Lots of books come to mind, but the experts are @DrLRoach & @caitlinrgreen - they’ll see you right
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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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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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Yes, I think the feeling is that Higham and Ryan is an improvement, but not nearly what Campbell et. al. was in 1980 (or in other words, it may date swiftly); Fleming is excellent on social history and archaeology, but consciously eschews a political narrative.
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Replying to @DrLRoach @MathewJLyons and
Other books worth considering are Halsall's Worlds of Arthur (accessible, but early in focus), Kirby's Earliest English Kings (dense, but good on early politics) and Stafford's Unification and Conquest (best single narrative of the politics of the later period).
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Definitely agree on Kirby and Stafford, and Barbara Yorke is good for the 'heptarchy', no? (Though would you really recommend Halsall?! I love aspects of it, but other bits... it feels a bit John Morris as reviewed by James Campbell to me, if you know what I mean?)
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Which of Yorke's would you recommend? Conversion of Britain sounds v interesting.
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I suspect Caitlin had 'Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England' in mind, which is her classic.
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Her books are generally excellent, but I was indeed thinking of Kings and Kingdoms, which gives a narrative & discussion of each kingdom in turn :) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kings-Kingdoms-Early-Anglo-Saxon-England/dp/041516639X …
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Ah, that sounds amazing! (Actually, quite a few of her books have titles that are saying, Read Me, quite loudly.)
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