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@IanF
Not way off at all. You should probably aim to spend as much/more on the lens, so about £70-90 on the camera and the same again on a 50mm or 35mm lens depending on what sort of photography you’re into.
Hard to argue with a Canon AE1. Basically, all you’re looking for is a camera that can take decent lenses and lets you explore manual settings but with some automatic settings as a fallback (the Canon has shutter-priority auto mode). The Nikon equivalent is the FE2 (which has aperture priority). Both as good as each other.
Personally, I use the Minolta X-700, but then I bought it new in 1982 🥴. Also has fully-auto Program mode, which I rarely use. I do sometimes use manual but 90% of the time it’s in aperture-priority mode.
For a more expensive and iconic camera, you might try Olympus OM2 (which has manual plus aperture priority). Lovely lenses though.
Ian