britain

This paper analyses more than a thousand ancient genomes from Britain to understand how migration, social structure, and natural selection shaped the population between the Iron Age and the medieval period. It finds that during Roman rule there were major cultural and political changes, but...

That's a question that had been on my mind. How do countries differ in the age at which children start drinking tea in tea-drinking cultures such as Britain, Turkey, Morocco, Russia and Japan. I also wondered whether tea was usually available at school in these countries. Tea Around the World...

I recently came across this deep dive by Evan Edinger titled "Why The Internet Is Terrified of London," and I think it’s a must-watch for anyone who spends time on social media. We’ve all seen the viral clips: masked gangs on the Tube, "no-go zones," and claims that the city has become a lawless...

How was wondering if there was any substantial difference in alcohol consumption between British regions and whether they was some truth to the stereotype of the Scots drinking a lot of spirits like whisky. Well it seems to be true recording to this scientific study: Regional alcohol...

One of the main arguments for Brexit was that Britain would be able to negotiate its own trade deals with other countries on its own. Nearly 5 years after Brexit has come into effect the UK has only negotiated trade deals with Japan, Australia and New Zealand, and as this video explains none of...

I found this chart made from a recent YouGov poll. I would say that everything is pretty much as I expected, except maybe that Japan and Israel rank lower than I would have thought.

Most of the news coming from the UK in the last few years has been rather depressing. Obviously the countries suffering from Brexit, but not only. Brexit has exacerbated all previous underlying problems, like the lack of housing and the inefficient NHS. The UK now looks like the sick man of...

This is what the British newspaper The Economist says in its latest featured article. This may seem ironic considering that British people have voted for Brexit did it in great part to limit immigration. Here are a few excerpts from the article. Britain also has more varied foreign...

Communication between Europeans is much more complicated than between, say, Americans. Obviously Europe has a lot of different languages. But even if everybody speaks the same language, for example English, misunderstandings often result from cultural differences in the way people express...

The UK has been holding population census every decade since 1801. The last one was conducted in 2021, but results are only starting to get published now. Within the UK, England has seen the fastest population growth, jumping from 50 to 59 million inhabitants! The increase is solely due to...

The UK is now one of the slowest growing economy in Europe and suffers from the highest inflation. Its labour productivity growth is now the lowest after Greece and Italy, after being one of the highest in the early 2000's. But that's not all, far from it. TLDR summarised it well in this video.

My mtDNA haplogroup result is N1'5 and I'm slightly baffled and intrigued by what this means. Most of known ancestry is very rooted in a small area of eastern England. My Y-DNA is an easier to explain/understand I1a1b1. I'm struggling to find much information about N1'5 or what it might mean...

In Bell Beaker Iberia K1a1b1 (the ancestor of the most common Askenazi mitochondrial haplogroup) are 4/37 of the samples. That's basically being part of the population. While as we know, the Yamnaya replaced also the women in Britain. Leaving only 1/37 of the samples that managed to survive...

My grandfathers ydna was I-FT258149, and his paternal line is originally from West Yorkshire, and parts of Northern Nottinghamshire (East Midlands). This haplogroup belongs to I-M253>I-DF29>I-Y2592>I-CTS6364>I-S4795>I-FGC20030>I-FT3275>I-A5338>I-A5339. So just based on how it is classified, it...

So I was recently reading a bit about the archeology of the material culture in western Scotland that debunks the idea of an Irish invasion, and it got me thinking. What migration patterns would you expect of the 4 "main" ethnic groups that amalgamated to form the modern day Scots on a tool like...

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/02/bronze-age-women-altered-genetic-landscape-of-orkney/142705?amp A new study has found something unbelievable. That in the Early Bronze Age, instead of the male dominated invasion of Europe that we all here know. It was women the ones that were brought to...

https://phys.org/news/2021-12-harvard-geneticists-ancient-britain-insights.amp A new David Reich's paper has shed light of a 50% population turnover at the end of Bronze Age (1200-800 BC) in Britain. We're yet to see what about Ireland. The settlers descended from a population in France. Given...

I have checked Ragnar Lothbrok's genealogy to find if he had male line descendants to this day. It would not be surprising considering that he had eight sons and they became powerful rulers of their own. The main issue is that the genealogy is disputed. If enough Y-DNA lines survived, it would...

Good Evening This is my first post occasioned by receipt of my BIG Y as itemized in the subject line. My introduction to genetic testing began when a gentleman who shared our last name wanted to prove that his Hunts were related to our de Vere Hunts of Curragh Chase and by definition from...

After Gaul, Italy, Iberia and Germanic tribes, here are the Dodecad K12b ancient British people from the Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age. I have calculated the average values (modal) for each period. I then compared these modals to modern populations using Vahaduo.