Whist looking in the archives for Christmas Pudding recipes last year we came across this recipe for Bible Cake. The recipe was loose in an envelope marked ‘How to make a Bible Cake’, in the Sadborow Cookery Book, a late seventeenth, early eighteenth-century cookery book. Bible Cake, also known as Scripture Cake or Old Testament… Read more Bible Cake
At Dorset History Centre, we were delighted to have the opportunity to archive the records of Wessex Water and its predecessor companies. With the contract running until April 2027, this has now been a work in progress for us since Spring 2025 and is overseen by our archivist, Emma Blowers, assisted by Collections Assistant, Chris… Read more The Wessex Water Project
This is the first in a series of three blogs about document D1-PH/1, a fascinating book that has been filled with notes by a family from Wareham. We came across this intriguing document whilst researching Thomas Chaplyn for a previous blog. It is a copy of the book “Merlini Anglici Ephermis or Astrological Judgments for… Read more The Chaplyn Family of Wareham and the Merlini Anglici Ephermis
It’s been several months since our last postcard blog. So far, we’ve covered the tourist hotspots of Weymouth and Bournemouth. This month, we’re focusing on some of the older postcards from one of Dorset’s smaller settlements: West Lulworth. As the gateway to the famous geological sites of Lulworth Cove, Stair Hole and Durdle Door, it’s… Read more The Dorset Postcard Collection – Lulworth
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