Domesday Book

AHRC Project Data

The AHRC Domesday project is now complete and the data is available from the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) as Study Number 5694 at: http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/findingdata/snDescription.asp?sn=5694

The data is also available to download from the university of Hull (http://edocs.hull.ac.uk).
Click on the icon. Each item available to download is fully documented

The AHRC has awarded the completed project its highest possible grade (Outstanding). The comments of the Peer Review Panel include:

• "an exemplary set of data of outstanding importance", exceeding expectations
• "of outstanding importance ... of immense benefit to the study of everything for which Domesday Book is a crucial source"
• "among the most successful of all AHRC ventures in knowledge transfer"
• a data set which "specialists have been waiting for for a long time"
• "the definitive search tool for what is arguably the most important source in English medieval history"
• "will form the basis of all Domesday research in the next generation - and after"
• the data offers "massive possibilities" for further research

Although the AHRC project is complete, work will continue on enlarging and enhancing the data. Updates will be announced through this website