...there are intricate problems to be solved and yet that they are not insoluble. A century hence . . . the substance of Domesday Book will have been rearranged....clerks tore into shreds will have been reconstituted The Value of History 139 and pictured in maps, for many men from all over England will have come within...

...Great Britain _ at the University Printing House, Cambridge (Brooke Crutchley, University Printer) A century hence the student's materials will not be...bowed themselves to him and become that man's men. From the concluding paragraph of rw MAITLAND'S Domes day Book and Beyond (Cambridge, 1 897) CONTENTS...

...something of the same sort in mind when he wrote the concluding words of Domesday Book and Beyond in 1897: A century hence the student's materials will not be...have bowed themselves to him and become that man's men.1 While no maps seem to have been published for over a generation after this, some writers must...

...1977 (with corrections) Printed in Great Britain at the University Press, Cambridge ISBN o 521 04773 o A century hence the student's materials will not be...bowed themselves to him and become that man's men. From the concluding paragraph of F. w. M JUTLAND'S Domes Jay Book anJ Beyond (Cambridge, 1897) CONTENTS...

...'a century hence the student's materials will not be in the shape in which he finds them now . . . the substance of Domesday Book will have been rearranged....will have been reconstituted and pictured in maps . . .' is now on the point of fulfilment. And the new databases will provide much more than even Maitland...

...forward. The historian FW Maitland was speculating on the future of Domesday studies when he remarked that 'those villages and hundreds which the Norman clerks...will have been reconstituted and pictured in maps' (Maitland, 1897, 520). For Darby, the 1930s was 'an exciting time', when 'the picture was changing...