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Michael Wood.
Domesday: A Search for the Roots of England.
Published London: BBC Publications, 1986.
ISBN 0563205008;
ISBN-13: 9780563205005.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Size: 193×251×20mm.
Page count: 224pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: this copy has some scuffs, ruffles & grubby marks on its dustjacket; the book itself looks in reasonable order, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £6.00
P&P inc. within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price for paperback £7.99]
Weight without packaging: 796g.

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Originally published to accompany the BBC TV series celebrating the Domesday anniversary in 1986.

Contents: ‘The Great Survey’ of 1086; Ancient landscape — the search begins; The Roman past; Roman Britain to Anglo-Saxon England; Coming of the English; Beginnings of English govt.; Vikings & the English — origins of the English state; Anglo-Saxon empire — war, land & taxation; Domesday roots — the Viking impact; Money & tax — Old English coinage; Workforce on the eve of the Conquest; Norman Conquest; Freeborn English — an historical riddle; English individualism?; The highland zone; Midland peasant — the Domesday legacy; Epilogue — shaped by the past.

Illustrations: throughout, 16 pages in colour, the rest monochrome; illustrated endpapers
Maps & plans: 16

Notes: no
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: yes
Bibliography: 2pp
Index: yes

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