Back to Owlbut's History of England

This period of history follows on from our video "The Ice Age Comes To An End", which is in the previous time period page. Once the ice had melted the people who had moved south started to come back to the area that is now Great Britain. It wasn't difficult as we were still joined to Europe. We can’t be too sure of accurate dates in this period because nobody could write and so they left no written record. Much of it is guess work, added to any evidence that can found under the ground. Check out our short introductory video on the right.

In 8,000BC, the estimated population of England (to the nearest thousand) was 3,000 people.