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Queercommie Girl
11th April 2011, 15:44
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0108tsq

Interesting documentary series.

Rooster
11th April 2011, 16:09
I'm not in the UK right now but that guy usually does some decent programmes. There's a couple of good books you can get on the topic as well but I can't really remember them off the top of my head. I think it's called Celts but I have no idea who the author is. It goes through the early history of European Celts then it goes into more detail about life in the British Isles and goes into greater detail about the language and makes comparisons to sanskrit. Another good book to get on the subject is, let me try to remember, a Genetic History of the British Isles by, I think, Oppenheimer. As you can guess, it goes into the genetics a lot but it also discusses language and actually opens up with eenie meenie minie mo which he says is a throw back to the celtic counting system. It's a really good read actually.