England:- History

The Magna Carta can be seen at the British Library. The British Library web site includes many related resources including this translation of Magna Carta into modern English.

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

The National Archives web site gives some useful background to historical resources, including The Domesday Book and The Jacobite Risings, 1715 and 1745.Look generally at their Research Guides. The National Archives website also includes some fascinating historical resources in their Education pages.

The English Peerage (1790) is a book about the ancient and present state of the English Nobility in 1790.

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.

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.

If you are able to find a copy, this book is an excellent resource for fathoming old weights and measures.
A Dictionary of English Weights and Measures from Anglo-Saxon Times to the Nineteenth Century. Ronald Edward Zupko University of Wisconsin Press 1968.