Agnes Jane Robertson
{{Short description|English historian (1893–1959)}}
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Agnes Jane Robertson M.A. PhD (1893–1959){{cite journal| last= Naismith|first=Rory |authorlink=|journal=Anglo-Saxon England |title=The Ely memoranda and the economy of the late Anglo-Saxon fenland|volume=45 |number= |year=2016 |pages= 336|doi=10.1017/S0263675100080327 |s2cid=163878432 |issn= |url=https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/the-ely-memoranda-and-the-economy-of-the-late-anglosaxon-fenland(803566da-ea29-44f8-99a4-ef341b8ba7dd).html }} was a British historian of Anglo-Saxon England. She was a student of Hector Munro Chadwick in the Department of Anglo-Saxon and Kindred Studies at the University of Cambridge,{{cite book|last=Keynes |first=Simon |authorlink=|chapter=Introduction to the Paperback Edition|page= i|title=Select English Historical Documents of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries|editor-first=F. E.|editor-last=Harmer |publisher= Cambridge University Press|location = Cambridge, UK|year=2011|isbn=978-1-107-40222-5}} matriculating in about 1918. She was a Pfeiffer Research Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge and a lecturer in the Department of Anglo-Saxon and Kindred Studies between 1932 and 1935.'Appendix VIII', in H. M. Chadwick and the Study of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic in Cambridge, ed. by Michael Lapidge (Aberystwyth: Department of Welsh, Abersytwyth University, 2015), {{ISBN|9780955718298}}{{cite book|editor-first=Agnes Jane|editor-last=Robertson |title= Anglo-Saxon Charters|page=Title page|no-pp=yes|publisher=Cambridge University Press |location =Cambridge, UK |year=2009|orig-year=1956|edition=2nd|isbn=978-0-521-17832-7}} She was later a reader in English language at the University of Aberdeen, which gives the Agnes Jane Robertson Memorial Lecture in her honour.{{Cite web |url=https://www.abdn.ac.uk/sll/research/news-and-events-437.php |title=News and Events, Centre for Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Studies, University of Aberdeen |access-date=2021-08-26 |archive-date=2021-01-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128130530/https://www.abdn.ac.uk/sll/research/news-and-events-437.php |url-status=live }}
Robertson edited and translated two volumes of Anglo-Saxon documents, The Laws of the Kings of England from Edmund to Henry I, published in 1925,{{cite book|editor-first=A.J.|editor-last=Robertson |title=The Laws of the Kings of England from Edmund to Henry I. Edited and translated by A.J. Robertson. |publisher= Cambridge University Press|location = Cambridge, UK |year=1925|oclc=560461322}} and Anglo-Saxon Charters, in 1939, with a second edition in 1956. A facsimile reprint was published in 2009.Robertson, Anglo-Saxon Charters
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