PASE Domesday (second revised edition)

PASE Domesday forms part of a long-term research initiative which aims in due course to identify all the landholders named in Domesday Book and to produce a major study of landed society in England in 1066 and 1086. It is principally, therefore, a research tool, but it has been published online in the belief that it will also prove useful to anyone who may be interested in Domesday Book and the people and places it records. The website comprises two main elements: a database designed to capture every parcel of landed property recorded in Domesday Book and link them to particular people; and profiles of individual landholders. Each profile includes maps, tables, and a prose analysis which explains the rationale behind the identification of a person and, where possible, draws on other records to reconstruct the career of a Domesday landholder. There are several advantages to publishing the profiles online. The website makes the material freely and readily available; it avoids what would otherwise be prohibitive publishing costs; it allows for the profiles to be augmented and revised as research progresses; and it enhances clarity by allowing users to follow our detailed analytical work in visually intuitive ways. This second edition of PASE Domesday replaces the first edition, which was published online between 18 August 2010 and 22 July 2016. It identifies a total of 17,144 'persons' in Domesday Book (some of whom consist of more than one landholder).