Yale University Press · New release
How England Began
From Roman Britain to the Anglo-Saxons
Yale University Press · World History
Released April 21, 2026 · ISBN 9780300254921
About the book
Rome leaves in 410, and a century later England is a different country. Higham reads the archaeology against Gildas to explain how.
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