This is an information resource for the English - an indigenous (native) people of the British Isles. The purpose is to give assistance in their struggle against betrayal, State treason, and genocide.

Ethnicity and Nationhood

Ethnicity is an extension of kinship. An ethnic group have a long, shared history, have connections to a homeland, and possess a common ethnic culture. The general concept of ethnicity and nationhood, as an ancient form of self-identification for an enduring community of people, is well established (see, for example, the descriptions of the 'dynastic' nations given in [1], [2]). A nation is an ethnic group ('a people') occupying their homeland and having commonly recognised inheritances, rights, obligations and duties.

The Irreducibility of Ethnic Identity

Actual ethnicity (and cultural identity) is an emergent phenomenon. It is contingent upon the 'long, shared history' of a people within a complex and complicated world. We can no more change our actual ethnic identity than we can change actual history.

The ethnicity of a group is irreducible. However that does not mean that the actual ethnic histories of the individual members are unimportant. Our individual claim to ethnicity must be in accord with the implied and actual historical consent of the ethnic community to which we belong. This consent must therefore be based substantially on the wishes of the dead as a requirement established by custom and under law. As the contemporary philosopher and writer Roger Scruton observes: " remove the dead from the equation and you remove the unborn." [3].

People, in general, have no doubt about the importance of their ethnicity, even if they seldom conciously reflect upon it: "The fundamental motivator of human behaviour is not material interest, but ethnic identity; concern for the status of one's ethnic group, for the well-being of that ethnie in that most intangible sense of myth and culture, for the well being of the members of that ethnie. This is a statement of fact, and a fact that utterly divorces liberalism from the object of its discourse; it is as if liberalism has an entirely different world in mind." [4].

The Nations of The British Isles

The British Isles is home to a number of extraordinarily ancient ethnic nations, including : England; Cornwall; Wales; Scotland; Ireland; Ulster Ireland and The Outer Isles. This perception of actual ethno-British identity (of 'dynastic nations') has been vindicated, in no small part, by the immense efforts of many eminent and distinguished researchers: historians, field archaeologists, forensic archaeologists, genetic anthropologists, genealogists, and linguists.

The use of genetic anthropology has become a powerful tool in uncovering our ancestry. The idea that the English - as 'a people' - might not be post-Roman but much more ancient, was still clearly 'out of the question' for some of those performing the first research into the population genetics of the English [5][6]. However, as more comprehensive and precise testing began to be introduced, then surprising results (for the investigators) began to emerge - that the English people of today are overwhelmingly the descendents of 'the first people' [7]. The English lineage is much more ancient than previously thought.

Professor Bryan Sykes, Professor of Human Genetics at The University of Oxford has observed: "We are an ancient people, and though the Isles have been the target of invasion and opposed settlement from abroad ever since Julius Caesar first stepped on to the shingle shores of Kent, these have barely scratched the topsoil of our deep-rooted ancestry. However we may feel about ourselves and about each other, we are genetically rooted in a Celtic past. The Irish, the Welsh and the Scots know this, but the English sometimes think otherwise. But, just a little way beneath the surface, the strands of ancestry weave us all together as the children of a common past." [8].

More definitively, Dr. Stephen Oppenheimer sums up his comprehensive assessment of the extensive scientific data thus: "Two thirds of the English people reveal an unbroken line of genetic descent from south-western Europeans arriving long before the first farmers. Most of the remaining third arrived between 6,000 and 3,000 years ago as part of long-term north-west European trade and immigration, especially from Scandinavia - possibly carrying the earliest froms of English language. As for the Celts - the Irish, Scots and Welsh - ... genetic evidence shows the majority to have arrived via the Atlantic coastal route from Ice Age refuges including the Basque country ... There is indeed a divide between the English and the rest of the British, but the division is many thousands of years older than we ever knew." [9]*

* Importantly, Dr. Oppenheimer has provided very insightful (and useful) replies to some of the responses to his work (of critical comment, in particular), in an interview given in June 2007 [10].

These findings have been supported by more recent research work - such as that of Dr. Catherine Hills of Cambridge University, Dominic Powlesland and Dr. Sam Lucy (field archaeology and forensic archaeology regarding burial practices) [11]; and Dr. Andrew Pearson (archaeology of the 'Saxon' Shore Forts). The field archaeologist and writer Dr. Francis Pryor has made interesting observations on the consensus-shift within the scientific community over the last 40 years, regarding the origins of the English [12].

