When did immigration into the British Isles, (what now refer to as the United Kingdom), start?

Question

203, you are correct. Thanks.

Answer 1

At the latter end of the ice age, when there was a land bridge between Europe and (the current) UK mainland, hunters would follow the yearly migrations of Mammoth, caribou and other herd animals.
Some of these immigrants from eastern europe - no doubt - settled her as the climat became more temperate, and were cut off by the rising sea levels which created 'the channel'

Answer 2

Thousands of years ago when primitive humanity started moving out of Africa.

PS. The British Isles is the name given to a geographic region that includes countries/territories not part of the United Kingdom, like the Republic of Ireland, The Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. Do you mean Great Britain?

Answer 3

First the British Isles are still here and are all the islands and lands in the area known as Great Britain. The UK is England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and wales. Mass immigration started in the late 1950's and early 1960's. They were recruited from the west Indies by London Transport as they were short of Bus and train drivers. This immigration then spread to other jobs that the indigenous population were not keen to do.

Answer 4

When there were first people in the UK thousands of years ago.

The UK used to be joined to mainland Europe, and people have migrated to/from here for centuries. British people are all descended from a mixture of other Northern European countries, or even further afield. In more recent times the British isles have been invaded by vikings, Romans etc.

Answer 5

Immigration started when the first laws were passed that limited the movement of people into the country - before that there was free movement across borders and people lived where they wanted to. If you accept this concept then Immigration began with the Aliens Act of 1793

Answer 6

Define immigration. The native population for instance are indigenous, they followed the retreating ice shelf thousands of years ago and populated the British Isles. That makes them settlers/colonists and not immigrants. Immigrants are people that move to another settled country and agree to abide by that country's laws.
Gypsies are not immigrants for instance because they retain their own laws and customs and do not become a part of the country they move into.

Answer 7

a few thousand years ago. No one really knows how old we are. we know the romans came here in about 55bc. And which time the celts had been here for a long time. Apparantly most of us white english originate from central europe somewhere. So a rough guestimate would be 2,500 - 3000 years ago would be when it started on a large scale.

Answer 8

When humans first arrived here, thousands of years ago and people have been immigrating and emigrating ever since.

I suppose technically you could argue it was when the British mainland became an island, around 9000 years ago.

Answer 9

As far back as you care to remember. The British Isles were joined to Europe so neanderthals and homo sapiens walked up from Africa.

Answer 10

Since when our ancestors cam up from Africa as the UK used to be attached to mailand Europe.

Over the centuries, we have been constantly changing as a race from the Angles, the Saxons, the Roman etc etc etc