Domesday: 1,000 Miles on Foot Through the England of the Norman Conquest
Tuesday 6 October
Castle Hill Baptist Church
4.30pm
When William I sent his agents to survey every shire in England, he asked them to list his holdings and calculate his resulting wealth from the taxes due to him.
Yet the manuscript record of the Domesday ‘Great Survey’ is not just a tax record, but also a unique window onto the structure of English administration and economy before and immediately after the Norman Conquest: its shires and hundreds, acres, hides and townships.
In Domesday, Max Adams retreads the path taken in 1085 by William’s agents, taking us on foot through the very sites covered by one of the most iconic documents of English history, exploring in a fascinating new history this unique portrait of a land and its people, bringing the past into intimate contact with the present.