Review:
The Celts: A Sceptical History
by Simon Jenkins From Planet 249
Miranda Aldhouse-Green
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The Celts: A Sceptical History
by Simon Jenkins
Profile, £16.99
Celts sell books! This is an ambitious, highly readable narrative in which Simon Jenkins attempts to track ‘evidence’ for the Celts, from prehistory to the present-day. Throughout the book, the reader is aware of a lurking rejection of all Celtic labelling while, at the same time, the terms ‘Celt’ and ‘Celtic’ are persistently used to describe the peoples inhabiting the ‘fringes’ around England – Scotland, Wales and Ireland – together with other communities bordering the Atlantic – the Isle of Man, Cornwall, Brittany and Galicia.
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Miranda Aldhouse-Green is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at Cardiff University. Her most recent book is Rethinking the Ancient Druids: An archaeological perspective, University of Wales Press (2021).
