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  • Historian tells new story about venerated ‘Domesday Book’

    Nov 13, 2018 8:30 am by Craig ChamberlainResearch
    Roll fragment from the abbey at Burton-upon-Trent. Photo by Carol Symes, reproduced courtesy Staffordshire (England) Public Record Office.

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    • Roll fragment from the abbey at Burton-upon-Trent. Photo by Carol Symes, reproduced courtesy Staffordshire (England) Public Record Office.

    An Illinois historian tells a new story about England’s famous “Domesday Book” and what it tells us about the trauma of the Norman conquest