In an age when absolutely everything is turned into a race row, it was inevitable that the term “Anglo-Saxon” would be declared forboden. If hoop skirts, airports, and eating meat are racist, then the ...

There are four original manuscripts containing poetry in Old English—the now-defunct language of the medieval Anglo-Saxons—that have survived to the present day. No more, no less. They are: the ...

“None at all. But the Eurasian is a very bad mixture. He’s not a whole man... The only certainty about a Eurasian is his uncertainty.” Two characters in Henry Bruce’s novel The Eurasian are enamoured ...

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You hear the term everywhere these days in politics, pop music, business, even race relations. Anglo-Saxon. With the advent of the Human Genome Project, we now know a bit more about who the ...

For the first time, researchers have been able to directly estimate the Anglo-Saxon ancestry of the British population, using ancient skeletons. Human remains excavated from burial sites near ...