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Pre-Conquest Britain Database

Online Resource Launched

  • Date24 April 2019

The Pre-Conquest Britain database is now available for all to use online.

PreConquest Britain

Pre-Conquest Britain: persons, legendary and historical, who lived in Britain before the conquest of 1066, with sources, and where they can be found in English translation.

It consists of an alphabetical listing of persons either historical or mythical or legendary, and in some cases fictional: incorporating Roman, British, Angle, Saxon, Scandinavian/Viking.

The resource also includes genealogical tables, a list of the battles of the first millennium, and a list of the pre-Roman kings of Britain.

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