Recently, we have been working on adding our many uncatalogued parish magazines to our online catalogue. Though we still have a long way to go, we thought now would be a great time to highlight what a useful, and often neglected, resource parish magazines are for both family and local history research. What are Parish… Read more How Can Parish Magazines Help with Family and Local History Research?
Between 2015 and 2018 Dorset History Centre undertook the ‘Unlocking the Bankes archive‘ project. During the life of this project, staff and volunteers contributed well over 100 blogs to the project website. By 2024, this project website was no longer functional in the way it originally was, and we made the decision to close the… Read more “One of the most beautiful countries that can be imagined”: Frances Bankes’ trip to the Isle of Wight
Since time out of mind in England all land originally derives from the King or Queen. It is therefore not surprising that some of the earliest surviving records in this country are charters recording grants of land by Anglo-Saxon monarchs. Only about two hundred original, authentic Anglo-Saxon charters are believed to survive, although about a… Read more A Rare Glimpse of Anglo-Saxon England at Dorset History Centre
Last year we introduced you to Emma, who has been working alongside our Thomas Hardy Project Archivist. Since last August, Emma’s project has developed, and we wanted to give you an update… — For the last fourteen months I have been working as an intern on the Empty Rooms Project, a collaborative initiative between the… Read more Hardy and the Empty Rooms Project
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