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Domesday around the Beeb
There's quite a lot of programming around Domesday Reloaded over the coming weeks. I thought some might like to have a run down of what's planned... This morning BBC Breakfast and the Today Programme...
View ArticleThank you for your updates, comments and suggestions
To all the many many who have submitted content to our new Domesday Reloaded website yesterday and today, thank you. It's been a marvellous response and we're dealing with adding your text and pictures...
View ArticleMaking History, Radio 4
Many of our BBC colleagues have been looking into the Domesday Reloaded content over the past months and preparing stories for broadcast this week. There'll be more and more over the summer as we try...
View ArticleLessons ready to learn from Domesday Reloaded
Article written by Anna Challand Anna Challand Teaching consultant for Domesday Reloaded When I was first asked to look at the material on the Domesday Reloaded site it was a historian's dream come...
View ArticleGeograph and Domesday Reloaded
David Hawgood suited up for Geograph Many of the 2011 pictures appearing in Domesday Reloaded so far have come from members of the "Geograph" community. The Geograph project has much in common with...
View ArticleAn Analogue Anomaly - Physical Photography
There’s something wrong with this picture of Old Hunstanton Church: Old Hunstanton Church as viewed on the 1986 Domesday Disc Can you spot it? OK, let’s try an easier one. How about the obvious...
View ArticleFrom the National Disc...
In small writing on the inside of the 1986 Domesday Disc box it says: "For more information look up 'Domesday' on the National Disc." If you do that, you are presented with an essay by the Project's...
View Article"You stupid, stupid little boys!"
Next week on Radio 4, "Domesday Reloaded: Me and My Square" airs daily from 12.45. Five Radio 4 presenters have returned to their Domesday Squares - those which hold especially mid-eighties...
View ArticleMe and My Square
On Radio 4 today from 12.45 we heard Sheila Dillon return to her Domesday Square around Hoghton in Lancashire. The dairy farm at which she used to work in the holidays, the lack of public...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Domesday
Not many of these exist. 25 years ago this week the "Domesday System" was finally unveiled and put on the market. Here's a scan of the BBC's in-house paper Ariel's article from that week. If you...
View ArticleThe Last Post
Domesday Reloaded finally comes to an end this week. At the end of last year, to mark the anniversary of the publication, we unveiled a new multi-touch device and a gallery at The National Museum...
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