The Anglo‑Saxon Arrival: Invasion, Migration or Mosaic?

This episode explores the contested picture of how Germanic peoples – Angles, Saxons and Jutes – came to Britain in the early fifth and sixth centuries. Using archaeological finds, DNA research, and contemporary writing such as Gildas and Bede, we examine whether these people arrived en masse, settled gradually or blended with existing communities, and how that process set the foundations for later English identity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices