Following a re-assessment of the movie The Dig (2021) by Australian academic Louise D’Arcens, a professor of English at Macquarie University in Australia, the BAFTAs will not consider the movie for an award due to its "problematic" message.
This will come as disappointing news to the leads, Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes who thought they were in an archaeology drama not a white supremacist and anti-Brexit manifesto.
Ms D'Arcens is clearly not an historian since she makes the schoolboy error of identifying the Anglo-Saxons as 'migrants' when they were in fact invaders. The Anglo-Saxons did not 'settle' in England but took land by force and killed the indigenous people while doing it. Much like all invaders have done around the world both before and since - including the Vikings and the Normans who applied the same force and appropriation to the Anglo-Saxons a few centuries later.
Contrary to some popular current opinions, the UK never was a land of "immigrants" or "migrants" before say the post-WW2 period of only some 75 years: It was a land descended from invaders.
Our ancestors were largely the result of four waves of invasion: Roman, Saxon, Viking and Norman. Invaders are not migrants and in all three cases there was little attempt to "integrate" with the indigenous population but rather to replace them in terms of the power structures, which all three sets of invaders largely accomplished. Try telling the Irish, Scots and Welsh that the English in their countries were "migrants".
Bill "Battler" Heslop commented:
Trust a bloody Australian professor to get her history wrong. It's a bit like saying that Australia is a land of migrants. Try telling that bollocks to the Abos!