Stenton was a professor of history at Reading University (1926–1946) and subsequently the university's vice-chancellor (1946–1950). He was the author of Anglo-Saxon England, a volume of the Oxford History of England, first published in 1943 and widely considered a classic history of the period.
His wife, Doris Mary Stenton, wrote a preface to the third edition of Anglo-Saxon England, published after his death. She was a historian in her own right, producing English Society in the Early Middle Ages for the Pelican History of England.
This was particularly attractive as it would lay the foundations for the establishment of an "English" monarchy.
The twentieth-century historian FrankStenton says of the Anglo-Saxon chronicler that 'his inaccuracy is more than compensated by his preservation of the English title applied to these outstanding kings.'
He goes on to argue that the term Bretwalda 'falls into line with the other evidence which points to the Germanic origin of the earliest English institutions'.
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