Free online educational resources for the teaching and study of the Anglo-Saxons and Old English

The Woruldhord project is based at the University of Oxford and presents to you a collection of freely reusable educational resources to help you study or teach the period of English history centred on the Anglo-Saxons, or Old English (literature and language). This equates to a period of history roughly covering the mid-fifth century until the eleventh century. All the material held here was donated by members of the public, museums and libraries, academics, teachers, and societies. This, then, is a community collection created by a community of people for others to use.

 

What will you find? The archive contains photographs, documents, presentations, databases, and more; covering objects, archaeological sites, poems, prose writings, and course material. It holds around 4,500 digital objects contributed by about 400 people or institutions. Anything you locate within Woruldhord can be freely reused for educational purposes under a Creative Commons Licence (CC-BY-NC-SA, see also Permitted Use).To search for a particular item, historical figure, poem, place, etc, enter the search term below (e.g. 'Beowulf', 'Alfred', 'Hastings'). For more information about how to search the collection, see the Help section.