The Diasporas Projects

The Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain programme was driven by eight linked projects incorporating some of the latest research in archaeology, genetics, history, linguistics, social psychology, and place-name studies.

The projects

• Surnames and the Y chromosome
• Modelling Migration
• Genetics and early British population history
• Immigration and indigenism in popular historical discourses
• Dialect in Diaspora: Linguistic variation in early Anglo-Saxon England
• Dialect in Diaspora: People and Places (PhD)
• Home and away in early England

Researchers

• Dr Morn Capper
• Dr Martin Findell
• Dr Turi King
• Dr Rita Rasteiro
• Ms Eleanor Rye (PhD project)
• Dr Marc Scully
• Dr Pragya Vohra
• Dr Jon Wetton