Domesday Book

Latest News:

July 2007

AHRC-funded Domesday project completed

The data created by the AHRC Domesday project provides the most comprehensive array of social and economic data available for a pre-industrial society from anywhere in Europe, possibly anywhere on the planet. It consists of the following items:

• an electronic translation of Domesday Book
• databases of Names and Places
• databases of Statistics, Claims, Boroughs and the Yorkshire Summary containing between them several million data items
• a scholarly commentary, amounting to some two million words, on all matters of interest or in need of elucidation in the text
• project documentation

See AHRC Project Data for access to this data.

It is hoped to incorporate all this material in a new edition of Domesday Explorer at a later date, linking the translation of Great and Little Domesday to facsimiles of the Domesday manuscripts, the Statistics and other databases, the scholarly notes, and interactive mapping software.

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Archive:

September 2004

Domesday project wins large AHRC award

The AHRC has awarded £200,000 for the completion of an electronic Domesday Book. The grant will fund 3 research assistants from October 2004 to October 2006:

• produce an electronic and fully encoded text of Little Domesday
• compile a database of major Domesday statistics for all people and places
• add a scholarly commentary on all matters of interest in the 25,000 entries.

The material will also be incorporated in a new edition of Domesday Explorer, linking the translation of Great and Little Domesday to facsimiles of the Domesday manuscripts, the statistics database, the scholarly notes, and interactive mapping software.