August 2021

As an introduction to the ‘Anglo-Saxon’ history and archaeology course I have put together (available free and online here), I’ve compiled a reading list of suggestions. It’s often hard to track down these resources even when someone name-drops them so I’ve included links to them all and, where possible, their free versions. While this reading […]

The ‘Anglo-Saxons’ inhabited what would become England following the fall of Rome, from c.410, up until the invasion of the Normans in 1066. Their lives covered some momentous social changes – the widescale (re?)adoption of Christianity, the emergence of an idea of ‘England’, invasion and occupation by the ‘Vikings’. But there’s also a lot to […]