![]() This is tied in with the decision to build Hadrian’s Wall so extracts can be used as source material. ![]() He refers, for example, to the problems that Northern England had with invaders such as the Picts and Scots. Though Bede himself was not a contemporary writer, his is one of the first English written accounts of the period that is written in-depth. The book is interesting for Primary School teachers as it provides a history of Roman Occupation. Augustine undertook and the conversion to Christianity of many Anglo-Saxons at that time. He makes use of earlier sources, which he acknowledges, to describe the Roman occupation. The primary focus of the work is the history of the conversion of the English from Paganism to Christianity.īede starts his History of England with the invasion of Britain by Julius Caesar in 55BC. Bede wrote his History of England in the 8th century, it was completed in 731AD. As a relatively newly formed nation, it was searching for its identity and tackling the challenges of invasion and internal politics. Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of England was one of the first major histories of the English. ![]()
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