People of Medieval Scotland
People of Northern England
The Breaking of Britain is a collaborative project, funded by the AHRC, between the University of Glasgow , Lancaster University , the University of Edinburgh , and King’s College London (including the Department of Digital Humanities ). The project is concerned with the period which extends from the failure of Alexander II’s short-lived revival of a Scoto-Northumbrian realm in 1216–17 to the formal abolition of cross-border landholding by Robert I in November 1314, following his victory at Bannockburn
The project builds on the work of another project funded by the AHRC, The Paradox of Medieval Scotland , and will extend the People of Medieval Scotland database to 1314. It will also be linked to a new database, People of Northern England , recording interactions between the Crown and people in the three northern counties of England from 1216 to 1307. The project will also study border chronicles as a source both for medieval perceptions of identity and fields of medieval historical interest.
Listen here to a podcast in which the Breaking of Britain investigators introduce the project
People of Medieval Scotland
People of Northern England