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Tom discusses Bede's written account of St. Cuthbert's life, noting that Bede 'specifies in his opening to it that he has researched it, that he's spoken to people who knew Cuthbert' - this is a hagiographical text about the saint

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Tom mentions that 'Bede writes the first great history of what you might call the English people' in the context of discussing sources about St. Cuthbert

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Dominic mentions reading about King Guthred 'in Bernard Cornwell' and Tom responds that 'Bernard Cornwell writes about it in a sceptical way' - referring to Cornwell's historical fiction series (likely the Saxon Stories/Last Kingdom series) which covers this period of Anglo-Saxon history