Welcome to our British Directory.
This page provides a structured index of UK-focused websites, organised by topic to help you discover established online resources. The listings are based on historic human-edited directory data and have been preserved to highlight long-standing sites across the British web.
Many shorter-lived sites have disappeared over time, leaving a core set of more established and durable resources. While some entries may no longer be active, this directory continues to offer a useful overview of trusted UK websites within this category.
- Carole Biggam's study guide incorporates a range of topics categorised by subject and includes links to online sources.
- Sean Miller provides an introduction, timeline, dates, lists of rulers and archbishops, maps, texts and translations, including a searchable database of charters.
- Discover how the Anglo-Saxons lived with an interactive guide to 8th-century English life. A guide for schoolchildren which aims to cover KS2 QCA Scheme of Work Unit 8b: 'Anglo-Saxons case study'.
- A three-year project by the University College London Institute of Archaeology to study Anglo-Saxon military organisation and its landscape context for the period c.850-1066.
- A series of original material and contemporary sources relating to England before the Norman conquest.
- An historian who specializes in the study of Domesday Book. Includes online text of lectures and information on his research and publications.
- Explores the early medieval kingdom of East Anglia and its Wuffing dynasty as well as aspects of the literature, legend, history, and archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England.
- An international scholarly organisation dedicated to the study of Viking, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and early Angevin history and the history of neighbouring areas and peoples.
- Aims to further all aspects of Anglo-Saxon Studies and holds a conference every other year.
- The British Academy and Royal Historical Society describe their new edition of the corpus of Anglo-Saxon charters. Includes online versions of Sawyer's catalogue and Regesta Regum Anglorum.
- The online newsletter of Anglo-Saxon studies at the University of Georgia.
- Geography, ascendancy, and decline of the Kingdom of Mercia, and the Earldom as it existed under the Danelaw.
- Searchable database of all recorded people living in early medieval England, produced by academics from several universities.
- This living history group provides articles on Anglo-Saxon times with illustrations and references. Includes a virtual village, manor and minster.
- A recreation of an Anglo-Saxon house built at Market Rasen in Lincolnshire. Includes history, the story of its construction, photographs and visitor information.
- Complete modern English translation published by the Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL).
- Anthony Bradshaw explains this Saxon document which lists the fortified burhs of Wessex, with maps.
- An online version of the revised edition of Sawyer's Anglo-Saxon Charters, prepared by the British Academy / Royal Historical Society Joint Committee on Anglo-Saxon Charters.
- Biography by Asser, Bishop of Sherborne, written c.888. E-text hosted by the Online Medieval and Classical Library.
- Robert Vermaat's look at British history c.400-600 AD. Includes discussions of the evidence for Vortigern and the Wansdyke earthwork.
- An historical society devoted to the study of all aspects the Anglo-Saxon period. Aims, articles, Anglo-Saxon calendar and forum.
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