Human geography: the British population

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Résumé

Immigration to the UK up to 1945:
- archaeological evidence of a long-settled land: oldest human bones are 5hundred thousand year-old;
- megalithic people, Stonehenge. Used to live all over Europe, monuments of standing stones: as Stonehenge (South of the England);
- Celts, 8th century BC (before Christ), were Barbarians tribes from Europe to Britain;
- Romans from 43-410 AD (Anno Domini, meaning after Christ), very few monuments remain from the Roman presence: Londinium, Chester, Lancaster or Gloucester, castrum (a military camp), Hadrian's Wall (built by the roman in the North of England as a protection against the Picts : Barbarian people, the Picts). The ending –ester means that there is a castrum in the city.

Contents:

I) A multicultural population

A. Various waves of immigration
1. Immigration to the UK up to 1945
2. Immigration from the UK from 1945 on

B. Britishness
1. Four nations: English, Welsh, Scots, Ulster Irish
2. Multiculturalism

II) Population distribution and movements

A. Towns and Cities
1. The growth of Towns and Cities
2. Urban problems and government policies
3. Housing and class

B. The Countryside
1. Population movements to the countryside
2. Attitude toward the British Countryside

C. North/South divide

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