Families of the Domesday Book

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By Charles Graves ’53

Published Jan. 21, 2016

This multi-volume work presents 2,000 families whose histories offer a look into the political and social life of England and the Continent during the years 1020–1320. Included are more than 700 families who are from the time of the Domesday Book, a manuscript written in 1086.

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