Hey #Twitterstorians, what's the best one-volume history of England up to the Conquest?
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Thank you so much Caitlin!
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I was gonna say James Campbell! Classic textbook for me back in the day
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Yes, absolutely, same! It's long in the tooth, but still very fond of it!
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Just read old TLS review of Higham & Ryan. Reviewer *very* reluctantly concedes that it probably, on balance, ought to replace Campbell et al. Says latter better written & argued
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This is definitely a common feeling, I think! But 30+ years on, it's needed and it's a solid book for getting a grounding in the period as understood in the 2010s :)
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Oh yes, something needed to be done - and they've done a very decent job all things considered! (Also note that George who reviewed it for the TLS is brilliant and lovely, but notoriously cantankerous.)
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Ha! Good to know
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Incidentally, for Wales, Cornwall, Cumbria etc and the immediate post-Roman period everywhere, I'd also recommend Thomas Charles-Edwards's wonderful Wales and the Britons (OUP 2013): https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AK_yn7Q3_x0C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false … :)
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