On 26/10/15 13:58, Chris Dickinson wrote: > On Saturday, 24 October 2015 06:15:53 UTC+1, Steve Hayes wrote: >> Britons still live in Anglo-Saxon tribal kingdoms, Oxford University >> finds >> >> A new genetic map of Britain shows that there has been little movement >> between areas of Britain which were former tribal kingoms in >> Anglo-Saxon England > <snip> > > > That a core population has remained doesn't say anything about movement. > > The area that I study is largely rural. It could only support a limited population. Any surplus had to move somewhere else. > That raises an interesting question. Given the number of recurrences of the plague between the C14th & C17th to what extent did a surplus build up? -- Hotmail is my spam bin. Real address is ianng at austonley org uk

On Monday, 26 October 2015 17:16:50 UTC, Ian Goddard wrote: > On 26/10/15 13:58, Chris Dickinson wrote: > > On Saturday, 24 October 2015 06:15:53 UTC+1, Steve Hayes wrote: > >> Britons still live in Anglo-Saxon tribal kingdoms, Oxford University > >> finds > >> > >> A new genetic map of Britain shows that there has been little movement > >> between areas of Britain which were former tribal kingoms in > >> Anglo-Saxon England > > <snip> > > > > > > That a core population has remained doesn't say anything about movement. > > > > The area that I study is largely rural. It could only support a limited population. Any surplus had to move somewhere else. > > > > That raises an interesting question. Given the number of recurrences of > the plague between the C14th & C17th to what extent did a surplus build up? > > -- > Hotmail is my spam bin. Real address is ianng > at austonley org uk A standard view is that there was steady population growth after the Black Death. http://chartsbin.com/view/28k The last blips were the 1623 famine, the Civil War and the Great Plague. What's more, after the mid-seventeenth century, the home population increased despite migration to Ireland and the colonies.