Recommended Reading 'The Origins of the British' by Stephen Oppenheimer 1st ed 2006 ISBN 978-1-84529-482-3 Widely acclaimed modern account of the genetic descent of British people drawing on extensive DNA analysis. Oppenheimer puts forward the theory that the majority of modern day Englishmen are not, as had been previously thought, descended from the Angles, Saxons and Jutes but are descendants of south-western Europeans who arrived in Britain long before the first farmers. Links European Haplogroup Introduction Haplogroup R Tree Haplogroup R1b Info Haplogroup I Tree Haplogroup I Info