The Domesday Book, the oldest and most famous public record in Britain, is now available online The Domesday Book is available free online for the first time after the 900-year-old parchment papers ...

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Within 20 years of the Norman conquest, England was dominated by "a new class of super rich Frenchmen gorging on their success". So said an academic who has used the Domesday Book to trace the rise ...

The Middle Ages met the Internet age Friday when the Domesday Book — a survey of England conducted almost 1,000 years ago — went online. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad ...

I'm a 1086 kind of a guy; 2006 leaves me cold. So the National Archives decision to put the Domesday Book online is something of a mixed blessing. Good to have the info, but how on earth does this ...

The Domesday Book has embarked on many varied journeys in its 920-year lifetime. Its latest stop is now the web. The iconic 11th Century document, which has been rebound, copied, facsimiled and even ...

Domesday Project producer Alex Mansfield shows Rory Cellan-Jones life in the UK as recorded by the 1980s project I've spent much of this week looking at the Domesday Reloaded project, a fascinating ...

The survey was "most comprehensive of any pre-industrial society in the world". Tracing the history of English villages or pieces of land is to become easier with a new online database that helps map ...

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A rich digital archive of British life in the 1980s has been brought back to life by researchers from the UK and the US. They have developed a way to access the information gathered by the BBC's ...