A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

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Census 2011: Census in brief (PDF). Pretoria: Statistics South Africa. 2012. p.26. ISBN 978-0-621-41388-5. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 May 2015. The number of people who described themselves as white in terms of population group and specified their first language as English in South Africa's 2011 Census was 1,603,575. The total white population with a first language specified was 4,461,409 and the total population was 51,770,560. Winston Churchill's A History of the English-Speaking Peoples is a history of the British Isles written by Churchill between the years of 1937 and 1956. Churchill took a leading role in writing the book, but he did depend on a number of dedicated research assistants who were invaluable in gathering the information he needed. His account begins with Caesar's conquest in 55 BC of large areas of the British Isles and concludes at the advent of the Great War in 1914. The text also considers the early history of the United States of America, whose people for Churchill were a close kindred of his own (given their shared Protestant roots and their commitments to forms of government ruled by the populous). From about 800 AD waves of Danish Viking assaults on the coastlines of the British Isles were gradually followed by a succession of Danish settlers in England. At first, the Vikings were very much considered a separate people from the English. This separation was enshrined when Alfred the Great signed the Treaty of Alfred and Guthrum to establish the Danelaw, a division of England between English and Danish rule, with the Danes occupying northern and eastern England. [71] Churchill's A History of The English-Speaking Peoples is written with characteristic vigor and poetic flare—always attentive to the broader international picture in its portrayal of individual events. His British patriotism comes across in his elevation of British historical figures and his demonizing of various French (or otherwise non-Anglo-Saxon) entities. In this way, his work can be read as an example of the racial exceptionalism with which many British citizens understood themselves during the early years of the twentieth century.

Church Statistics" (PDF). Church of England. 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 April 2016 . Retrieved 21 February 2022. per cent of Bangladeshis said they were British, while only 5 per cent said they were English, Scottish or Welsh", and the largest percentage of non-whites to identify as English were the people who described their ethnicity as " Mixed" (37%). 'Identity', National Statistics, 21 February 2006 Carr, Raymond (2003). "The invention of Great Britain: A review of The Making of English Identity by Krishnan Kumar". The Spectator. UK. Archived from the original on 11 November 2011. English identity open to all, regardless of race, finds poll – and Three Lions is the symbol that unites us". British Future. 9 June 2021. Archived from the original on 29 October 2021 . Retrieved 29 October 2021. Kumar, Krishan (2010). "Negotiating English identity: Englishness, Britishness and the future of the United Kingdom". Nations and Nationalism. 16 (3): 469–487. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8129.2010.00442.x.Roberts rightly lampoons those who claim a moral equivalence between the terrors of Mao and Stalin and the abuses of the West. He then uses this argument perversely to shrug off Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. He remains blind to the damage they have caused to the moral credibility of the very values he espouses. At no point does he consider whether the Bush presidency may in itself be an aberration threatening a political culture that has secured the links between liberal democracies across the Atlantic and Pacific. Gibbons, Ann (21 February 2017). "Thousands of horsemen may have swept into Bronze Age Europe, transforming the local population". Science. Bowler, Peter J. (2001). Reconciling science and religion: the debate in early-twentieth-century Britain. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p.194. . A History of Britain: The British Wars 1603–1776 by Simon Schama, BBC Worldwide. ISBN 0-563-53747-7. English ancestry is the largest single ancestry New Zealanders share. Several million New Zealanders are estimated to have some English ancestry [142] From 1840, the English comprised the largest single group among New Zealand's overseas-born, consistently being over 50 percent of the total population. [143]

A Y Chromosome Census of the British Isles" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 June 2020 . Retrieved 7 June 2020. When the Oxford History of England was launched a generation ago, "England" was still an all-embracing word. It meant indiscriminately England and Wales; Great Britain; the United Kingdom; and even the British Empire. Foreigners used it as the name of a Great Power and indeed continue to do so. Bonar Law, by origin a Scotch Canadian, was not ashamed to describe himself as "Prime Minister of England" [...] Now terms have become more rigorous. The use of "England" except for a geographic area brings protests, especially from the Scotch. [36]Saint George is recognised as the patron saint of England, and the flag of England consists of his cross. Before EdwardIII, the patron saint was StEdmund; and StAlban is also honoured as England's first martyr. An examination of the English ancestry of George Washington, setting forth the evidence to connect him with the Washingtons of Sulgrave and Brington. Boston, Printed for the New England historic genealogical society. 1889. Archived from the original on 3 February 2021 . Retrieved 18 December 2019– via Google Books. English people traditionally speak the English language, a member of the West Germanic language family. The modern English language evolved from Middle English (the form of language in use by the English people from the 12th to the 15th century); Middle English was influenced lexically by Norman-French, Old French and Latin. In the Middle English period Latin was the language of administration and the nobility spoke Norman French. Middle English was itself derived from the Old English of the Anglo-Saxon period; in the Northern and Eastern parts of England the language of Danish settlers had influenced the language, a fact still evident in Northern English dialects. [ citation needed] Gledhill, Ruth (15 February 2007). "Catholics set to pass Anglicans as leading UK church". The Times. London. Archived from the original on 18 September 2011 . Retrieved 18 February 2015.