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Domesday: Travelling the England of the Norman Conquest', with Max Adams

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Blackfriars Priory, GloucesterSaturday 12. September 2026 10amFrom £12
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In 1085, just 19 years after the Battle of Hastings, William the Conqueror ordered the most astonishing survey medieval England had ever seen.

In 1085, just 19 years after the Battle of Hastings, William the Conqueror ordered the most astonishing survey medieval England had ever seen.

Now bestselling historian Max Adams follows in the footsteps of the kings commissioners on an epic thousand-mile journey through the places and people recorded in Domesday Book.In a fascinating illustrated talk, he brings Norman England dramatically to life and asks what changed after 1066.

From the conquest depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry to the kingdom measured in Domesday, discover how a new England emerged.

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via Sacra Ladybellegate Street , GL1 2HN Gloucester

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