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Workers History of England Pre History to the End of Feudalism

A people’s history of England will cover the history of the English working person and their struggles from pre-history to the end of the feudal age. English history is obsessed with kings and queens and the schemes of the ruling classes, I hope this humble video will give people a new perspective on English history to draw inspiration and curiosity from. Before the written records begin, we have only the archaeological record to go on which can answer where and when things happened, social archaeology and anthropology are the best tools we have to help us make assumptions about this far back into the past. These are the tools we must use to look at English society before the Roman period which is just a description we are using to define a geographical area relevant to us and would have not been familiar to the peoples living  at this time . This covers the period from the earliest settlers of England, these people would have been mobile hunter-gatherer groups made up of