Welcome to our ‘at a glance’ review of 2022 across Archives and Records. The service has explored new ways of connecting people to information and cultural heritage both physically and digitally. We continue to operate in a mixed economy of archival material; whilst digital material – both ‘born digital’ and digitised – continues to grow… Read more Review of the year: 2022
While it is true that this iconic Christmas carol would begin and end with a partridge in a pear tree, the truth is Dorset possess their own interpretation. The evidence of this fact is backed up in “Dorsetshire Folk-Lore” by John Symonds Udal, on (page 80) where the carol begins and ends with “a sprig… Read more The 12 Days of Dorset Christmas!
— Everyone at Dorset History Centre wishes you a very Merry Christmas, and a peaceful New Year! We look forward to welcoming you to DHC in 2023! — —
This is the fifth and final part of our series of blogs looking into the life of the author John Fowles through the records we hold here at Dorset History Centre. In previous posts, we have introduced you to the author John Fowles, his interest in Mary Anning, his life in and around Lyme Regis, and… Read more John Fowles (Part 5)
It’s that time of year when we’re all writing lists of some kind or another. Whether it’s scribbled on a piece of paper, typed on to a mobile phone or sent up the chimney there will be lists everywhere. There will be: – Christmas cards to send. What we want from Santa. What they want… Read more It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…
As the festive season gets underway we take a look at a most unique British art form, The Pantomime (oh no we don’t!) The pantomime began its golden age in the nineteenth century, but its origins can be traced back to the Italian tradition known as ‘Commedia dell’ Arte’, a type of travelling street theatre.… Read more It’s Behind You!
This is the third blog on the history of Icen Cottage in Fordington. In our previous blog concerning Icen Cottage we mentioned a bundle of documents concerning the transfer of the Copyhold of a cottage and garden in Fordington known as Dolls Hole and later as Icen Cottage. In that blog we wrote about Ambrose… Read more Icen Cottage – The Masters Family – Too Many John Masters!
How to explain November’s Remembrance events to children? Dorset History Centre is proud to be a long-standing member of the Cultural Hub for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, and when we heard that schools were planning an art project to make hundreds of poppies with the ceramicist Maisie Jones, we felt we could add meaning to… Read more The Power of Partnership
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