One of the most consulted books at the Dorset History Centre is Hutchins’ History and Antiquities of Dorset. John Hutchins, then Vicar of Swyre and Melcombe Horsey and later Rector of Holy Trinity Wareham, began collecting information for his History of Dorset in the 1730’s. It took him nearly forty years to complete and, were… Read more Hutchins’ Extra Illustrated: Volume 1
We may have cheated a little with this entry, but we felt it was a good excuse to tell you a little more about what goes on ‘behind the scenes’ inside the repository. What are the repositories? Repositories (or strong-rooms) are the temperature and humidity controlled spaces which store all of the records we hold… Read more Archives A-Z: I is for Inside the repository
Architecture is one of the many ways people have shaped Dorset’s landscape over the years. As a rural county, Dorset has not often been at the forefront of cutting edge design, but it is the home-place of some influential architects, and the seat of some truly stunning design. A Local Influence These small sketches are… Read more Art in Architecture
Digital preservation is the practice which will determine if and how we access electronically-held data in the future. Sam Johnston, the County Archivist, was recently lucky enough to attend the Digital Preservation Coalition’s awards ceremony in Amsterdam. A real hardship, you might say! Sam was very pleased to be asked – foreign travel rarely features… Read more Going Dutch for digital preservation!
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