Medieval History

A Search for the Roots of England, very numerous illustrations in colour and b&w from photographs, paintings, reproductions of manuscripts and contemporary maps, excavation plans, artefacts and mosaics, maps, glossary, bibliography, index, 224 pp, brown boards in d/w, top edge of d/w a little creased, otherwise in very good condition, BBC Publications 1986

24.5 x 18.4 cm, 790g, ISBN 0 56320 500 8

See the description below from the dustwrapper flap.

The book was reissued in 2005 under the name ‘The Domesday Quest: In Search of the Roots of England’. However, although the text and the colour photographic illustrations remain the same, the later book lacks all the 1986 original’s maps and b&w illustrations.