Produced at amazing speed in the years after the Conquest, the Domesday Book provides a vivid picture of late 11th-century England. Find out how it was compiled, and what it reveals about life in ...

Their complete findings were then collected at Winchester and written up in two volumes, Great Domesday and Little Domesday, which together formed the Domesday Book. Little Domesday, which was ...

The Domesday Book is The National Archives' oldest and most famous public record. It is a highly detailed survey and valuation of all the land held by the king, William the Conqueror, and his ...

The Domesday Book has been published online for the first time, and you can check out what Preston was like all the way back in 1086. Open Domesday, set up […] ...

The Domesday survey and Domesday Book have generally been seen as the culmination of the Norman Conquest, and show the results of a great investigation, commissioned by William the Conqueror ...

A second set of books were created, known as the Valuation or ‘Domesday Books’. These contain the initial information from the beginning of the survey, before the more detailed field books were ...

First mentioned in the 11th Century in the Domesday Book, Deal’s rebrand is being used to highlight how much money Brits miss out on in… deals. The affluent seaside town, in Kent, gets its new ...