Laserdisc, you say? Format of the future, you say?Once upon a time, a weak-willed boy called Kristian was press-ganged into doing some high-level geekiness for the 1986 reinterpretation of the Domesday project.
Following a breathtaking lack of interest (globally, nationally or. even more damning in a county of spectacularly unexceptional news, locally) and the almost immediate obsolescence of the technology involved in recording it, this plutonium-grade example of my total lack of cool as a teenager was buried, seemingly never to be rediscovered.
Unfortunately, this did not factor in two things: one, the persistence and diligence of the National Archive in pursuing the restoration of the data and two, the eye for detail, hitherto unrecognised in Mr Julian Cosson, for bringing my contribution (and the evidence thereof) back to my attention.
My reserved thanks are tossed idly in the general direction of both these parties.
Just so we're clear, I didn't do any work on it. I would've been smoking fags and pulling chicks with the cool kids down at Kelly's Arcade (please note, may not actually have happened) - I probably got Paul Matta and Simon Twining to do my bits in exchange for one of my sandwiches.
And with that grubby example of revisionism in action, I shall leave you to ponder the nature of history and subjectivity, particularly with reference with the Domesday Books (of both the 11th and the 20th Centuries). Or not.
