Full FeedDomesday hits the Internet
The Domesday book is the oldest and most famous public record in Britain, based on 13,418 settlements in 1086, and it is now available free online thanks to a three year project by Prog John Palmer and his son, Matt from Hull, England.
900 years old, the parchment papers show that the value of property in the UK in 1085 was £75,000 (£1 trillion at todays prices), and is widely accepted as one of the most influential sources of medieval history. The project to convert it for the internet took three years, but dates back to 1980 when he was looking at a teaching project, but at the time computers weren’t powerful enough for the job.
The Domesday Book is available online at www.esds.ac.uk/findingdata and can be displayed as maps, tables or text from the original Latin text.
Via [Telegraph]
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