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In the Domesday Book, information is organized by shire (bearing close resemblance to the modern county). Landholdings are then listed by landowner, rather than geographically. Not unsurprisingly ...
Did you know that Glasgow has its own Domesday Book? This tongue-in-cheek title is an ode to the oldest government record ...
This was the Domesday Book, an accounting of everything owned ... that doesn’t mean the modern Domesday Disk is lost to the sands of time. This project aims to duplicate the Domesday Disk ...
Domesday Book is the product of an extraordinary survey ... with greater precision than is possible for any almost other pre-modern polity. Given the extent to which our knowledge of our past ...
The Domesday Book, as it later became known ... "The breakthrough has been made possible by the wonders of modern technology, in selecting and arranging the data, in generating the maps, and ...
That might sound easy, but consider this: In the late 1980s, the BBC created a modern-day version of the 900-year-old Domesday Book, using a then-cutting-edge technology — laserdiscs.
The Middle Ages met the Internet age Friday when the Domesday Book — a survey of England conducted almost 1,000 years ago — went online. The book, a record of the people and lands ruled by ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
In modern times, Glasgow’s Lord Provost has been the city’s principal civic representative at home. I wrote recently about James Welsh, who served as Lord Provost during the Second World War until ...
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 ...