Domesday Book joins UNESCO register

Domesday Book joins UNESCO catalogue

10 July 2013

Eleven items require been selected from the UK's libraries, rolls and museums to represent our ungathered heritage in the UK Memory of the World Register. From Domesday Book to Hitchcock's inactive films, these priceless items span stingily 900 years, come from across the nation and embody pivotal moments in the narration of their communities and the UK in the same proportion that a whole.

This is the third part group of inscriptions to the UNESCO UK Memory of the World Register, some online catalogue created to help further some of the UK's irregular documentary riches across the world.

'This year's inscriptions muse the richness of UK culture and recital, from medieval manuscripts to ground rupture cinema,' said David Dawson, Chair of the UK Memory of the World Committee. 'We sense of possible fulfilment that today's announcement will help forward people to discover these items and collections, for example well as some of the other grand documentary heritage near them.'

The 11 items and collections essential inscribed to the UK Memory of the World Register are:

Domesday Book - The National Archives, Kew

Tyne & Wear Shipyards pile - Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums, Newcastle

Aberdeen Burgh Registers - Aberdeen City Council, Aberdeen 

Hitchcock's dumb films - British Film Institute National Archive, London

Churchill Archives - Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge

The Haig Papers - National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh

Scottish Royal National Institution registers - University of Stirling, Stirling

Dorothy Wordsworth's daily register - Wordsworth Trust, Cumbria

Thomas Hardy Archive - Dorset County Museum, Dorchester

London bomb injure maps - London Metropolitan Archives, London

Robert Stephenson and Company registers - National Railway Museum, York

The chronicle is part of a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) advertisement to support and raise awareness of documents. The UK Register complements the UNESCO Memory of the World International Register, that is a catalogue of documentary portion of global significance and outstanding general notion value.

For further information, visit www.unesco.org.uk/ukregister.