What are your suggestions for a book / YT channel that helps me understand the history of ( England, Saxons, Angles, Vikings, Northmen, Germains… )?

by doubleajent

Thanks to the Vikings show then The Last Kingdom who made me curious about this lexical field,

for those who didn’t get exactly what im looking for : the history of the English + Scandinavian area FROM The Germains TO few years after vikings fall.

BRIStoneman

I'd suggest:

Oosthuizen's The Emergence of the English

Higham's The Anglo-Saxon World

Stenton's The Anglo-Saxons (it's an older work but still holds up pretty well as a detailed 101)

Lavelle's The Danes in Wessex and Alfred's Wars

Baker, Brookes and Reynolds' Landscapes of Defence in Early Medieval Europe

Baker and Brookes' Beyond the Burghal Hidage