[1] The PASE online database[2] presents details (which it calls factoids) of the lives of every recorded individual who lived in, or was closely connected with, Anglo-Saxon England from 597 to 1087,[3] with specific citations to (and often quotations from) each primary source describing each factoid.

PASE was funded by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council from 2000 to 2008 as a major research project based at King's College London in the Department of History and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (now the Department of Digital Humanities), and at the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge.

A second phase (PASE2), released on 10 August 2010, added information drawn chiefly from Domesday Book to the database.

A number of publications have resulted from the creation of the PASE database - these are listed on the site.

[8] The PASE database is dedicated to professor Nicholas Brooks and Ann Williams.