England

Articles on life in 15th century England, as well as an annotated bibliograp hy, hosted by the Richard III Society.

The history of London, from its beginnings as a Roman city along the Thames to the Middle Ages. Includes a brief look around medieval London: its geography, walls, gates, bridges, and markets.

British History section of the BBC History website. Includes articles & content relating to the Normans, the Middle Ages, and the Tudors.

This comprehens ive report represents a landmark in the publicatio n of medieval finds from excavation s in York. It encompasse s very large assemblage s of medieval artefacts of a wide variety of materials, including iron, non-ferrou s metal, stone, jet, amber, fired clay, glass and textile. These were recovered from four major sites in York.

Domesday Book is one of our earliest surviving public records, and the foundation document of The National Archives. You can now search and download images of Domesday online.

Details the entries in the Domesday Book relating to the town of Witham, in the county of Essex, in the UK.

The history of the Celtic nations which emerged in Britain after the withdrawal of the Roman Administration in the period generally known as the ''Dark Ages.''

A collaborative database on the published sources of English medieval legal documents, with links to the growing number of online sources currently being developed. The guide has been created for the use of scholars and students of English medieval law, and it is our expectation that it will continue to grow and take off in new directions, based on the contributions of legal scholars, librarians, and information specialists throughout the world.

An attempt to glean accurate information relative to the Middle Ages by checking the accuracy of descriptions found in literature of the period. Includes information regarding travel, roads, security on the roads, various types of wayfaring peoples and religious wayfarers.

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These links connect to Western European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. They shed light on key historical happenings within the respective countries and within the broadest sense of political, economic, social and cultural history. The order of documents is chronological wherever possible. These open access sources are readily available to all -- without fees or subscriptions.

An interactiv e site with games and informatio n about archaeolog ical finds and the history of the city of Exeter.

Feudalism was a social and an economic system. It combined elements of Germanic tradition with both Roman and Church law. The basis of English feudalism was that every person's position in society was defined through a relationship with land, because land was the major source of revenue and the real source of power.

I started this in response to a situation for the Queen' s Court of the Renaissanc e Pleasure Faire in Southern California , probably about 1987. I noticed during rehearsals that new people especially were missing some of the details that had been common knowledge in the group a few years earlier. And in the course of putting some notes together, I began to see places where that common knowledge was wrong. Out of this project grew the Compendium for Common Knowledge.

Brief histories of selected towns and cities in the UK and Ireland.

Using mapping as a medium, the "Mapping the medieval urban landscape" project examined how urban landscapes were shaped in the middle ages, the project furthers an understanding of the forms and formation of medieval towns. The project focused on a group of new towns situated in Wales and England and established in the reign of King Edward I. The towns were all founded between 1277 and 1303.

The aim of the Medieval English Towns site is to provide historical information about cities and towns in England during the Middle Ages, with particular but not exclusive emphasis on medieval boroughs of East Anglia and on social, political and constitutional history. A growing selection of primary documents (translated into English) relevant to English urban history is included.

A searchable bibliography of texts -- from private letters, wills, and household accounts to literary works, philosophical treatises, chronicles, court proceedings, church records, and a host of other documents -- that were written in the Middle Ages and are now available in printed or online editions and translations. The aim is to provide annotated entries that include information on the genre, contents, archival reference and original language of the text, as well as whether the publication includes a translation, introduction, appendices, glossary, and index. Where appropriate, the bibliography also includes hyperlinks to sources that are online.

A project to develop ways of identifying and tracking over time the changing characteristics of London families and households between c. 1540 and 1710, with the object of using these data as the basis for more qualitative enquiries.

The database is now a living resource, constantly updated by our staff with several hundred new objects each day. The objects recorded by the Scheme, are known as "porta ble antiquitie s" and are found by members of the public. These objects range from the Palaeolith ic to around the 18th Century, and include items recorded in the Annual Treasure Report published by the UK's Department of Culture, Media and Sport.

The Portable Antiquitie s Scheme is a voluntary scheme to record archaeolog ical objects found by members of the public in England and Wales.

Nearly five hundred years of history in an English village, as recorded in contemporary documents. Church, estate, personal, and State records. It even has wills from as early as 1490.

This site was created to support the preparation of a substantially revised and greatly expanded edition of the Anglo Norman Dictionary. As part of the ANH project, this site makes available scholarly articles in the area of Anglo-Norman studies.

The Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies is an annual conference devoted to English and Norman medieval history and culture. It focuses primarily, but not exclusively, on the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Its purpose, as formulated by its founder R. Allen Brown in 1978, is 'to discuss and forward knowledge on all aspects of Anglo-Norman history, with particular reference to the Anglo-Norman realm, but also to be concerned with the Old English and Scandinavian contribution to the Anglo-Norman achievement in Italy, Sicily, Spain and the Crusades'.

This site maps the streets, sites, and significant boundaries of late sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century London. You will see many of the theatres and landmarks of Shakespeare's time, and learn about the history and culture of the city in which he lived and worked.

View 253 digitized Renaissance festival books that describe the magnificent festivals and ceremonies that took place in Europe between 1475 and 1700 -- marriages and funerals of royalty and nobility, coronations, stately entries into cities and other grand events.

How did the inhabitants of the island of Britain think of themselves in the five and a half centuries between 1066 and 1603? Did they see themselves as British, or as English, Scottish or Welsh? Or was a local identity more important? And what did English dominance mean for Ireland and France, which had never been part of Britain? This exhibition looks at how the governments and people of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, and of England's French territories, interacted in politics, warfare, religion, trade and everyday life. We hope it will give you insights into the events and forces that influenced ideas of identity, loyalty and nationhood.

The Trust is well known for its investigations of the deeply stratified and well-preserved urban archaeological deposits of historic York.