Ecclesiastical History of the English People

The Venerable Bede

Edited by J. A. Giles & Gerrish Gray

Tiger of the Stripe is proud to present a beautiful new hardback edition of Bede's great classic of English (and British) history, the Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum.

Bede (c. AD 672–735) was the first historian of the English people and, by the standards of his day, made careful use of documentary sources and first-hand accounts. It was finished in about AD 731.

His opening description of Britain drew on Pliny, Solinus, Orosius and Gildas, and much of his account of the Roman occupation relied on Orosius, Eutropius, and Gildas. However, for the rest of his History, he made use of English diocesan and monastic records and the copious correspondence held in the Vatican archives.