OPTION B: The Domesday Book - compiled in 1085-6 - is one of the few historical records whose name is familiar to most people in this country.

The Domesday Book is the fist record of survey in England and it is like a census. It was made in 1085-6 by a William the Conqueror's scribe with ink on a parchment and it was written in Latin. Its main purpose was to have a record of all lands, properties and people in Great Britain. so William, hungry for information, sent trusted officials to every part of the country to collect it. The Domesday Book allowed William to extend his control over England, to increase the import of taxation, to be more ready in case of war and to improve his economic, politic and military system.
"Domesday Book" means Judgment Day from the word "doomsday" thai is the end of the world, and it refers to the fact that you could not argue with the Domesday Book as you could not argue on Judgment Day.
It is kept at National Gallery but it isn't on show because it is too fragile, however you can see a copy of it.
The Domesday Book is the oldest document of Europe and it gives information about England in the mid-1080s.
Around 1980, the BBC decided to do a project similar to the Domesday Book: it divided England into blocks and every block had to sent to BBC a photograoh or a letter of what they own. Over a milion of people took part in the project. But the BBC made a terrible mistake: it wrote the project in laser discs, a kind of file that can't be read nowadays, so the people that work at BBC to recover the information. In conclusion the Domesday Book is one of the most remarkable documents of all Europe because today's census derive from it.