Knowledge: anglo-saxon
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- Britannia: Anglo Saxon England
http://www.britannia.com/history/h50.html - A comprehensive series of original material and contemporary sources relating to England before the Norman conquest.
- Vortigern Studies
http://www.vortigernstudies.org.uk/ - Robert Vermaat's look at British history c.400-600 AD. Includes discussions of the evidence for Vortigern and the Wansdyke earthwork.
- Anglo-Saxons.net
http://www.anglo-saxons.net/ - Sean Miller provides an introduction, timeline, dates, lists of rulers and archbishops, maps, texts and translations, including a searchable database of charters.
- Kemble
http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/chartwww/ - The British Academy and Royal Historical Society describe their new edition of the corpus of Anglo-Saxon charters. Includes online versions of Sawyer's catalogue and Regesta Regum Anglorum.
- Anglo-Saxon England
http://members.aol.com/bakken1/angsax/angsaxe.htm - Student essays about Anglo-Saxon England by William Bakken and a thesis about the relationship of King Cnut with the English Church.
- BBC: The Anglo-Saxons
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/anglosaxons/ - Discover how the Anglo-Saxons lived with an interactive guide to 8th-century English life. A guide for schoolchildren which aims to cover KS2 QCA Scheme of Work Unit 8b: 'Anglo-Saxons case study'.
- Regia Anglorum
http://www.regia.org/ - This living history group provides articles on Anglo-Saxon times with illustrations and references. Includes a virtual village, manor and minster.
- International Society of Anglo-Saxonists
http://www.as.wvu.edu/english/isas/ - Aims to further all aspects of Anglo-Saxon Studies and holds a conference every other year.
- MaÞeliende
http://virtual.park.uga.edu/~mathelie/home.html - The online newsletter of Anglo-Saxon studies at the University of Georgia.
- Mercian History
http://www.btinternet.com/~simonmarchini/mercian.htm - Geography, ascendancy, and decline of the Kingdom of Mercia, and the Earldom as it existed under the Danelaw.
- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/Anglo/ - Complete modern English translation published by the Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL).
- Dr Sam Newton's Wuffings' Website
http://www.wuffings.co.uk/ - Explores the early medieval kingdom of East Anglia and its Wuffing dynasty as well as aspects of the literature, legend, history, and archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England.
- The Burghal Hidage
http://www.ogdoad.force9.co.uk/alfred/alfhidage.htm - Anthony Bradshaw explains this Saxon document which lists the fortified burhs of Wessex, with maps.
- The Battle of Brunanburgh AD 937
http://brunanburgh937.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/ - Argues that the battle at which King Athelstan finally defeated the Danes was fought on a site near the present Burnley in Lancashire where the River Brun has its source. Battle account, maps and photographs.
- Anglo-Saxon Studies: A Select Bibliography
http://bubl.ac.uk/docs/bibliog/biggam/ - Carole Biggam's study guide incorporates a range of topics categorised by subject and includes links to online sources.
- Ða Engliscan Gesiðas
http://www.tha-engliscan-gesithas.org.uk/ - An historical society devoted to the study of all aspects the Anglo-Saxon period. Aims, articles, Anglo-Saxon calendar and forum.
- The Life of King Alfred
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/KingAlfred/ - Biography by Asser, Bishop of Sherborne, written c.888. E-text hosted by the Online Medieval and Classical Library.
- Haskins Society
http://www.haskins.cornell.edu/ - An international scholarly organisation dedicated to the study of Viking, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and early Angevin history and the history of neighbouring areas and peoples.
- Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
http://www.pase.ac.uk/ - Searchable database of all recorded people living in early medieval England, produced by academics from several universities.
- The Electronic Sawyer
http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/chartwww/eSawyer.99/eSawyer2.html - An online version of the revised edition of Sawyer's Anglo-Saxon Charters, prepared by the British Academy / Royal Historical Society Joint Committee on Anglo-Saxon Charters.
- Beyond the Burghal Hidage: Anglo-Saxon Civil Defence in the Viking Age
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/project/beyond-burghal/ - A three-year project by the University College London Institute of Archaeology to study Anglo-Saxon military organisation and its landscape context for the period c.850-1066.
- David Roffe
http://www.roffe.co.uk/ - An historian who specializes in the study of Domesday Book. Includes online text of lectures and information on his research and publications.
- Saxon House
http://www.saxonhouse.co.uk/ - A recreation of an Anglo-Saxon house built at Market Rasen in Lincolnshire. Includes history, the story of its construction, photographs and visitor information.
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