Domesday

1,000 miles on foot through the England of the Norman Conquest
A fascinating journey through the landscapes and communities of the Domesday Book from the author of King in the North

The Domesday Book describes the furniture of a culture and its economy the legacy of Anglo-Saxon England.

When King William I sent his agents to survey every shire in England, he asked them to list his holdings and calculate what was owed to him. The manuscript record of the resulting Great Survey is not just a tax record, but 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 King William Is agents, taking us on foot through the very sites covered by one of the most iconic documents of English history. In this fascinating new history, A