''Anglo-Saxon England'' was an annual

peer-reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work ( peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...

interdisciplinary

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covering the study of various aspects of history, language, and culture in

Anglo-Saxon England Anglo-Saxon England or early medieval England covers the period from the end of Roman Empire, Roman imperial rule in Roman Britain, Britain in the 5th century until the Norman Conquest in 1066. Compared to modern England, the territory of the ...

, published by

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. It was published from 1972 to 2024, latterly in both print and digital form. In 2024 the journal was relaunched as '' Early Medieval England and its Neighbours'' "with a refreshed and expanded scope, an enlarged international editorial team, a format that allows for more frequent and timely publication, with all research fully open to the public instead of behind a subscription paywall, and a more transparent editorial process for authors". The first forty volumes of the journal included a bibliography providing an overview of the past year's work in Anglo-Saxon studies; a cumulative bibliography is now available online, published by

. The journal's motto, 'here one can still see their track', is drawn from King Alfred's

Old English Old English ( or , or ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. It developed from the languages brought to Great Britain by Anglo-S ...

translation of ''Cura pastoralis''. The front cover of every issue of the journal features a picture of the reverse of Alfred's "London Monogram" penny.

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during the journal's history included

Simon Keynes Simon Douglas Keynes ( ; born 23 September 1952) is a British historian who is Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon emeritus in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of Trini ...

, Rosalind Love, Rory Naismith,

Malcolm Godden Malcolm Reginald Godden, FBA (born 9 October 1945) is a British academic who held the chair of the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford from 1991 until 2013. Biography From 1963 to 1966 he studied for a B. ...

, Peter A. Clemoes and

Michael Lapidge Michael Lapidge, FBA (born 8 February 1942) is a scholar in the field of Medieval Latin literature, particularly that composed in Anglo-Saxon England during the period 600–1100 AD; he is an emeritus Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, a Fellow ...

, most of them based at the

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* English history journals Academic journals established in 1972 Annual journals Cambridge University Press academic journals English-language journals 1972 establishments in England Anglo-Saxon reference works {{Area-studies-journal-stub

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