The Isle of Purbeck is the focus of the third volume of Hutchins Extra illustrated and many of the additions to this volume are pictures of the spectacular coastline. Numerous sketches and prints of Lulworth, Kimmeridge, Studland and Swanage have been included. — There are also three castles that feature in this volume; Woodsford Castle,… Read more Coastline, Castles and Catastrophe
In this special guest blog, Callum, a young learner who undertook a supported placement at DHC, explores some of our records relating to LGBT+ records held at Dorset History Centre. — The stories of individuals who existed outside the status quo are often heart-breaking, standing as symbols to how damaging existing under such prejudice is… Read more “The Courage of Ignorance”
Dan, Jade, Melissa and Olly, students from Bournemouth University are bringing us a series of blogs about their work with some of our Oral History interviews. — We’re back in this blog post to talk about one of the interviews which has piqued our curiosity. The interview is with Mr Percy Tory who lived at… Read more From Dairy Farmer to the Dorset Game Larder
Tracing its roots back to 1837, Eldridge Pope was the staple of Dorchester enterprise. Upon its restructuring and the development of the new brewery site in 1880 by the new owners Edwin and Alfred Pope, ‘Eldridge Pope & Co. Ltd.’ soon became the largest and most important employer in Dorchester. These were successful times, but… Read more Eldridge Pope: The best beer in town!
It is impossible to list all the additions in the Extra Illustrated Edition of Hutchins, but several items catch your eye as you browse the second volume; the drawing of a maze at Pimperne, a rubbing of a coat of arms alongside sketches of archaeological finds from a house at Langton Long, the account of… Read more Hutchins’ Extra Illustrated Volume 2 – The Pitt family, a piano player and a plague of caterpillars
In our thousands of records there are a wide variety of old jobs mentioned, many familiar to us in the 21st Century, but some which seem slightly peculiar to modern audiences. For this Archives A-Z we thought we would use the letter J to look at some of the more unusual jobs of old in… Read more Archives A-Z: J is for… Jobs of Old
Hello there and welcome to our first blog post! Olly, Dan, Jade and myself, Melissa are a team of four students currently undertaking our final year of Public History studies at Bournemouth University. As part of one of our units we have been asked to create a series of historical outputs for the Dorset History… Read more Meet Our New Bloggers!
February typically marks the end of winter, and leads us towards spring. This transition from the snow and cold of winter into the new shoots of growth in spring is something which is reflected in a wide variety of material held at the archives. William John Bankes was as aware as anyone about the transitional… Read more Spring has Sprung
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
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