State Nationhood

A good historical insight into a collective perception of identity can be found in those documents that relate to rights of sovereign representation, of inheritence, and of land tenure.

The Magna Carta is widely recognised as a major landmark in the development of our constitution. What is perhaps not so widely known is that it also contains an implicit recognition of the 'family of nations' of the British Isles. Signatories of the Great Charter included Alan deGalloway (Constable of Scotland to Alexander II), Henry Archbishop of Dublin, and William Marshall earl of Pembroke. Therefore all four of the principle nations of the British Isles were represented [13].

Long before the time of Athelstan and Alfred, we find diplomatic communications also containing an implicit recognition of the English nation: "The words and promises you bring are fair enough, but because they are new to us and doubtful, I cannot consent to accept them and forsake those beliefs which I and the whole English race have held so long" [King Ethelbert to Augustine - AD 597]. Interestingly we have in this statement both an assertion of English self identity, and of sovereignty (in terms of ethnic/racial nationhood) as well as a recognition of the considerable ethnic ancestory (even prior to the 6th Century).

Recognition by Statute

The actuality of ethnic identity (that must include an identity for the English) is recognised by international law, treaties, obligations and international agencies (for example see [14] and [15]), and in Law (for example see [16], [17]). The legal principle of Jus Sanguinis is commonly referred to as the ‘rights of blood’ – of a ‘morally just’ right (or, a right under natural law) as a consequence of an ancestral entitlement to occupation of a homeland. It therefore effectively defines the ethnic (or native) membership of a Nation in its true sense (of ‘a people’ in occupation of their land).

These are principals widely recognised and respected, for aboriginal populations throughout the World. But not for the English, however.

An eminent lawyer, in examining the legal position regarding nationality, ethnicity and race, especially in regard to the English, has submitted this considered opinion: "The first people to call themselves the English are the common (though not necessarily the only) ancestors of the indigenous people of England. If you are of the first English, any attempts to make you accept a single or uniform civic inclusive non-racial meaning to the word English to the exclusion of all others, is an attempt to get you to give up, before you have even enjoyed them, your rights under the RR Act [18]. These rights are the rights that Parliament in 1965 intended you to enjoy" [19]. And, of course, this argument applies equally to the Scottish, the Welsh, the Irish ... and the other indigenous nations of the British Isles.

References

[1] 'Nationalism', Anthony D Smith, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2001

[2] 'Nation' - a community of people of mainly common descent, history, language, etc., forming a State or inhabiting a territory [The Concise Oxford Dictionary, OUP, 1990].

[3] 'England ­ an Elegy', by Roger Scruton, Pimlico, 2001, page 187

[4] 'Ethnicity and Ideology', Gavan Tredoux, in Stalking The Wild Taboo, www.lrainc.com/taboos/gt_ethnic.html

[5] 'The Blood of The Vikings - Genetic Survey', University College London and BBC TV, December 2001

[6] 'Y Chromosome Evidence for Anglo-Saxon Mass Migration', M E Weale et al, Molecular Biology and Evolution, vol. 19, 2002

[7] 'A Y-Chromosome Census of The British Isles', D B Goldstein et al, Current Biology, Vol. 13, May 2003

[8] 'Blood of the Isles', Bryan Sykes, Bantam Press, London, 2006

[9] 'The Origins of the British', Stephen Oppenheimer', pub. Constable & Robinson Ltd., London 2007.

[10] A response by Dr. Stephen Oppenheimer to questions relating to his October 2006 article 'Myths of British Ancestry', Prospect Magazine, issue 135, June 2007

[11] 'The Anglo-Saxon Way of Death', Dr. Sam Lucy, Sutton Publishing, 2000

[12] 'Britain AD - A Quest for Arthur, England and the Anglo-Saxons', Dr. Francis Pryor, Harper Perennial, London 2005 - in particular chapter 6, The 'Anglo-Saxon' Origins of England.

[13] Sovereignty, magazine issue number 84, June 2006

[14] United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation http://www.unesco.org

[15] International Working Group for Indigenous Affairs http://www.IWGIA.org

[16] Mandla v Dowell Lee, House of Lords, 1983

[17] BBC v Souster, Court of Session, 2001

[18] The Race Relations Act 1976 (as amended) (The RR Act)

[19] 'The English Racial Group Identity and The Law', Steadfast Journal, Issue 18, Winter 2006/7

[20] 'A Nation of Immigrants? - A Brief Demographic History of Britain', David Conway, Civitas, London 2007