Manorial documents are a rich and under-used source for both local and family historians and are key to understanding life in early-modern England. Contrary to popular belief most manorial documents are post-medieval and written in English, although the medieval Latin documents often get more attention. Stewards, acting for manorial lords, produced a wide range of… Read more Archival Types – Manorial Documents
This is a guest blog from Dr Carol Beardmore, of The University of Leicester. Dr Beardmore’s research centres around the role of the land agent and the exploration of rural general practice through the letters and diaries of late nineteenth century practitioners. In this blog, she explores the papers of the Marquis of Anglesey… —… Read more Managing the Marquis of Anglesey’s Dorset and Somerset Estate 1812 -1854
In this blog Colin Divall describes how sometimes the railway plans can help crack open age-old puzzles. Timber was often used for bridges on the early railways, especially when they were cheaply built like the Southampton and Dorchester; Dorset’s first main line. At Wimborne, the River Stour was crossed by a timber viaduct that was… Read more Troubled Bridges over Dorset Water
“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes” – Benjamin Franklin Throughout Dorset’s history the certainty and importance of tax collecting has lead to some meticulous record keeping. Auditors and future collectors might refer to the records of a tax collection that had been produced decades earlier. For local… Read more Death and Taxes
Dan, Jade, Melissa and Olly, students from Bournemouth University are bringing us a series of blogs about their work with some of our Oral History interviews. Part one: Meet our new bloggers Part two: From Dairy Farmer to the Dorset Game Larder Part three: Of Kings and Countryside — Over the last two terms, we have been… Read more A Journey Through Sound
Within the strong rooms of the Dorset History Centre are a collection of extremely popular and highly used documents. It may come as a surprise to some that these documents are plans of railway undertakings. Whilst they don’t have the immediate visual appeal of an illuminated manuscript or estate map, the information they provide can… Read more Getting the records back on track!
Dan, Jade, Melissa and Olly, students from Bournemouth University are bringing us a series of blogs about their work with some of our Oral History interviews. Part one: Meet our new bloggers Part two: From Dairy Farmer to the Dorset Game Larder — Welcome to the third blog post from the students at Bournemouth University. With the… Read more Of Kings and countryside
Dan, Jade, Melissa and Olly, students from Bournemouth University are bringing us a series of blogs about their work with some of our Oral History interviews. — We’re back in this blog post to talk about one of the interviews which has piqued our curiosity. The interview is with Mr Percy Tory who lived at… Read more From Dairy Farmer to the Dorset Game Larder
Hello there and welcome to our first blog post! Olly, Dan, Jade and myself, Melissa are a team of four students currently undertaking our final year of Public History studies at Bournemouth University. As part of one of our units we have been asked to create a series of historical outputs for the Dorset History… Read more Meet Our New Bloggers!
We are thrilled to publish the next in our series of blogs in which academic users of the Dorset History Centre reflect on the archival collections they have accessed here, and how these have assisted, and added to, their particular research. Here, Professor Mark Stoyle from the University of Southampton discusses some of our Quarter… Read more Professor Mark Stoyle, History Department, University of Southampton
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