British history to 1100 and B Guide - Resources and Review

Documents the history of the Domesday book, commissioned in December 1085 by William the Conqueror. Offers a timeline describing life in the 11th century, as well as listing every settlement existing in 1086, providing notes on landowners of the time, and considering the aristocracy, castles, churches, tax, rents, and agriculture which existed.
 
Topics covered include old English language and literature, Anglo
Latin and Latin ecclesiastical texts, palaeography, diplomatic, illumination, history, numismatics, onomastics, archaeology, fiction, and children's books.
 
Collection predominantly concerned with English history, though some Welsh, Irish and Scottish links are also included. Covers Anglicanism, Anglo
Saxon Britain, castles, cathedrals, Celtic, Roman and Prehistoric Britain, Henry VIII, King Arthur, mythology, royalty and parliament, Victorian Britain and John Wesley among other subjects.
 
Corpus of royal diplomas, wills of prominent churchmen, and records of land grants in Latin and the vernacular. Provides reference works, information on Anglo
Saxon bishops and abbots, and a list of charters organised by archive.
 
Including texts, images, bibliographies and information on Arthurian Britain and Arthurian characters.
 
Angelcynn (pronounced 'Angle
kin') is an Old English word meaning 'the English People'. This Angelcynn is a living history society which aims to recreate, as authentically as possible, the richness of the birth of a nation which has passed into legend and into lore. Includes details of Anglo-Saxon weapons and armour, including an Anglo-Saxon helmet and other items found in a grave in Northamptonshire.
 
Information about a national society which recreates a cross section of English life around the turn of the first millennium. Include articles on domestic life, battles, people, and places.
 
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