The Bankes collection is a remarkable assortment of records covering all sorts of time periods and subject matters. There are antiquarian records, there are estate records, there are examples of account books, farm records, or personal papers. The oldest thing in this collection dates from 1249, and the collection runs through until the 1980s. In… Read more Digging Through History
Did you know that we regularly receive material to add to our archive collections? Each separate deposit of material at Dorset History Centre is called an accession. Here are a selection of the new accessions received by the archives during the past months. — D-3480 Acc 12305a – Monkwood Farm map This detailed 19th-century map of… Read more New Accessions: July 2025
Thanks to generous support from Dorset Archives Trust and a grant from the Friends of the National Libraries, Dorset History Centre (DHC) was recently able to purchase some fascinating records and photographs relating to the naval and maritime history of Portland (reference D-3155). Within the material is a series of photographs, some of them in… Read more Portland – the building of a breakwater
On Saturday 26 July 2025 Dorset History Centre will be hosting an all-day conference about the history of railways in Dorset. The conference is free to attend, but we have a maximum capacity in our lecture room, so need to be booked ahead of time. You can book your tickets here. **Please be aware that… Read more Rail 200: Dorset On Rail
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