Sir Frank Stenton (1880-1967) was Professor of History at Reading University from 1926 to 1946 and its Vice-Chancellor from 1946 to 1950.

• 1. The Age of Migration ; 2. The Kingdoms of the Southern English ; 3. Anglian Northumbria ; 4. The Conversion of the English People ; 5. The English Church from Theodore to Boniface ; 6. Learning and Literature in Early England ; 7. The Ascendancy of the Mercian Kings ; 8. The Age of Alfred ; 9. The Structure of Early English Society ; 10. The Conquest of Scandinavian England ; 11. The Decline of the Old English Monarchy ; 12. England and the Scandinavian World ; 13. The Tenth Century Reformation ; 14. England before the Conquest (i) The Peasants and their Lords, (ii) The Danelaw, (iii) Towns and Trade ; 15. The Last Years of the Old English State ; 16. The Norman Conquest ; 18. The Reorganization of the English Church ; Epilogue: The Anglo-Norman State ; Bibliography ; Key to Anglo-Saxon Place Names ; Index

one of the most valuable contributions ever made to our knowledge of the history of our own land.