Continuing our look at life in the village of Sydling St Nicholas in 1947, these images and annotations tell us of the excellent relationship with the County Medical Officer’s team of health visitors. The health visitors would give advice to expectant and mothers of young children and would undertake health checks on the little ones.… Read more Life Through a Lens: A Post-War Dorset Village (Part 2)
On Wednesday 27 November, Dorset History Centre’s Principal Archivist, Jacqui Halewood, will be celebrating her last day with the service before a very well-earned retirement. Jacqui has been with the service since 2000, and have overseen a lot of change in her time at DHC! Before she finishes, we asked her to reflect on her… Read more Jacqui Halewood: The end of an era!
In February, we introduced our three apprentices on the Archivist and Records Manager course, Level 7 – Lillian from the Records Management team, and Kate and Anna from the History Centre team. As of October 2024, they have completed their first year of learning! Anna has pulled together a retrospective of what they’ve been up… Read more One Year In – the apprentice’s first year
As Remembrance Sunday rolls around again for the UK, at a time of saddening and shocking conflict in Europe, the Middle East and around the world, words can fail us. So, for our Remembrance blog this year we are borrowing from John Berger and presenting a ‘picture essay’ – images to invite your own reflections… Read more Reflecting on Remembrance
In yesterday’s blog, we published an account of the ghost of John Daniel, who died in Beaminster in 1728. His relations and neighbours suspected he had been murdered by his stepmother, and their suspicions were only heightened when the ghosts of John and his mother – and an apparition of John’s coffin – were spotted… Read more The Ghosts of Beaminster: How to Get Away With Murder?
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