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 Domesday survey and Domesday Book have generally been seen as the ... in the preceding paragraph of its 1085 entry: In this year people said and declared for a fact that Cnut king of Denmark ...

The Domesday Book is a record of landholding in England ... we are also afforded a glimpse at Anglo-Saxon society writ large. Under the entry for each manor, the Domesday scribes recorded numbers ...