English people
April 16, 2009
The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England who speak English. The English identity as a people is of early medieval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn.
The largest single English population reside in England, a constituent country of the United Kingdom. They are often believed to be a mixture of several closely related groups that have settled in what became England, such as the Angles, Saxons, Norse Vikings and Normans.
This group forms the largest part of the racially-based classification used in the 2001 UK census known as White British. More recent migrations to England include peoples from a variety of different regions of Great Britain and Ireland and many other countries, mostly from Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and Commonwealth countries. Some of these more recent migrants and their descendants have assumed a solely British or English identity, while others have developed dual or hyphenated identities.However, they would normally identify themselves on the census as White Other or Asian British or Black British.
