In May, a new touring exhibition opened called ‘Hardy’s Wessex’. Curated by the Wessex Museum Partnership, the exhibition is being displayed across four museums: Dorset Museum, Poole Museum, The Salisbury Museum and Wiltshire Museum. Each museum explores a different theme, and together it is the largest collection of Thomas Hardy objects ever displayed at one… Read more Hardy’s Wessex
Kushti Bok is the voice for Gypsy, Roma and Travelling people in Dorset, and for the last three years our Community Engagement Officer has worked closely with the organisation. We’re hoping that a strong relationship with Kushti Bok will lead to better representation of these communities in the records we store. We’ve learnt a great… Read more Reverend Roger Redding MBE, Chaplain to the Gypsies and Travellers
Language changes over time. As new words come and go and regional dialects fade from memory, the English we speak today is very different from that spoken 200 years ago. Dorset History Centre holds an 1856 election poster from Bridport written, for political effect, in the Dorset Dialect: The author, Jems Mab, says ‘Ich be… Read more Dabbling in Dorset Dialect
It’s always exciting when a truly historic event takes place. Queen Elizabeth II is the first British monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee and is now the third longest reigning monarch in history. Of course, to the British people it’s a perfect excuse to have a party! Let’s take a look at how Dorset celebrated… Read more Jubilations in Dorset!
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