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, writes Barry Shurlock DURING the last hundred years many small countries have experienced the withdrawal of a colonial power. More often than not, a long period of chaos is endured before order is regained. More than 1,500 years ago Hampshire was in a similar situation, as the Romans left and Saxons took their place. The first coherent snapshot of the organisation of the country is the Domesday Book. It was compiled nearly 700 years after the collapse of the Roman Empire and a generation after the Norman Conquest. It shows a county divided into ‘hundreds’, with some names that make little sense to modern eyes. ....
70 Years of History Today History Today is 70! To celebrate we have published some of the best articles from our archive in a special ebook, free to read now. In its 70 years, History Today has moved with the times but has never lost sight of its guiding principle: to bring serious history to a wide audience. To celebrate our anniversary, we have published a special ebook featuring some of the best articles from our extensive archive. Each piece has been carefully selected to give you a taste of the fantastic writing which has earned History Today’s reputation and popularity. Enjoy compelling, insightful accounts of the past by leading historians from the 1950s up to the present day. ....
ALTHOUGH many resist the idea that hard copy print products – call them books! - are on the way out, there are obvious advantages with digital files. Whereas, for example, sourcing Anglo-Saxon charters once required a dusty encounter in an academic library, much can now be achieved online from the ‘electronic Sawyer’, a version of Peter Sawyer’s annotated list and bibliography, hosted at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King’s College, London. The charters themselves, however, are published in a mammoth 30-volume operation by Oxford University Press. Sean Miller’s Charters of the New Minster (later Hyde Abbey) has been in print since 2001 and covers 34 pre-Conquest documents, including the will of Alfred the Great. ....