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The history of the Celts is the history of a misnomer.

There has never been a distinct people, race or tribe claiming the name of Celtic, though remnants of different languages and cultures remain throughout Wales, Ireland, Scotland and Cornwall. The word keltoi first appears in Greek as applied generally to aliens or 'barbarians'—and theories of Celticism continue to fuel many of the prejudices and misconceptions that divide the peoples of the British Isles to this day.

Often seen as unimportant or irrelevant adjuncts to English history, in The Celts Simon Jenkins offers a compelling counterargument. This is a fascinating and timely debate on who the Celts really were—or weren't—and what their legacy should be in an increasingly dis-United Kingdom.

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8 hours and 28 minutes
Author

Simon Jenkins
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Simon Jenkins
Audible release date

30 Jun. 2022
Language

English
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Profile Audio
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B0B46PYDHJ
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	8 hours and 28 minutes
Author	Simon Jenkins
Narrator	Simon Jenkins
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.co.uk Release Date	30 June 2022
Publisher	Profile Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B0B46PYDHJ
Best Sellers Rank	6,013 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 49 in Sociology (Audible Books & Originals) 51 in History of Western Europe 110 in European History (Audible Books & Originals)

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JD, London

Bad book by a once-good writer out of his depth

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 July 2022

If you want mis-spelled Welsh and Irish by an author and a publisher who couldn't be bothered to check them, factual errors, historical blind-spots, bizarre anglo-supremacist value judgments about cultures and ('impenetrable') languages, and an overall tone of superiority about a subject outside an author's ken, this is the book for you.

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Name P.

Just, no!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 July 2022

Already, day one, this dreck has been ripped apart by scholars as uninformed, ignorant, and maybe even bigoted.
To quote Simon Rodway's review as an example, "This is not just a bad book, it’s a nasty one." and "Overall, this is like reading an essay by a clever, ambitious but lazy and contrarian undergraduate, with far too high a regard for his own cleverness."
"As it shows evidence of independent reading, and a reasonable grasp of the outline of parts of the argument, I’d be prepared, despite its manifest failings, to give it a mark in the 40s. It should certainly never have been published."

Do not waste your money just to become less informed for the sake of this man's own political agenda, personal biases, manipulations, and bigotry. He can't even be bothered to spell words correctly in languages he then goes on to disparage as impenetrable, like some English imperialist from the 1800s.
Just... no!

18 people found this helpful

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Tom

Gives hope that anyone can get a book published. No stars if it were possible

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 July 2022

Simply put, this is the worst book I have ever read. Lazy, bigoted views on the Celtic nations and their languages that predate English by over a thousand years. Clearly written by someone who shows contempt for the Welsh, Scottish and Irish of the land. Somehow this book got published. This gives hopes to millions of other terrible, Ill informed writers that they can get a book into print. Awful, awful book.

14 people found this helpful

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Elo

Absolute rubbish

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 July 2022

Lacks basic research and is full of inaccuracies.

14 people found this helpful

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Elgan

Disapointing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 July 2022

It reads like it should be written in crayon.

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Fletcher Christian

Wilfully perverse, shamelessly bigoted, inaccurate bilge

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 July 2022

This is a book written to stroke the tumescent prejudices of every English Nationalist, Faragiste and Boris worshipper. The book contains a very respectable bibliography which is more than sufficient to demolish everything Simon has written on earlier pages. A cynical catch-penny travesty.

10 people found this helpful

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I.R Evans

A NO star product!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 July 2022

If there were an option for no stars I would have given this book not a single star. Please don't waste your money.

11 people found this helpful

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d.j.lewis

About time

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 July 2022

I can understand why there are so many negative reviews as this book cleverly, amusingly and devastatingly deconstructs the doubtful theories and myths that have been touted as facts to support nationalist sentimentalists.
Whether you agree or disagree with Mr. Jenkins argument, i recommend you give it a try. Great fun.
The same argument, that the celts are are 16c invention was made in more detail, but less wit, in John Collis’ excellent book in 2003

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