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British History Goes Online
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NPR Morning Edition
08-07-2006
British History Goes Online
Host: STEVE INSKEEP, RENEE MONTAGNE
Time: 10:00-11:00 AM
STEVE INSKEEP, host:
Now, another important document is now more accessible. Britains Domesday Book made its digital debut last week. The book was commissioned at Christmas in the year 1085. That ancient date explains the spelling of domesday: D-O-M-E-S-D-A- Y. The book came about because King William I, also known as Willia...
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; Grace Hammond The pages of the "nation's finest treasure" - the Domesday Book - can now be explored on the Internet. The original 11th-century document, which is stored at the National Archives in Kew, west London, has been seen by less than one per cent of the population, research has shown. From
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