“It was a pleasure to be asked to review this book. It is rare that one has the opportunity to read a county-based study focused on the problems of the British Dark Ages which is both so fully engaged with up-to-date scholarship and operating assuredly across all relevant disciplines – history, archaeology and place-name studies, plus occasionally historical genetics and palaeoecology. Not only does it offer a sophisticated study of Dark-Age Lincolnshire but it also makes an important contribution to wider debates about the ending of Roman Britain and the beginnings of Anglo-Saxon England...
“This inter-disciplinary exploration of *Lindēs offers a new standard for regional work. It also provides a model capable of explaining how Roman Britain transmuted into Anglo-Saxon England, emphasising continuities in local and regional structures as well as population, alongside significant immigration... this book makes an important contribution to the central historical debates and will provide an important point of reference as to how we model the British/Anglo-Saxon interface for the next generation.”
(Nicholas Higham, Professor of Early Medieval and Landscape History, University of Manchester – read full review)

“Britons and Anglo-Saxons is an impressively interdisciplinary book that combines linguistic, historical, literary, and archaeological evidence into a coherent narrative for the post-Roman fate of Lincolnshire... [the] central contention that “the Britons based at Lincoln in the fifth and sixth centuries left a political, administrative, cultural, and even potentially a symbolic, legacy for succeeding centuries” (153) is amply borne out by [the] thorough interdisciplinary methodology, and [Green's] findings are sure to have an impact on the wider historiography of early-medieval British history... a major accomplishment by a promising young scholar...”
(Speculum: the Journal of the Medieval Academy of America)

“[A] well-researched and stimulating book... Green makes a compelling case for a post-Roman British-speaking people and polity based on Lincoln, from which an Anglo-Saxon kingdom developed.”
(History: the Journal of the Historical Association)

“This book, based on the author’s doctoral thesis, explores the relationships between British and Anglo-Saxon populations in post-Roman Britain and the formation of kingdoms, using Lincolnshire as a case study... As an exploration of the aftermath of Roman Britain, the relationships between native populations and immigrant communities, and the mechanisms behind the development of subsequent administrative units, this book makes for a very thought-provoking read... It is a welcome addition to our understanding of the early centuries of post-Roman Britain.”
(Medieval Archaeology)

“This book should recommend itself to the introductory reading lists of history and archaeology students but will also serve the general reader well. Green clearly sets out the undoubted importance of an interdisciplinary approach to the study of this period, while at the same time recognizing the limitations inherent in some of these methodologies. This study draws upon the combined application of history, archaeology, place-names, and early literature to reconstruct its narrative — approaches that one would wish to see duplicated across the country... This book not only provides a narrative for Lincolnshire but also reinforces the potential value of similar approaches elsewhere in Britain while at the same time offering a compelling introduction to the challenges of studying this period of Britain’s past.”
(Midland History)

“...a lively and convincing account of a neglected British kingdom, admirably multidisciplinary in approach and alive to questions of wider interest, such as Anglo-Saxon kingdom formation and the survival of Roman society after AD 410. It makes for a good story, engagingly told.”
(The Archaeological Journal)