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Although clouded in some debate, the first Jewish immigrants came to England with the Normans in c.1066 and by 1189 had established 24 provincial Jewries in places such as Norwich, Oxford, Cambridge, Coventry, Lincoln, Exeter and Gloucester. Our main sources for the Jewish presence at this time comes from fiscal Christian sources that not only record place of residence, but also the payment of taxes. These nine papers which stem from a meeting held at Southampton University in 2000, present a series of studies of Jewish life in Britain, with some reference to their European context. Contributors discuss the historical, literary and archaeological sources relating to the Jews in Britain, their first appearance and their lives under Henry III and Edward I, the relationship between the Jews and the Church, the place of Jewish women in society, Jews in York and their final `expulsion' in c.1290.