List of Books Used in Writing Hedge of Utterance and Not a Note on Some Matters with Britain
with comments on the texts not cited in the text
- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, translated by GN Garmonsway (JM Dent & Sons, 1953)
- Aneirin [NB conventional form of this poet's name — Neirin represents the likely Old Welsh version of the name (thus "Nennius" refers to Nerinus)], Y Gododdin, Middle Welsh text from The Book of Aneirin (Llyfr Aneirin), taken from William F. Skene, The Four Ancient Books of Wales, (Edmonston and Douglas, 1868), available online at < http://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/a01a.htm > on the Celtic Literature & Jones's Celtic Encyclopedia site.
- Aneirin, The Gododdin, translated by Steve Short (Llanerch Publishers, 1994)
- Bede, translated by Leo Sherley-Price, A History of the English Church and People (Penguin Books, 1955)
- Bede, translated by Faith Wallis, The Reckoning of Time (Liverpool UP, 1999)
- Bishop's Stortford and Thorley: A History and Guide < http://www.stortfordhistory.co.uk/ > — informative, considered and detailed website on local history
- P Hunter Blair, Roman Britain and Early England 55 BC–871 AD (Sphere Books, 1975) — provides some very eloquent accounts of the crucial transition period between Roman Britain and Anglo-Saxon England
- "Boudicca's Burial Discovered at Kings Cross" < http://www.sotterraneidiroma.it/notizie-sdr/item/boudiccas-burial-discovered-at-kings-cross > on Sotterranei di Roma: Centro ricerche speleo archaeologiche (dated April 2, 2014)
- edited by James Campbell, The Anglo-Saxons (Penguin Books, 1991) — much valuable and detailed information
- John B. Coe and Simon Young, The Celtic Sources for the Arthurian Legend (Llanerch Publishers, 1995) — a very useful and focused collection
- edited by Anthony Conran, The Penguin Book of Welsh Verse (Penguin Books, 19670
- Barry Cunliffe, Britain Begins (OUP, 2013) — a fine recent general survey by an expert on early (pre Norman) British history; and he's very enthusiastic indeed about Robin Fleming's Britain After Rome
- John Davies, A History of Wales (Penguin Books, 1994) — a fine, detailed and balanced history
- Daniel Defoe, The True-Born Englishman (1703) — text from The Earlier Life and the Chief Earlier Works of Daniel Defoe, edited by Henry Morley (George Routledge and Sons, 1889, cited on Luminarium Editions < http://www.luminarium.org/editions/trueborn.htm >
- Robin Fleming, Britain After Rome: The Fall and Rise 400 to 1070 (Penguin Books, 2011)
- Gildas, On the Ruin of Britain (De Excidio Britanniae), (Serenity Publishers, 2009)
- Colin Harvey, "Playing with Fire: Memory, medievalism and transmediality in Dante's Inferno the video game", BFS Journal #15 (2016)
- Henry Jenkins, "Transmedia 202: Further Reflections", on Confessions of an Aca-Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins < http://henryjenkins.org/2011/08/defining_transmedia_further_re.html >
- Jenni Kemp, Haunted Bishop's Stortford (The History Press, 2015)
- Venceslas Kruta, Celts: History and Civilization (Hachette Illustrated, 2004) — bought for its gorgeous photos of La Téne Celtic art, but with a fascinating text, concentrating on the continental Celts.
- China Miéville, Perdido Street Station (Pan Books, 2000)
- John Morris, The Age of Arthur: A History of the British Isles from 350 to 650 (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1973) — the finest fantasy of them all! A breathtaking attempt to deal with every relevant written source plus the archaeological evidence — would that it could have been thus
- The Pynson Ballad of Walsingham (1495) < http://www.walsinghamanglicanarchives.org.uk/pynsonballad.htm > on The Walsingham Archives: The Archives of the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham
- A.L.F. Rivett and Collin Smith, The Place-Names of Roman Britain (Book Club Associates, 1981) — full of serious information, including that the pronunciation of "London" indicates "that in London more than in most places towards the east of the country some Latin speech would have survived into early Anglo-Saxon times" (p 397)
- Miles Russell and Stuart Laycock, UnRoman Britain: Exposing the Great Myth of Britannia (The History Press, 2011) — an interesting account of Roman Britain's inner UKIPness, and our many premature Brexits
- Gus Russo, The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America (Bloomsbury, 2003) — the stage of "primitive accumulation of capital" laid bare, and source of my knowledge of the incomparable "Curly" Humphreys
- Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe (Penguin Books, 2012)
- Christopher A. Snyder, An Age of Tyrants: Britain and the Britons A.D. 400–600 (Sutton Publishing, 1998) — precise and detailed readings of the contemporary sources reveals much about the political and social world of the time — yes! some sense out of Gildas!
- Taliesin Poems, introduction and translation by Merion Pennar (Llanerch Enterprises, 1988)
- Gwyn Thomas, Gododdin: The Earliest British Literature (Gomer Press, 2012)
- Tom Williamson, The Origins of Hertfordshire (Hertfordshire Publications, 2010) — detailed recent research
- Michael Wood, Domesday: A Search for the Roots of England (BBC Publications, 1986) — surprisingly detailed and coherent social history
- Barbara Yorke, Nunneries and the Anglo-Saxon Royal Houses (Continuum, 2003) — in whom you will encounter St Ealdgyth of Stortford, listed by the Twelfth Century chronicler Hugh Candidus, presumably in his Historia Cœnobii Burgensis