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Article: LOCAL HISTORY: Time when Birmingham was a village of 45 people; The Domesday Book is now available online, offering history lovers another chance to gain access to this unique census.(Features)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- August 19, 2006
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Byline: By CHRIS UPTON
It is ironic that England's most popular book of the year is also its oldest. The launch of the online version of the Domesday Book by the National Archives at the beginning of August has attracted a volume of hits normally seen only in a census year.
Yet it is not as if the work has been exactly hidden away. Unlike the Victorian censuses, Domesday has been available in other formats for most of the last two centuries. There's an expensive facsimile of the whole thing, a Penguin paperback and individual county volumes from Phillimore ...