Produced at amazing speed in the years after the Conquest, the Domesday Book provides a vivid picture of late 11th-century England. British Broadcasting Corporation Home. Accessibility links.

The Domesday Book was compiled on the orders of William I, who became England’s king when he defeated the Saxon king, Harold, at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. In 1085, he ordered a survey to ...

They have developed a way to access the information gathered by the BBC's Domesday project which had been stored on outdated technology. The project was developed by the BBC to create a computer-based ...

The pages of the 'nation's finest treasure' - the Domesday Book - can now be explored on the web. The original 11th-century document, which is stored at The National Archives in Kew, has been seen ...

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The book was voted the "nation's finest treasure" last year, but research commissioned to celebrate the online launch showed nearly 2% think the Domesday Book is A Dan Brown novel or part of the ...

In the 1860s, the first facsimile of Domesday Book was created by the new process of photozincography, under the directorship of Henry James, at the Southampton Offices of the Ordnance Survey.