DOMESDAY: 1000 MILES ON FOOT THROUGH/ NORMAN CONQUEST (HB)

Bringing together archaeology, contemporary chronicles and historical geography, Max Adams fleshes out the landscapes of a thousand years ago, peopling them with real actors: lords, thegns, villeins, cottars and slaves; with the millers, turners, priests and burgesses who yielded their taxes and labour to their new Norman lords. In meeting their modern counterparts - shopkeepers, farmers, craftspeople and local officials - Max casts reflective light on Englishness and the English landscape; on our ongoing relations with tax, law and authority; and with the past.