Domesday Book: medieval big data

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🗓️ 11 January 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Stephen Baxter discusses the latest insights revealed by a new study of the 11th-century survey of England

Professor Stephen Baxter discusses the latest insights revealed by a new study of Domesday Book, which suggests that William the Conqueror’s survey of England in the mid-1080s was more efficient, complex, and sophisticated than previously thought.

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0:48.8	Hello and welcome to the History Extra Podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling
0:54.1	History Magazine. I'm Ellie Corthon. Today's podcast is Professor Steven Baxter, a world-leading
1:09.9	expert on Doomsday book, which is the survey of England carried out during the reign of William
1:15.2	the First in the mid-ten-eighties. Steven is clarined in Professor of Medieval History and Baron
1:21.0	Fellow in Medieval History at St Peter's College, Oxford. He's just published a new interpretation
1:27.0	of Doomsday book in an article in the English Historical Review called How and Why Was Doomsday
1:32.9	Made. This article is one of the results of a project investigating the medieval manuscript,
1:38.5	which is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and led by Principal Investigator
1:43.6	Julia Crick and co-investigators Steven Baxter and Peter Stokes. Our content director, David
1:49.8	Musgrave, called Professor Baxter to find out more. Steven, thanks for joining us. Today we're
1:56.6	going to talk about Doomsday book, the land survey of England that was conducted at the end of
2:01.7	William the Conqueror's reign and he died in 1087. Before we jump into this, can we just sort of cover
2:09.7	off some basic points about this? Is it Doomsday book or the Doomsday book? I think Doomsday book for
2:18.2	preference. Yes, and also the Doomsday survey as a whole is important to have in mind. Doomsday
2:27.4	book is profoundly important, but just one output from a process and the whole Doomsday survey
2:34.4	took place. It was commissioned in late 1085 and was undertaken in 1086. And Doomsday book was
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