Roman period as well. Isotope evidence looks at teeth, allows you to see >
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> 1st gen immigrants from Africa etc (but not, note, 2nd gen etc!) as reflects water drunk in childhood, which varies depending on climate.
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