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The Anglo-Saxon Migrations

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From that time Britain, or the British part of it, which had been stripped of all its armed men, its military supplies, and the whole flower of its active youth … lay wholly exposed to plunderers.…1

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  • L. Alcock, Arthur’s Britain (London, 1971);

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  • M. Gelling, Signposts to the Past: Place-names and the History of England (London, 1981);

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  • J. Goody, The Domestication of the Savage Mind (Cambridge, 1977);

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  • C. Thomas, Christianity in Roman Britain to AD500 (London, 1981);

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  • D.M. Wilson, The Northern World: the History and Heritage of Northern Europe, AD400-1100 (London, 1980).

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Lesley M. Smith

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Hodges, R. (1984). The Anglo-Saxon Migrations. In: Smith, L.M. (eds) The Making of Britain. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17650-2_4

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