tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post8307288161376583459..comments2023-08-29T09:01:57.436+01:00Comments on Musings of a Durotrigan: 'Make Bradford British', Channel 4Durotriganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12427474698912082351noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-59107646494615046682012-03-07T22:40:59.804+00:002012-03-07T22:40:59.804+00:00Its your disgusting insulting attiude that make pe...Its your disgusting insulting attiude that make people unwillling to mix "gary rumain."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-58340658615785601282012-03-01T09:20:45.935+00:002012-03-01T09:20:45.935+00:00Boot the arselifters out and Bradford will be Brit...Boot the arselifters out and Bradford will be British.Mad Dog Gazzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13924660756119419467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-3971815375100508722012-03-01T01:09:23.741+00:002012-03-01T01:09:23.741+00:00@ Juniper : Bede's vocation was pretty much ba...@ Juniper : Bede's vocation was pretty much based at Jarrow and Monkwearmouth, not Lindisfarne, and it was here he wrote 'An Ecclesiastical History of the English People' as opposed to English speaking people as Durotrigan points out. <br />Incidently, It's wonderful to read Bede's description of the English and their origin. No talk of 'a nation of immigrants', more Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-43068190813210901012012-02-29T22:16:50.540+00:002012-02-29T22:16:50.540+00:00An ecclesiastical history of the English, rather t...An ecclesiastical history of the English, rather than of the English-speaking peoples. The English as a distinct ethnic group with a sense of collective identity had already emerged by the seventh century when Bede was born, despite the fact that they were politically divided into the heptarchy. However, you're right in noting that he didn't write his history until the following century Durotriganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12427474698912082351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657878812884081988.post-36194681171475434792012-02-29T21:45:17.804+00:002012-02-29T21:45:17.804+00:00The hideous irony!! 'St Bede's School.'...The hideous irony!! 'St Bede's School.' St Bede who was an English monk at the holy monastery on Holy Island,in the 8th century(when pisslam was expanding and colonising Christian countries in the ME) and wrote the first history of the English Speaking Peoples. Oh woe!!!Juniper in the Deserthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05708630426785072160noreply@blogger.com