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, of the ...

The BBC's 25-year-old Domesday project been brought back to life at Bletchley Park. At a press conference today, The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) unveiled one of two working examples of a new ...

A good idea, combined with the right technology, can change the world. Facebook, Wikipedia and the wheel have all shown this to be true. 25 years ago, the BBC dreamt up a similarly inspired scheme.

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 the ...

After the Norman invasion of England, William the Conqueror ordered a great reckoning of all the lands and assets owned. Tax assessors went out into the country, counted sheep and chickens, and ...

'Not even one ox, nor one cow, nor one pig was left out.' But what William the Conqueror didn't have in the Domesday Book was an easy way of searching its reams of data. It has taken more than 900 ...

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 William the ...

Loughborough University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. In 1085, almost two decades had passed since William the Conqueror’s victory at Hastings, but his realm was not secure. The ...

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 ...

The Domesday Book provides a fascinating insight into the 11th-century Norman takeover of Anglo-Saxon England. Read between the lines of this unique record. The Domesday survey and Domesday Book have ...