New Domesday database launched online

New Domesday database launched online. Aug 2010, PR 171/10 PASE Domesday, a database of Domesday Book linked to mapping resources, has been launched online today by a research team based at King's College London and the University of Cambridge. Domesday Book is the product of a great survey of England commissioned by William the Conqueror in 1086. This new resource makes it possible to list, map and quantify the estates of the landholders named in the survey of conquered England more efficiently than ever before. It is the first database of Domesday Book linked to mapping resources to be made freely available online, and breaks new ground in humanities computing. It also has the potential to transform the study of Domesday Book and our understanding of English society before and after the Norman Conquest. The launch coincides with, and will be featured in, a one-hour documentary on Domesday Book to be broadcast on BBC2 tomorrow evening (10 August, 20.00), which is written and presented Dr Stephen Baxter − a Reader in Medieval History at King's, and one of the project's co-directors.