Britain from Antiquity through 1065

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Photographs from the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.
(Mostly antiquity; photo facsimiles)

Wooden tablets recording life in Roman Britain at an outpost in Northern England.
(1st - 2nd Centuries; facsimiles with transcriptions and commentary)

Database comprising a record of individuals who lived in, or were closely connected with, Anglo-Saxon England from 597 to 1066.
(597-1066; data and descriptions)

(Late 7th or early 8th century; transcriptions)

This has been called "...the book that made Britain." (The Sunday Times, May 11, 2003)
A selection of pages by the British Library.
(715-720; facsimiles & commentary)

Taken from the Parker Chronicle
(832-900; Old English transcription)

by Asser, Bishop of Sherborne.
(888; modern English translation)

A searchable edition of the corpus of Anglo-Saxon charters.
With metadata and commentaries provided by Sean Miller.
(670-1066; transcriptions)
JISC-funded project bringing together four searchable databases of Anglo-Saxon sources.
ASChart and eSawyer: Anglo-Saxon charters (6th-11th centuries)
Langscape: Anglo-Saxon estate boundaries and related data (8th-18th centuries)
PASE: Records of inhabitants of England (6th-11th centuries)
(6th to 18th centuries; manuscripts & transcriptions)

(Old English transcription)
(Modern English translation)
(1-1154)

(Early demographics; Old English transcription & map)

Click on "Manuscripts."
(Facsimiles & transcripts)

This mourning poem "is by far the earliest work written about the Normans from the Norman point of view...."
It also serves as "an excellent laboratory in medieval philology."
(943; Latin facsimiles and variant text transcriptions with English and German translations)

Images from the illuminated tenth-century Gospel book, available to be viewed in its entirety.
(10th century; image facsimiles)

(9th to 16th centuries; facsimiles)
(Transcriptions and translations)

Includes records of religious houses, higher clergy and early urban government.
From British History Online
(11th & 12th centuries, transcriptions)

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Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA.
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