Who were in U.K before whom? Celts, Saxons, Muslims, Jews, Protestants, ,Scotch, Scandinavians, or others?

Question

Celts were also in Spain, Scandinavians ( Vikings ) were also in Mexico.

Germanic-Roman-Latino Empire were in all Europe, but who were before them in the UK Island?

Answer 1

There were people in Britain long before the Celts came across, which I think was around 500 BC, but we don't know much about them, like what language they spoke. In fact people have been in Briatin continuousy for thousands of years.

When the Romans came, they found people speaking a language similar to Welsh, and also similar to Gaulish spoken in France and Belgium. Many of the Celtic tribes still had connections with their cousins on the European mainland. In the North of Scotland were the Picts, who may have spoken a Celtic language - no-one knows for sure.

The Romans came and went, even though they were here for four hundred years it doesn't seem that they left many descendants in Britain. It was always a bit of an outpost of the Roman Empire, cold, remote, unattractive to settlers.

Then betwen about 450-600 AD, the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and Frisians came from Holland, Northern Germany, and Denmark; they fought many wars with the (Welsh) Britons, overwhelming them. It seems that they were largely ethnically cleansed from most of England - many refugees went to France, to the area that came to be known as Little Britain, now Brittany. But Wales remained Welsh speaking, while Scotland was invaded by the Scots, an Irish tribe.

Later, from around 800 AD, the Danes and Vikings came from Scandinavia. Originally they were just raiders, but they ended up settling much of Northern England.

Of course, in 1066 we had the Normans coming from Northern France. They took their name from "Northmen", as Normandy had been conquered by Vikings previously, but they spoke a French dialect, and were probably descended more from Gauls and Romans than from Scandinavians.

Thankfully, that was the last serious invasion of Britain. Since then, there has been constant interchange of people with nearby countries, and those countries too with all their neighbours, so it is nothing surprising to find a little Mongol blood dating from their incursion into Europe, for example.

We had a large number of Protestant refugees from France - the Huguenots - in around 1680 - check

http://www.huguenotsociety.org.uk/history/

Jews had also been present for hundreds of years, before they were expelled in 1290 - they were allowed back by Cromwell in about 1650. There were Italian merchants, and even Blacks were present in Shakespeare's time. More Blacks arrived as servants and freemen as Britain's Empire began to grow.

Many Jews arrived from Eastern Europe from about 1880; there were also communities of Yemenis and Chinese, that originally arrived as seamen. In the 1930s we had Jewish refugees from Germany, and Basque refugees from Spain.

During the Second World War, a large number of Poles came to fight against the Germans, and couldn't go back after because they couldn't accept the Communist regime.

Because of labour shortages, the British government recruited Italians and West Indians to work here; then people came from India, Pakistan and Bangla Desh. And since then, as the world has become a smaller and smaller place, people have come from all parts of the world, just as people have gone from here to all over.

There's nothing new about immigration, and nothing new about people's fears and hostility. But each wave of migrants gets absorbed into the population.

Answer 2

Britons during the Roman period. Angles and Saxons from Germany during the early middle ages. Normans (from Normandy in France) 1066. The population was Roman Catholic from the early middle ages, from the time of the Venerable Bede in the 400s. There was a Jewish population until the 13th Century when they were expelled. The Church of England was established in the 1500s to accomodate King Henry VIII's desire to divorce that the Catholic Church would not grant him. Celts from Ireland and Scotland, Picts from Wales are part of the UK. Muslims only in the late 20th century.

Answer 3

The Celts were there first (Scotch are included in Celt). You forgot about the Danes.

Answer 4

Germanic and roman setler are what Welsh people are made from!
In Wales the history goes back about 20,000 years, it is one of the oldest civilizations!... even older than asian!.....search for yourself!