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Monarchy: Volume I – The early kings by David Starkey (Chatto & Windus, 2004)
An in-depth examination of what the English monarchy has meant in terms of the laws, land and people of England. This is a history of ideas and ideals, as well as of colourful characters. Among the monarchs featured are: Alfred the Great, Cnut, Edward the Confessor, William the Conqueror, Henry II, Richard Lionheart, Henry III.
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The Angevin Empire by John Gillingham (Hodder Arnold, 2000)
Updated edition of a medieval history that offers answers to questions about the Angevin empire, how it came about and why it eventually fell.
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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle edited by Dorothy Whitelock (Greenwood Press, 1986)
The most important written work in English before the Norman Conquest.
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The Anglo-Saxons edited by James Campbell (Penguin, 1991)
Introductory political history of Anglo-Saxon England pieced together from such original sources as chronicles, charters and manuscripts. Covers all Anglo-Saxon kings and queens.
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A Biographical Dictionary of Dark Age Britain: England, Scotland and Wales, 500-1050 by Ann Williams, Alfred Smyth and David Kirby (Routledge, 1991)
Concise biographies of disparate historical figures, supplemented by chronological and genealogical tables.
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The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England edited by Michael Lapidge (Blackwell, 2000)
Illustrated reference work covering the history, archaeology, arts, architecture, literatures and languages of England from the Roman withdrawal to the Norman Conquest c. AD 450 -1066.
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A Brief History of the Hundred Years War: The English in France, 1337-1453 by Desmond Seward (Constable & Robinson, 2003)
Detailed account tracing the events that led to France's final victory. Aims to bring to life the last chivalric combats as they gave way to a more brutal modern warfare.
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Double Agents: Women and clerical culture in Anglo-Saxon England by Clare A Lees and Gillian R Overing (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001)
This book is concerned with formation of the cultural record itself, and with women's relation to its processes of presentation and production.
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The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, edited by Judith McClure and Roger Collins (Oxford Paperbacks, 1999)
Completed in 731, this work by Bede is the primary source for understanding the beginnings of the English people and the coming of Christianity.
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England under the Norman and Angevin Kings, 1075-1225 by Robert Bartlett (Oxford University Press, 1999)
An account of the politics, religion and culture of England in the 150 years following the Norman Conquest.
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The Feudal Kingdom of England, 1042-1216 by Frank Barlow (Longman, 1999)
An updated edition of a classic survey of Anglo-Norman England, from the eve of the Norman Conquest through to the aftermath of Magna Carta.
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A History of Britain: At the edge of the world? 3000 BC-AD 1603 by Simon Schama (BBC Consumer Publishing, 2000)
Schama traces the history of Britain in his distinctive narrative style.
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Lancastrians to Tudors: England 1450-1509 by Andrew Pickering (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
Analysis of the historical debates surrounding the characters and events of the period.
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Medieval Women: A social history of women in England 450-1500 by Henrietta Leyser (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002)
Celebrates the diversity and vitality of English women's lives in the Middle Ages.
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The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History by Colin McEvedy (Penguin, 1961)
Respected overview of the era, with political maps every 40 years or so and a concise narrative to accompany each one.
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The Normans and the Norman Conquest by R Allen Brown (Boydell, 2000)
An historical study that traces the forces and influences that shaped both England and Normandy in the decades before 1066.
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The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England, edited by Nigel Saul (Oxford University Press, 2000)
Colour plates of medieval art illustrate this reliable account of the period.
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The Saxon and Norman Kings by Christopher Brooke (Blackwell, 2001)
Updated version of a classic exploration of the history of English kings and kingship from the 6th to the 12th century.
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Viking Age England by Julian D Richards (Tempus, 2004)
This book examines the results from major excavations in the countryside and in towns such as London, Lincoln and York and reassesses the Viking contribution to the history of late Anglo-Saxon England and the creation of a new mixed Anglo-Scandinavian identity.
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The Wars of the Roses by J R Lander (St Martin's Press, 2004)
This account sets out to challenge the view that the Wars of the Roses were the bloody, turbulent period depicted by Shakespeare.
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