In 1986, 900 years after the original Domesday Book, the BBC published the Domesday Project. The project an attempt to capture the essence of life in the United Kingdom. Over a million people contributed to this digital snapshot of the country & I was one of then at school in Bedlington at the time.
At the begining of May 2011, this information was given it’s own website in orer to add to the information agtered and (more impostantly for us library folk) make available an amazing archive of images and memories from the 1980’s.
Click on the title of this blog post to link to the BBC webpage http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday (KF)