Does the U.K. recognize the Kingdom of Elmet and East Anglia?

Post-Roman Britain. The Ancient Kingdom of Elmet. Reproduced from The Barwicker No.39 by Tony Cox Additional comments made by Richard Watson, ... read more

Elmet existed around the late 6th/early 7th Centuries, when “England” as we know it today was still forming, and barely gets a mention in history, so it was clearly never a very successful kingdom. Indigenous people would have been Celts still there after the end of the Roman occupation, and related to today's Welsh, Scots etc. read more

I n the North, specific groups were found in the North East, tallying with the area of Bernicia which was colonised by the Angles from Southern Denmark. And, intriguingly, a small genetic cluster was spotted in the West Riding of Yorkshire, which coincides with the former small kingdom of Elmet, one of the last strongholds of the ancient Britons. read more