Erasing England’s Past – the Anglo-Saxons

An article in The Daily Telegraph (3 June 2023) highlights the latest attempt by ‘elite’ groups to erase the past of the English people. Headlined, ‘Anglo-Saxons aren’t real, Cambridge tells students in effort to fight “nationalism’’’, the article describes the latest attempt to replace the history of our people in order to enable our physical replacement. This drive by Cambridge University is not new, with a range of anti-English academics having already pushed this narrative that supports enforced change in our homelands. It is all part of a wide-ranging attack on our peoples. The perpetrators are predominantly to be found in highly privileged groups, be they Cambridge academics, mainstream broadcast media ‘stars’, or globalising corporate capitalists. Resistance to all these forms of attack is essential. We must defend England, and Europe.

Identity England activists recently staged a postering action in Wolverton, a subsidiary town of Milton Keynes. The posters showed an image of the famous statue of King Alfred the Great at Winchester and carried the legend ‘Defend England’. Alfred the Great referred to himself as the ‘king of the Anglo-Saxons’, as did his successors. The town of Wolverton was chosen for the Identity England action because its history provides an outline of some of fortunes and misfortunes of the English. The town was founded at the very beginning of the Anglo-Saxon period, in the 5^th Century. Its Old English name means ‘Wulfhere’s settlement’. The settlement grew over the next two hundred years, and as the Anglo-Saxons adopted Christianity, a parish church, Holy Trinity, was built. A church of that name still stands on the same site. The people who founded and built Wolverton in those early centuries would have called themselves ‘Angles’, ‘Saxons’, ‘Anglo-Saxons’, ‘English’. They knew who they were, and so do we, because we are their inheritors.

Wolverton’s later history is also interesting in that, just as now, it endured periods of attack by ‘elites’. The first was, of course, the Norman conquest, which abruptly ended nearly half a millennium of the Anglo-Saxon project, the political and cultural project that saw the melding together of the Anglo-Saxons with the remains of Romano-British society to create England. Some 8,000 Normans completely replaced the English ruling class, seized their lands, instituted Norman feudalism, and established a viciously repressive regime. In Wolverton, the new lords were the de Wolvertons, then the de Longueville family (originating in Calvados, Normandy). The next misfortune came in the shape of the enclosure movement, that 300 hundred year destruction of English peasant life, seizure of common grazing, enclosure of open fields, and the creation of an impoverished and defenceless class. Enclosure by the de Longuevilles took place early at Wolverton and was complete by 1654. For the English at Wolverton that meant complete expropriation. The 30 families who had lived there in the late 16^th Century were reduced to none by 1654. They had been replaced by sheep and cattle, their historic right to their land erased.

Today, the English face historical erasure, as ‘elites’ in academia, media and corporate capital argue that we do not exist, have never existed. Therefore, says their ‘narrative’, we have no claim on our only homeland, we are no more entitled to this land than any other interloper the ‘elites’ choose over us. We can be replaced as far as they are concerned. Wolverton is now part of Milton Keynes, and the 2021 Census showed that only 62% of Milton Keynes is only ‘White British’, with only 36% of central Milton Keynes being ‘White British’.  Identity England totally rejects the ‘narrative’ that we have no history, that we have no future in our own homeland. We are the English. We know who we are. Identity England says, Defend England!