The Domesday Book (In Our Time)
1086 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Domesday Book, a vast survey of the land and property of much of England and Wales completed in 1086. Twenty years after the Battle of Hastings, William the Conqueror sent officials to most of his new territories to compile a list of land holdings and to gather information about settlements, the people who lived there
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1086
- Norman Conquest of England (1066)
- East–West Schism (1054)
- First Crusade (1096)
- Angkor Wat built (1113)
- Domesday Book (1086)
- Reign of William the Conqueror (1066)
- Crusades (1095)
- Battle of Hastings (1066)
- Bi Sheng invents movable type (1040)
- Capture of Jerusalem by First Crusade (1099)