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1. www.bbc.co.uk › bitesize › articlesThe Domesday Book - William's control of England - KS3 ... - BBC

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   The Domesday Book is an excellent source of information and shows what life was like in England after the Norman conquest. It details land ownership, jobs, what animals people owned and what laws...

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   The manuscript is held at the National Archives at Kew, London. Domesday was first printed in full in 1783, and in 2011 the Open Domesday site made the manuscript available online. [6] The book is an invaluable primary source for modern historians and historical economists.

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   The Domesday Book. 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...

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   Nov 19, 2018 · Domesday Book was a comprehensive survey and record of all the landowners, property, tenants and serfs of medieval Norman England. It was compiled in 1086-7 under the orders of William the Conqueror (r. 1066-87). The record is unique in European history and is packed full of statistics and snippets which reveal details of life in medieval England.

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   Jan 8, 2021 · Domesday Book is the most complete survey of a pre-industrial society anywhere in the world. It enables us to reconstruct the politics, government, society and economy of 11th-century England with greater precision than is possible for almost any other pre-modern polity.

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7. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk › domesday-bookDomesday Book - The National Archives

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   Domesday Book is a detailed survey and valuation of landed property in England at the end of the 11th century. The survey was ordered by William the Conqueror at Christmas 1085 and...

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   What is the Domesday Book?

   • The completed book is an extremely detailed record of life in England in medieval times. It contains over 13,000 records of places across England, as well as a small amount of information about places in Wales, just over the border. The Domesday Book shows that: nobility Members of the ruling class, just below the king in the feudal system.

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   How many places are mentioned in the Domesday Book?

   • Domesday Book describes almost all of England and more than 13,000 places are mentioned in it. Most of them still survive today. London, Winchester, County Durham and Northumberland were not included in King William’s survey.

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   Where is the Domesday manuscript located?

   • The manuscript is held at the National Archives at Kew, London. Domesday was first printed in full in 1783, and in 2011 the Open Domesday site made the manuscript available online. The book is an invaluable primary source for modern historians and historical economists.

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   Where was space left in Great Domesday Book?

   • Space was left in Great Domesday for a record of the City of London and Winchester, but they were never written up. Other areas of modern London were then in Middlesex, Surrey, Kent, and Essex and have their place in Domesday Book's treatment of those counties.

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   Where can I find a translation of Domesday Book?

   • Alternatively, you can use the Alecto translation in Domesday Book: A Complete Translation (Penguin Books, 1992), which is indexed by place; or the printed transcript and translations produced by Alecto in 1986. Both are available in The National Archives’ library.

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   What did the Conqueror call the Domesday Book?

   • During the lifetimes of the Conqueror and his sons, royal officials employed politically correct language when describing Domesday Book. They called it a “descriptio (survey) of all England” (in 1086), a “volumen (volume) kept in the king’s Treasury in Winchester,” the “king’s book,” the “book of the Exchequer,” the “book of Winchester,” and so on.

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9. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk › domesday-bookDomesday Book - The National Archives

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   Domesday Book describes almost all of England and more than 13,000 places are mentioned in it. Most of them still survive today. London, Winchester, County Durham and Northumberland were...