Early Scotland: The Picts, the Scots and the Welsh of Southern Scotland

In his time, Hector Munro Chadwick was the preeminent scholar on British culture. This book was actually published by his wife two years after he died, in 1949. It is therefore his most developed work. As a graduate student, I worked through this book and appreciated its readability. Professor Chadwick was also not afraid to be wrong, and was therefore able to make some theories that were far from apparent to his contemporaries. Particularly in this work, his ideas about the nature of Vortigern were not taken from mainstream thinking. They were so independent that I found myself pondering if he might be right. My work on the relative chronology of Britain stems from him. For that I am grateful.

An interesting study which has stood the test of time. I could have wished for more on the "Welsh" population.