A practical guide to searching, mapping and interpreting Wessex hillfort records, plus how to combine them with local sources for a history project.

Learn to recognise Anglo-Saxon script, common abbreviations, and legal formulas in Wessex charters, with practical steps for reading original diplomas and later copies.

A practical beginner's guide to tracing Wessex ancestors through parish registers, covering what baptism, marriage and burial entries contain, where to find them, and how to read them.