The twelfth and final volume of Hutchins Extra Illustrated contains fewer parishes than the preceding volumes as many of its pages are made up of the appendices and index, but there are still many interesting items to be found in it. — There is a large amount of material relating to Milton Abbas, including a… Read more An Abbey, the Arts, and the Athelhampton Ape
Christmas is a time where there are so many connotations, through so many associated words that it becomes impossible to read some words in any other context. These keywords, such as “snow”, “Santa”, or “Slade” are all things one can use to search the catalogue of Dorset History Centre. As we looked through our holdings… Read more Dorset History Centre’s Alternative Christmas Highlights!
Part of life at Herrison Hospital involved actively encouraging patients to interact with each other and staff, so that the hospital felt more like a community for the patients. In fact, patients who were deemed fit and able by a doctor would be given jobs within the Hospital such as working in the kitchen, laundry… Read more Christmas at Herrison Hospital
Sherborne is the focus of most of the 11th volume of Hutchin’s Extra illustrated. Numerous pictures of Sherborne Abbey and Castle are included, along with portraits of some of the town’s most illustrious inhabitants such as Sir Walter Raleigh and the Digby family. — Not all of those mentioned in this volume have such a… Read more Courtiers, Criminals and Cuttings
‘They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, not the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.’ — Remembrance Day this year will mark 101 years since the end of World War I, and with this… Read more The Act of Remembrance
Volume 10 of Hutchin’s Extra Illustrated mainly focuses on North Dorset and includes Shaftesbury, Gillingham and Cerne Abbas. — The volume contains a large amount of material connected with the Earls of Shaftesbury, including letters, portraits, printed leaflets and a poster advertising some music composed in honour of the Countess of Shaftesbury and her daughter… Read more Music, medical miracles, and mills
It’s that time of year again when it seems there are apples everywhere. People lucky enough to have fruit trees in their back garden leave out boxes of the fruit begging passers-by to “Help yourself”! Whole village communities club together their surplus apples to make cider. The roadsides are littered with them the autumn winds… Read more Apples in the Archives
Earlier in the year Dorset History Centre had two work experience students join us for a month. In this blog, Maddie talks us through some of the more interesting records she found in the Herrison collection… — During my work placement at DHC, I indexed patient files from a Herrison Hospital case book. This was… Read more The Patients of Herrison Hospital
Volume 9 of Hutchin’s Extra Illustrated is the thinnest volume of the series, but still has plenty of interesting additions! The first item we wanted to mention was a cartoon entitled ‘A trip from Wareham to Uxbridge by Worcester, or, Many a slip between the cup and the lip’. There have been several political cartoons… Read more Desertion, Drinks and a Diarist
Having looked at taxes last month, this month we will shift our attention to look at the other half of that famous expression… deaths! Dorset History Centre holds parish burial registers for 300 different parishes around Dorset, but what if your ancestor met an unnatural death that had to be investigated? Whilst we hold recent… Read more Death of a Sailor-man (and other tales from the Coroners of Poole)
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