Volume 36 Issue 1 January 1986

John Palmer explores the new development of computerising the Domesday day book and what the effects will be.

David Cannadine raises questions about the transition from student life into the working world

Mark Kishlansky discusses the change for historians with the ever increasing use of computers.

Domesday Book nudges Magna Carta for the title of best-known official document in English history. Yet apart from its extraordinary scope and speed of compilation, much about the book has remained obscure or unnown. 

Elizabeth Hallam reflects on the usage and abusage of William the Conqueror's Domesday book.

Michael Lee questions the use of using political historical sources.

Historians grapple with a difficult subject.

Without their Welsh connections, the Tudors could never have made good their rags-to-riches ascent to the English throne, argues Peter R. Roberts.

A round up of the latest texts on the complex subject of the Norman Conquest.