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An encyclopaedia of British history 1066-1500.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk
Searchable, browsable by region, database of all 13,418 records from the original 1086 survey as well as background information on the book itself and on life at the time.
www.domesdaybook.co.uk
Translation from the Latin of the first version of the Magna Carta, signed by King John at Runnymede in 1215. Links to glossary and Latin original text.
www.magnacartaplus.org
Mark Needham provides a companion to British medieval history, including timelines, maps, biographies, photographs and virtual reconstructions of abbeys, castles and other medieval buildings.
www.btinternet.com
Essays on the British Isles 1042-1330
Personal website of Donald Stark, including essays written as part of a BA in Modern History at Oxford University.
www.donaldstark.co.uk
Three essays on post-conquest England, by WF Maitland.
socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca
Comprehensive series of original articles and contemporary accounts.
www.britannia.com
View the entire tapestry in full colour in thumbnails or larger pictures and read the epic on which it is based, the Norman Conquest of England.
www.ealdormere.sca.org
Early Medieval Britain and Ireland
Explores the 'Dark Age' history of Britain, Ireland and their offshore islands between 350AD and 800AD.
www.postroman.info
A database of the assessment for taxation carried out on the orders of Pope Nicholas IV in 1291-1292. For nearly 250 years virtually all ecclesiastical taxation of England and Wales was based on this extremely thorough and detailed assessment.
www.hrionline.ac.uk
Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516
A catalogue of the markets and fairs in England and Wales between c.900 and 1516, arranged by county and alphabetically; includes several indexes.
www.history.ac.uk