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The Electronic Sawyer
The ‘Electronic Sawyer’ presents in searchable and browsable form a revised, updated, and expanded version of Peter Sawyer's Anglo-Saxon Charters: an Annotated List and Bibliography, published by the Royal Historical Society in 1968. Its main content derives from Sawyer’s catalogue, with corrections and modifications, and with additional data collected by Dr Susan Kelly, Dr Rebecca Rushforth, and others. Dr Rushforth was also originally responsible for the development of the database which lies behind the online version of this catalogue.
To view the structure of Sawyer's catalogue, and for an explanation of the scope and form of the separate entries, please go to the About page.
The ‘Electronic Sawyer’, was originally mounted on a server at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (now DDH), at King’s College London, but was subsequently moved. It is an integral part of the KEMBLE website, now mounted on a server at Robinson College University of Cambridge. We are deeply grateful to Robinson College and Dr David Woodman for their ongoing support.
‘Kemble’ is the website of the British Academy-Royal Historical Society Joint Committee on Anglo-Saxon Charters. The BA-RHS Committee on Anglo-Saxon Charters has undertaken this work as part of the publication of a new multi-volume edition of the corpus of Anglo-Saxon charters. Further information about the project, and about ‘Sawyer’, the ‘Revised Sawyer’, and the ‘Electronic Sawyer’, is available on the ‘Kemble’ website.
The production of the ‘Electronic Sawyer’ would not have been originally possible without the generous support of the Arts and Humanities Research Council in funding the work of Dr Rushforth and others. Dr Kelly’s work, at an earlier stage, was funded by The Leverhulme Trust and The Newton Trust. We are also most grateful to Professor Harold Short, and to the original CCH team, for their expertise and support. The site is now managed by Dr Anthony Harris (Cambridge) with the kind assistance of the Digital Preservation Programme DPP team at Cambridge University Library, who also manage the hosting of the site.
