April 2025

“Our Journal at Winterbourn St. Martins”: Introducing ‘Chota’ the Dog

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Returning to our exploration of a nineteenth-century diary, readers can find themselves back again navigating Berry and Helen’s experience of Victorian Winterbourne St. Martins. If you missed the introduction to our new series on this illustrated and handwritten Victorian journal, you can find it here. After an eventful entry into Winterbourn St. Martins as their… Read more “Our Journal at Winterbourn St. Martins”: Introducing ‘Chota’ the Dog

The records of Adoption and Care-experienced people – preserving life stories at risk of destruction

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Dorset Council has become one of the first local authorities to formally extend the retention period (i.e. the timeframe that documents are kept prior to review and potential destructions) for the records of adopted and care-experienced people.  Until recently, adoption records have had a 100-year retention period after which they may be retained, or equally… Read more The records of Adoption and Care-experienced people – preserving life stories at risk of destruction

Cataloguing the Yellow Buses Archive

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Thanks to the cataloguing grant supplied by the Business Archives Council, Dorset History Centre were able to catalogue the archive collection of Bournemouth Transport Ltd (also known as Yellow Buses). The company began as Bournemouth Corporation Tramways, originating at the start of the twentieth-century with trams and trolley-bus services until they were modernised in the… Read more Cataloguing the Yellow Buses Archive