History

England

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• The Magna Carta can be seen at the British Library.

• The Victoria History of the Counties of England is a series of books giving good information about county history.

• Several of the PRO's Records Information Leaflets give some useful background to historical resources, including The Domesday Book, The Jacobite Risings, 1715 and 1745 and English Local History. A Note for Beginners. The National Archives website also includes some fascinating historical resouces in their Learning Curve pages.

• The Battle of Stamford Bridge the battle which ended the Viking era of English history.

• The Rural History Centre, a national centre for the study of development in agriculture, the countryside and food.

• Brigitte Gastel Lloyd provides some historic and genealogical information about English royal and noble families.

• Regia Anglorum - Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Norman and British Living History. A re-enactment society which attempts to recreate a cross section of English life around the turn of the first millennium.

• Some Notes on Medieval English Genealogy provided by Chris Phillips.

• Medieval Source Material on the Internet by Chris Phillips.

• Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516 compiled by Dr. Samantha Letters.

• The Land and Freedom pages - another view of English Civil War History from Tony Gosling.

• The Village Labourer 1760-1832: A Study in the Government of England before the Reform Bill by J.L. and Barbara Hammond.

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