This is the first complete edition of Henry of Huntingdon's Historia Anglorum (The History of the English People), covering the period between 55 BC and 1154 AD. Henry was an eyewitness of events under Henry I (1100-35) and Stephen (1135-54), and was also one of the finest Anglo-Latin poets. a massive edition and translation of Henry, Archdeacon of Huntingdon ... a fascinatingly readable text by the most engaging of the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman historians.