Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 153. Chapters: Romani people, Irish Traveller, Bulgarians, Anglo-Irish, British people, British Chinese, British Pakistanis, British African-Caribbean community, Cornish people, British Bangladeshi, English people, Black British, Welsh people, British Indian, British Asian, Immigration to the United Kingdom since 1922, Scottish people, Languages of the United Kingdom, List of British Bangladeshis, Scottish Travellers, Anglo-Burmese people, Irish migration to Great Britain, Romanichal, United Kingdom Census 2011, Ulster Scots people, Pakistani community of London, United Kingdom Census 2001, Lists of UK locations with large ethnic minority populations, British Jews, Ethnic groups in London, Gaels, Tamil diaspora, Demography of England, East Asians in the United Kingdom, Classification of ethnicity in the United Kingdom, White British, Indian community of London, Black people in Scotland, Assyrians in the United Kingdom, Mixed, British Kurds, British Arabs, British Indo-Caribbean community, People of Northern Ireland, Other White, British Tamil, Anglo-Scot, Other Black, List of British Indians. Excerpt: The British (also known as Britons, informally Brits, or archaically Britishers) are citizens of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, any of the Channel Islands, or of any of the British overseas territories, and their descendants. British nationality law governs modern British citizenship and nationality, which are acquired, for instance, by birth in the UK or by descent from British nationals. When used in a historical context, the term British people refers to the ancient Britons, the indigenous inhabitants of Great Britain south of the Forth. Although early assertions of being British date from the Late Middle Ages, the creation of the united Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707 triggered a sense of British national identity. The notion of Britishness was forged during the Napoleonic Wars between Britain and the First French Empire, and developed further during the Victorian era. The complex history of the formation of the United Kingdom created a "particular sense of nationhood and belonging" in Britain; Britishness came to be "superimposed on to much older identities", and the English, Scottish and Welsh "remain in many ways distinct peoples in cultural terms", giving rise to resistance to British identity. Because of longstanding ethno-sectarian divisions, British identity in Northern Ireland is controversial, but it is held with strong conviction by unionists. Contemporary Britons are descended mainly from the varied ethnic stocks that settled in Great Britain before the 11th century. Prehistoric, Celtic, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, and Norse influences were blended in Britain under the Normans, Scandinavian Vikings from northern France. Conquest and union facilitated migration, cultural and linguistic exchange, and intermarriage between the peoples of England, Scotland and Wales during the Middle Ages, Early Modern period and beyond. Since the 19th century, and particularly since the mid-20th century, there has been immigration to the United Kingdom by people from I