Foundation: A History of England

If you are looking for background ideas for a campaign or an adventure, the book "Foundation" by Peter Ackroyd might be what your looking for. A real-life history of the country that is the source of such legends as King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and Robin Hood and his Merry Men as well as locations like Stonehenge and Sherwood Forest, this book starts 900,000 years ago and ends at the age of the Tudors in the 1500s. Saxons, Celts, and Romans are described with King Arthur placed as a possible warlord in 490 A.D. and the Black Death in 1348 A.D. Most of the book is after 1000 A.D. Some of it is dry reading, but so is my Family Tree. It's not written to be an action movie.