After the Norman invasion of England, William the Conqueror ordered a great reckoning of all the lands and assets owned. Tax assessors went out into the country, counted sheep and chickens, and ...

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one story that fell ...

After the Norman invasion of England, William the Conqueror ordered a great reckoning of all the lands and assets owned. Tax assessors went out into the country, counted sheep and chickens, and ...

What was originally a coincidence of reviewing – two dispatches from the Dark Ages, Treasures of the Anglo-Saxons on BBC Four and Domesday on BBC Two – in fact turned into a remarkably instructive ...

AN ABANDONED village is set to reopen next month, as visitors are warned about historic dangers. Imber Village in Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, dates back to the Domesday Book, and has also operated as ...

Stock characters and labored prose dampen the otherwise solid historical The Owls of Gloucester, the 10th in Edward Marston's Domesday series to feature 11th-century royal commissioners Ralph Delchard ...

You could easily spend a whole year exploring the dozens of villages scattered around Nottinghamshire. The county’s 830 square-miles contain hundreds of weird and wonderful villages and hamlets, many ...

The Domesday book is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales, completed in 1086 at the behest of the king William I, otherwise known as William the Conqueror. It ...

Situated beside the River Trent, Newark-on-Trent is a peaceful market town with a history that stretches back nearly a thousand years. First recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, this Nottinghamshire ...

In reverse historical order, Domesday is the exemplum of what not to do, which is turn an average idea for In Our Time on Radio 4 into an hour-long documentary for the television. This is the greatest ...