Alan Macfarlane

But it's just factually correct.

Even if you want to go back to the work of Alan MacFarlane just saying, okay, the prohibition on cousin marriage by the first Archbishop of Canterbury, and even though Henry VIII de facto overturned it, it wasn't popular except among the upper echelons of the royalty and society.

shaped up our small family farm holdings, our markets, our manners, our morals.

So the church basically created the ethnic groups of the British Isles in the way that they exist today.