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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Replying to @caitlinrgreen @DrLRoach and
(The review by James Campbell of John Morris's tome, for any who are interested :) https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uL_Y7Cw9QcUC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA121#v=onepage&q&f=false …)
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Can't see it all on Google Books, but what a glorious review! Loved this, in particular: "He uses to excess the ancient historian's black arts for making objects resembling bricks with odd stalks of what may or may not be straw."
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It's one of my all-time favourite reviews! :) Whilst most people pulled Morris's book to shreds, he both attacks where justified but also points out that there are some sparkling ideas hidden in there which might be of interest to the wary!
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