Mailbox Monday #103

Well this week my mailbox was entirely school related - but that's not a terrible thing.  I have to start gathering my research for my paper on the historiographical issues/debate of the Norman Conquest of 1066.  I spent an intense 12 hours working on the proposal and putting together/collecting my sources this week (including a mild panic attack that this was never going to work and I would drop out of school!  I still haven't went into the online classroom to read the other student's proposals!)

I bought a Kindle a few weeks ago - primarily to save me on textbook and research material costs for this class, and it is already starting to pan out.  I was able to acquire 5 of the books I was looking for and they were all free!

Anyway, here are the great sources that I have acquired - some of which I might have read even without this project:

• Makers of History: William the Conqueror by Jacob Abbott – Kindle
• The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216) by George Burton Adams – Kindle
• The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle – Kindle
• The Bayeux Tapestry: The Battle of Hastings and the Norman Conquest by John Bruce Collingwood – Library
• The Debate on the Norman Conquest – Historiographical Issues by Marjorie Chibnall – Amazon
• The History of the Norman Conquest of England its Causes and its Results, Vol 4 by Edward Augustus Freeman – Library
• The History of England, Volume 1 by David Hume – Kindle
• A Short History of England, Ireland, and Scotland by Mary Platt Parmele – Kindle

The Chibnall book is the one that cemented my research topic for me.  A whole book on historiographical issues on the the topic I chose!  What are the chances of that?!  Anyway, there is A LOT of reading in my future and please forgive me if I am not around too often!

Did you get any awesome books this week?

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