Hey #Twitterstorians, what's the best one-volume history of England up to the Conquest?
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Replying to @greg_jenner
Post Roman - I'm especially interested in the pre-unification kingdoms, christianisation, etc, I suppose - but also in eg, Athelstan, Edgar, about whom I know pretty much nothing! I'd settle for two books, pre- and post-unification
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Replying to @MathewJLyons
Lots of books come to mind, but the experts are
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I like Nick Higham & Martin Ryan's The Anglo-Saxon World, https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3eXew91YDiAC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false … (which uses a couple of my maps iirc!), also Robin Fleming's Britain After Rome (https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kFQ9YgEACAAJ …) :) I also have considerable fondness for https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Anglo_Saxons.html?id=-yGW7fkkAroC&redir_esc=y … tho' it's old!
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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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