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Canonical name: Martin, G. H.
Legal name: Martin, Geoffrey Haward
Birthdate: 1928-09-27
Date of death: 2007-12-20
Gender: male
Nationality: UK
Birthplace: Essex, England
Education: Colchester Royal Grammar School
Oxford University (Merton College|history|1947|DPhil)
Manchester University (1952)
Occupations: academic
historian
Relationships: Hamer, Janet (wife|1953)
Organizations: Public Record Office (Keeper of Public Records|1982-1988)
University College, Leicester (lecturer|economic history|Reader in History|1966-1973|Public Orator|1971-1974|Professor of History|1973-1982|head of history department|1975-1980|Pro-Vice-Chancellor|1979-1982)
Carleton University, Ottawa (visiting professor|1958-1959|1967-1968)
Oxford University (Merton College|visiting research fellow|1971|senior research fellow|1990)
International Council on Archives (executive committee|member|1984-1988)
Association of Commonwealth Archivists (co-founder and first chairman|1984) (show all 11)
British Records Association (chairman|1982-1991|later vice-president)
Royal Historical Society (vice-president|1984-1988)
Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (member|1987-1994)
Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society (president|1999-2002)
University of Essex (research chair)
Awards and honors: CBE (1986)

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DOMESDAY BOOK - A Complete Translation (Alecto… by Editors: Dr ANN WILLIAMS & Prof. G.H. MARTIN

Oldest record of Anglo-Saxon England - a superb written account at the time of the Norman Conquest: Following their victory at the Battle of Hastings (1066) a wide-ranging, assiduously collected census under-taken by the new rulers of England. Over several years it produced a geographical-economic-social listing of the peoples of England who were being displaced as the prevailing social order & at all levels reduced in class to peasantry. Domesday is made on the orders of Duke William (latterly King of England) of Normandy to enable his 10,000 strong cohort of 'conquerors' to collect the taxes & configure the Feudal System that will govern England for centuries & in some ways still affects the geo-political landscape of the nation. No other European country possesses such a unique early History.… (more)

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Domesday Book by Geoffrey Martin

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communityfriend | 2 other reviews | Jul 16, 2007 |

Domesday Book (Penguin Classic): A Complete… by G. Martin

Fascinating in the way a set of encyclopedias or a dictionary can be...there is no story or plot, being just a tax record of assets, but really absorbing.

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