This past summer Bridport Arts Centre held a season of events titled “Queer in The Countryside”, for which BAC’s Director, Claire Tudge, set out ‘to demonstrate and acknowledge their unique position as a multidisciplinary arts centre to use storytelling to highlight issues and contribute towards importance societal discourse.’ In this blog, artist Paul Sammut talks… Read more Lisome Rum
We bet you think the next line would be ‘walks into a bar’, but this is actually the current landscape of statues displayed across Dorchester. Looking at the Southwest, including Cornwall, Devon and Dorset, there are only three full-size statues celebrating named women in a whopping 13,000 square kilometres of the UK. In addition, over… Read more Six men, one dog, a Queen, and a horse!
In January 2024 Dorset History Centre will be undertaking two collections weeks and we will be closed to the public for this period. Whilst staff and volunteers will be getting on with the important work we have to do during this period, we have this two-part guest blog for our readers, from Martin Gething. On… Read more Queen v Frampton [Part 2]
In January 2024 Dorset History Centre will be undertaking two collections weeks and we will be closed to the public for this period. Whilst staff and volunteers will be getting on with the important work we have to do during this period, we have this two-part guest blog for our readers, from Martin Gething… —… Read more Queen v Frampton [Part 1]
In January 2024 Dorset History Centre will be undertaking two collections weeks and we will be closed to the public for this period. Whilst staff and volunteers will be getting on with the important work we have to do during this period, we have a couple of guest blogs for our readers, starting with this… Read more All There Waiting
In two previous posts, we introduced you to the author John Fowles, and gave you some background on his life, and discussed his interest in Lyme Regis’ own Mary Anning. This time, DHC volunteer Graham takes a deeper look into Fowles’ life and how he settled in Lyme Regis… — How He Came to Live… Read more John Fowles (Part 3)
As part of his passion for physics, Purbeck School Sixth Form Student Max de Wit has been undertaking research on AEE Winfrith and helping Dorset History Centre to develop the historical record for the site. Recently, Max had the privilege of recording an oral history with Ian Upshall, whose working career was centred in the… Read more Cutting Edge Scientific Research in the Heart of Hardy’s “Blasted Heath”
The Milton Abbas Local History Group have transcribed 60,000 records of all the existing Overseers of the Poor Account books for Milton Abbas from 1771 to 1836, and are finding that the records are a fantastic resource for researching local and family history. The account book in the Dorset History Centre covers the years 1818… Read more Overseers of the Poor Account Books
A newly-published book takes an original look at Chesil Beach. Chesil Beach is unique: a bank of pebbles stretching for sixteen miles along the Dorset coast, from the Isle of Portland to West Bay. It seems a lonely landscape, deserted and unchanging. Yet there have always been people living here, concealed behind the shingle barrier.… Read more Chesil Beach: a peopled solitude
A Milton Abbas Local History Group member has discovered that in 1803 six men from Milton Abbas were charged under the Combination Act of 1800, for conspiring with others to increase wages. Their names and sentences of two months hard labour are given in the Dorchester Gaol Prisoners in Custody registers for March 1803. Described… Read more The Milton Abbas Martyrs
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