British historians called Tuesday for a public report on the inquiry
into 29 forged documents found at the National Archives that falsely
accuse Winston Churchill's government of having a secret, cordial
relationship with Nazi SS chief Henrich Himmler at the height of World
War II.Eight [...]
In an effort to block posthumous rebaptisms by the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints, Catholic dioceses throughout the world
have been directed by the Vatican not to give information in parish
registers to the Mormons’ Genealogical Society of Utah.
An April 5 letter from the [...]
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), a UK-based not-for-profit
organisation with the National Archives and the British Library among
the membership, issued a report in which it called for PDF/A to be
employed by organisations wanting to "be sure that their documents will
be [...]
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The Domesday Book (also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester) was the record of the great survey of England completed in 1086, executed for William I of England, or 'William the Conqueror'. The survey was similar to a census by a government of today. William needed information about the country he had just conquered so he could administer it. While spending Christmas of 1085 in Gloucester, William "had deep speech with his counsellors and sent men all over England to each shire ... to find out ... what or how much each landholder had in land and livestock, and what it was worth." (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle)
One of the main purposes of the survey was to find out who owned what so they could be taxed on it, and the judgment of the assessors was final—whatever the book said about who owned the property, or what it was worth, was the law, and there was no appeal. It was written in Latin, although there were some vernacular words inserted for native terms with no previous Latin equivalent and the text was highly abbreviated. The name Domesday comes from the Old English word dom, meaning accounting or reckoning. Thus domesday, or doomsday, is literally a day of reckoning, meaning that a lord takes account of what is owed by his subjects. Medieval Christians believed that in the Last Judgment as recorded in Revelation, Christ would carry out a similar accounting of one's deeds—hence the term doomsday also referred to this eschatological event.
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