Chichester Harbour in the south or England is the focus of this documentary as a potential landing site for invading Romans.
“It’s nice and sheltered a wonderful natural harbour which would have allowed large numbers of men to be disembarked.
The legend of King Arthur has come to be an integral part of the history of Britain with his magical sword and has spawned many movies.
The myth of the sword Excalibur holds a clue to what really happened in Britain A.D. The story of King Arthur is not a happy one. It involves an illegitimate boy raised by a magician called Merlin.
Our perception of Britishness has come from many years of British Identity formed by our flawed knowledge of historic British people.
Whether we hark back to Arthur or the Anglo-Saxons we Brits have always used history to create our British Identity. The trouble is that these identities are based on a wholly imagined past.
The Venerable Bede was a nonkk from Tynside was a learned man and wrote the Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
In fact, Christianity is big in the late Roman period. St Augustine arrived in a country that already knew about Christianity. And when Augustine arrives, it is by invitation.
Recent archeaological evidens shows that the Anglo Saxon myth of invasion is just a story that has beguiled us for many years.
As an island people, we Brits have been obsessed with the idea of invasion. And the story of the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons has long been accepted as a part of our history.