It’s that time of year again when it seems there are apples everywhere. People lucky enough to have fruit trees in their back garden leave out boxes of the fruit begging passers-by to “Help yourself”! Whole village communities club together their surplus apples to make cider. The roadsides are littered with them the autumn winds… Read more Apples in the Archives
Earlier in the year Dorset History Centre had two work experience students join us for a month. In this blog, Maddie talks us through some of the more interesting records she found in the Herrison collection… — During my work placement at DHC, I indexed patient files from a Herrison Hospital case book. This was… Read more The Patients of Herrison Hospital
Volume 9 of Hutchin’s Extra Illustrated is the thinnest volume of the series, but still has plenty of interesting additions! The first item we wanted to mention was a cartoon entitled ‘A trip from Wareham to Uxbridge by Worcester, or, Many a slip between the cup and the lip’. There have been several political cartoons… Read more Desertion, Drinks and a Diarist
Earlier in the year Dorset History Centre had two work experience students join us for a month. In the second of three blogs they have written, Maddie talks us through her experience… — As part of my second year of Museum Studies at Reading University, I undertook a work placement at DHC, in particular indexing… Read more Work Experience and Herrison Hospital
In a previous blog, our volunteer Clare discussed working on the ‘grade 2’ railway plans, and explained how the conservation grading system works. Here, Jenny, our Conservator, takes us through what is required for those plans graded 3 and 4, those with significant damage or active deterioration. — Of the original 132 railway plans, there… Read more Tough Grades: Conserving the Railway Plans
Earlier in the year Dorset History Centre had two work experience students join us for a month. In this blog, Sarah talks us through her experience… — Throughout July I was lucky enough to complete a work placement at the Dorset History Centre. I have studied the different aspects of archiving including public services, cataloguing… Read more Work Experience and Dorset Heritage Week
Having looked at taxes last month, this month we will shift our attention to look at the other half of that famous expression… deaths! Dorset History Centre holds parish burial registers for 300 different parishes around Dorset, but what if your ancestor met an unnatural death that had to be investigated? Whilst we hold recent… Read more Death of a Sailor-man (and other tales from the Coroners of Poole)
Portland, Wimborne and Shaftesbury are the largest places covered by the eighth edition of Hutchin’s Extra Illustrated. The additions for Wimborne include a newspaper article detailing the celebrations held in the town when King George III recovered from his madness. There are also many drawings of the inside of the minster, including one of the… Read more Graves, Grangerising and a man who wore Green
This is a guest blog from Dr Carol Beardmore, of The University of Leicester. Dr Beardmore’s research centres around the role of the land agent and the exploration of rural general practice through the letters and diaries of late nineteenth century practitioners. In this blog, she explores the papers of the Marquis of Anglesey… —… Read more Managing the Marquis of Anglesey’s Dorset and Somerset Estate 1812 -1854
In this blog Colin Divall describes how sometimes the railway plans can help crack open age-old puzzles. Timber was often used for bridges on the early railways, especially when they were cheaply built like the Southampton and Dorchester; Dorset’s first main line. At Wimborne, the River Stour was crossed by a timber viaduct that was… Read more Troubled Bridges over Dorset Water
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