Published in 1972, this book remained in print until 1997 having been published by Evans, Unwin and then Collins.

It has photographs and drawings and maps by Brian Allen. There are the usual exercises and questions of the Knowing series. It spans the time between the end of Roman Britain and the Norman Conquest.

Twenty chapters cover the saxon Invasion and Settlement, Farming, Villages and Village life, Costume, Justice, Native and Christian Religion, Scholars, Art, the Vikings; their ships, voyages, customs and crafts; Alfred the Great, markets, money and Saxon churches.

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