At the end of March (which feels a long time ago now), our project to catalogue the records of the Herrison Hospital collection ended. Before she left, our Project Archivist, Sophie Smith, gave us her thoughts on the project and the collection… — Working with a collection as complex and varied as the Herrison Hospital… Read more Herrison Hospital Collection: A Year in Review
Dorset History Centre has been lucky enough to be gifted the archive of Dame Elisabeth Frink, one of Britain’s foremost modern sculptors – this was provided to DHC in accordance with the wishes of the artist’s late son Lin Jammet. Work to catalogue the archive has been underway since October and you will hear from the archivist undertaking… Read more The Frink Archive at Dorset History Centre – an update
In partnership with volunteers from Bournemouth’s LGBTQ+ community, Dorset History Centre is adding twenty-five queer stories to the Dorset Sound Archive. DHC has worked carefully over eighteen months to shape a project and are delighted with the results. Trained volunteers, who collaborated on the design of the project, spoke with people from their early twenties… Read more 25 People Speak Out!
David Johnston-Smith, the project archivist currently cataloguing the Dame Elisabeth Frink archival collection, was delighted to be invited to speak at a recent Christie’s Lates event on 13th January in London. David was due to be introducing the archival collection to the large and enthusiastic crowd these popular evening events encourage, whilst Annette Ratuszniak, former… Read more Dame Elisabeth Frink at Christie’s Lates
The exciting one-year project to catalogue the collection of sculptor Dame Elisabeth Frink, who spent the last 16 years of her life in Dorset at Woolland, near Blandford Forum, has now been running for three months. Project Archivist, David Johnston-Smith, has now designed a catalogue structure and is currently working his way through the approximately… Read more The Dame Elisabeth Frink Project – an update
In April, Dorset History Centre appointed Sophie Smith as the Archivist to catalogue the Herrison Hospital collection. In this blog she gives us her thoughts on her first three months… — When this Wellcome Trust funded project at Dorset History Centre began we were tasked with structuring the catalogue of the Herrison Hospital collection. The… Read more Herrison Hospital Project Update
Dorset History Centre has been working with the recent Voices from 1918 project which has been utilising sources within our collections to tell the tales of the people in the last year of the Great War and its aftermath. — Sometimes we can use an account of an event recorded in a diary and do more… Read more “Did they get a U-Boat?”
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
We have uncovered some incredible documents whilst working on the Unlocking the Bankes Archive project. It felt a bit greedy to keep them to ourselves, so we thought we’d share these fascinating stories with all of you!
Dorset History Centre is taking part in Archiving the Arts, a national strategy to collect and preserve the records of artists.
We already hold the archives of world-renowned sculptors Mary Spencer Watson and Dame Elisabeth Frink.
By collecting the key records of the activities of artists and arts organisations we will ensure that they become part of the county’s permanent historical record.
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