Over the past few weeks, Alastair Nisbet has explained how the Children of World War II project was born, researched, and marketed. In the final part of this small series, today he explains what the legacy of the project has been… — In her stories Jean talks about dancing the Palais Glide along the promenade… Read more Children of World War II – Dancing the Palais Glide
Over the last two weeks Alastair Nisbet has explained how the Children of World War II project took shape. This week he explains what the next step was for the project… — A vital part of any project is getting your work to the audience. In our case getting people listening to our audio dramas quickly… Read more Children of World War II – Getting it out there
Last week we introduced you to the Children of World War II project. If you missed that blog, go and have a read of it here. This week, Alistair Nisbet explains how the project evolved… — Eighty years on, the children from our four schools had a lot to learn. In stepped a wonderful team… Read more Children of World War II – Turning recollections into audio drama
One of Dorset History Centre’s latest accessions is the eight part audio drama series Children of World War Two and the research behind it, including more than five hours of oral histories that went into producing it. At the time of writing more than 5200 episodes of the drama have been streamed. In the first of… Read more Children of World War II – How to make a drama about the Home Front
Back in the Autumn of 2022 ‘The Living Stones’ project took off in earnest after being awarded a grant from the National Lottery Heritage Funding. The driving force who set this in motion was new Bournemouth Hebrew Congregation (BHC) member Howard Freeman, liaising with the Dorset History Centre, the Russell Cotes Museum and the History… Read more Preserving Bournemouth’s Jewish Heritage
Coasts in Mind is exploring coastal change through the lives and memories of the diverse communities around Poole Harbour’s shores and rivers. Hazel and Oliver are excited to share the project with DHC readers in this blog, and to offer training opportunities for young people and youth groups! Coasts in Mind has three main aims…… Read more Coasts in Mind
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
Thanks to the cataloguing grant supplied by the Business Archives Council, Dorset History Centre were able to catalogue the archive collection of Bournemouth Transport Ltd (also known as Yellow Buses). The company began as Bournemouth Corporation Tramways, originating at the start of the twentieth-century with trams and trolley-bus services until they were modernised in the… Read more Cataloguing the Yellow Buses Archive
This Christmas, Project Archivist Ruth Burton and National Trust Intern Emma Allen-White have been looking for all things festive in the Thomas Hardy archive. In Under the Greenwood Tree, Thomas Hardy wrote one of the most vivid and evocative descriptions of Christmas Eve and Christmas morning in fiction. The book begins: ‘On a cold and… Read more Merry Christmas from the Thomas Hardy Archive!
As part of the ongoing Thomas Hardy cataloguing project, we have been joined by Emma, an intern who is working alongside Dorset History Centre and the National Trust to unlock some of the gems hidden in the collection… — Some of you may have seen me at Dorset History Centre (DHC) if you are in… Read more The Empty Rooms Project and Thomas Hardy
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