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So, here we are today, in the northern areas of the island that was named “Albion” in Roman times, and later “Britannia” after the Britons who had settled here before, and during, the Iron Age. We live in a cool, sometimes cold and wet, outlier to continental Europe, where warmth has often meant family, fireside, songs and stories. It is natural that we now prefer to downplay our recent history of kings, nation states and empire and seek instead to revive the stunning beauty that used to surround us all. It is in celebration of our rich cultural heritage, enlivened by millennia of “immigration”, that we trace our way back to those early settlers who named their wild new home “Priten”.