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Using evidence from history and archaeology, learn through illustrated lectures that the Britons of Strathclyde had a more important role in the development of Early Mediaeval Scotland than is generally supposed. When the Romans left Britain, the Anglo-Saxons were in Germany, the Scots in Ireland and the Picts in the far north.  The inheritors of the Roman tradition were the native Britons who lived south of the Antonine Wall. Today the remnants of this British culture survive in Cornwall and Wales. These lectures challenge the view that the Britons of Strathclyde were a relatively minor offshoot of Celtic Britain.