Hello, As the first month of 2025 concludes, we felt it was a good time to share with you our retrospective look at 2024 and the work delivered by the Archives and Records Service. What is very clear to us is that despite the ubiquity of digital material and services through which to view it,… Read more 2024: A Year in Review
Last autumn, Jacqui Halewood, Dorset History Centre’s long-standing Principal Archivist retired. We were joined in November by Claire Skinner, stepping into the role with us, and in today’s blog we wanted to introduce you to Claire… — January is traditionally a time both to look back and to look forwards. I would therefore like to… Read more Introducing our new Principal Archivist
At Dorset History Centre, we were recently donated a collection of photographs taken by a local amateur photographer, Gordon Slade. Gordon Slade recorded images of Dorchester and Dorset between the 1960s and 2000s. He photographed many images of Dorchester, Poundbury, and surrounding areas of Dorset as it changed and developed over the years. This included… Read more Photographs of Dorchester by Gordon Slade
This blog started when a recent enquiry led us to look further into the subject of intruder clergymen, who were appointed to Parishes, sometimes against the will of the congregations, at the end of the English Civil War to preach the more puritan form of worship the Cromwell wanted. They were often then forced out… Read more The Chaplyns of Wareham
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