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[email protected] · January 23rd 16, 05:09 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article
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(Jeremy Double) wrote:

wrote:
In article

.net, (Jeremy Double) wrote:

aurora wrote:
[re local government arrangements in the London area]
So, England's historic core was being changed.

Arguably, England's historic core was Wessex and Mercia, not London.
England (as a single kingdom) was formed by the unification of the
crowns of Mercia and Wessex under Æthelstan and subsequent absorption
of other Anglo-Saxon territories...

You seem to be forgetting that England was pretty much united under
Roman occupation with London as a major city. The Anglo-Saxons were
a bunch of johnny-come-latelys.

But it was not England in Roman times, it was Britain (Britannia), and it
wasn't a kingdom, it was a Roman province. The word "English" derives
from the Angles of the Anglo-Saxons. The kingdom of England only
originated with the merger of the crowns of Wessex and Mercia.

Bunch on invading upstarts as I said, then!

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Colin Rosenstiel