Dawkin’s’s Early Man in Britain. 
Wright’s The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon. 
Elton’s Origins of English History. 
Rhys’s Celtic Britain. 
Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Chronicle (legendary). 
Geike’s Influence of Geology on English History, in
        Macmillan’s Magazine, 1882.

II.  The Roman Period, 55, 54 B.C.; A.D. 43-410

Caesar’s Commentaries on the Gallic War
        (Books IV and V, chiefly 55, 54 B.C.)
Tacitus’ Agricola and Annals (chiefly from 78-84). Gildas’ History of Britain (whole period). Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of Britain (whole period).  Wright’s The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon.  Elton’s Origins of English History.  Pearson’s England during the Early and Middle Ages.  Scarth’s Roman Britain.[1]

[1] The best short history.

III.  The Saxon or Early English Period, 449-1066

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (whole period). Gildas’ History of Britain (Roman Conquest to 560). Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of Britain (earliest times to 731). Nennius’ History of Britain (earliest times to 642). Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Chronicle (legendary) (earliest times to 689). Asser’s Life of Alfred the Great.  Elton’s Origins of English History.  Pauli’s Life of Alfred.  Green’s Making of England.  Green’s Conquest of England.  Freeman’s Norman Conquest, Vols.  I-II.  Pearson’s History of England during the Early and Middle Ages.  Freeman’s Origin of the English Nation.  Stubbs’s Constitutional History of England.  Taine’s History of English Literature.  Church’s Beginning of the Middle Ages.  Armitage’s Childhood of the English Nation.[2] Freeman’s Early English History.[2]

[2] The two best short histories.

IV.  The Norman Period 1066-1154

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Peterborough continuation) (whole period) Ordericus Vitalis’ Ecclesiastical History (to 1141). Wace’s Roman de Rou (Taylor’s translation) (to 1106). Bruce’s Bayeux Tapestry Elucidated (with plates). William of Malmesbury’s Chronicle (to 1142). Roger of Hoveden’s Chronicle (whole period).  Freeman’s Norman Conquest.  Church’s Life of Anselm.  Taine’s History of English Literature.  Stubbs’s Constitutional History of England.  Freeman’s Short History of the Norman Conquest.[3] Armitage’s Childhood of the English Nation.[3] Johnson’s Normans in Europe.[3] Creighton’s England a Continental Power.[3]

[3] The four best short histories.

V. The Angevin Period, 1154-1399

Matthew Paris’s Chronicle (1067-1253).
Richard of Devizes’s Chronicle (1189-1192).
Froissart’s Chronicles (1325-1400).
Jocelin of Brakelonde’s Chronicle (1173-1102) (see Carlyle’s Past and
        Present, Book II). 
Norgate’s Angevin Kings. 
Taine’s History of English Literature. 
Anstey’s William of Wykeham. 
Pearson’s England in the Early and Middle Ages. 
Maurice’s Stephen Langton.