How Domesday made modern England

How Domesday made modern England The Norman book records an apartheid state Max Adams Sep 2 2026 - 12:03am < 1 Max Adams is the author of Domesday: 1,000 Miles on Foot Through the England of the Norman Conquest. He was the first director of Durham University Archaeological Services, before turning to writing in the 2000s. His group biography of John Martin and his circle, The Prometheans, was a Guardian “Book of hte Week” in 2008. He was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Newcastle University for three years. His first Early Medieval study, The King in the North, became a bestseller and he has since followed it with a quarter of studies of the period, including Ælfred’s Britain (2017). He also writes about trees, woods and landscape. He lives in County Durham. He is a Churchill Fellow and a V