This colourful, perceptive portrayal of English country life reverberates with the voices of the village inhabitants, from the reminiscences of survivors of the Great War evoking days gone by, to the concerns of a younger generation of farm-workers and the fascinating and personal recollections of, among others, the local schoolteacher, doctor, blacksmith, saddler, district nurse and magistrate. .

An account of the discoveries at Sutton Hoo, including the most recent excavations, and the light they shed on the world of the Anglo-Saxons. Carver draws on the range of research undertaken at the site to present a story of search and discovery alongside the story of the site itself and the information that the finds have revealed.

This revised edition includes two new chapters; Europe and the Wider World and The Revolutionary Crisis . It offers a wide-ranging thematic account of the century, that explores social, cultural and economic topics, as well as giving a clear analysis of the political events.

The summer of 1939 saw the archaeological find of an undisturbed Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo. This book details its excavation, and describes and illustrates its contents. The results of many years' research at the British Museum are summarized.

Running from about AD 400 to the 1100s, this book shows the Anglo-Saxons as formative in the history of England and Europe. The society, inspired by the world of the Old English poem Beowulf , saw England become the first European country to conduct its affairs in its own language, and Bede and Boniface of Wessex establish the dating convention.