No, go to the library or a bookshop.
I'm an IT bod but I reckon I could give you a reading list that would warm a historian's heart. Let's start with "The King in the North" by Max Adams.
I'm an IT bod but I reckon I could give you a reading list that would warm a historian's heart. Let's start with "The King in the North" by Max Adams.
Modern writers (ie not Geoff of Monmouth, Sir W Scott, int al) generally spend quite a while putting out their stall with quite a lot of reasoning, rather than "just so" style commentary. If they don't then I bin the book.
I'm not a history nerd, but his Norman Conquest book [2] almost turned me. It's more fun than most novels.
For a non-academic approach, written by a academic, I wouldn't look anywhere else. And while you're waiting, read Norman Conquest. It's brilliant.
[0] https://twitter.com/longshanks1307 [1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52025940-the-anglo-saxon... [2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13065400-the-norman-conq...