Welcome to our ‘at a glance’ review of 2022 across Archives and Records. The service has explored new ways of connecting people to information and cultural heritage both physically and digitally. We continue to operate in a mixed economy of archival material; whilst digital material – both ‘born digital’ and digitised – continues to grow… Read more Review of the year: 2022
While it is true that this iconic Christmas carol would begin and end with a partridge in a pear tree, the truth is Dorset possess their own interpretation. The evidence of this fact is backed up in “Dorsetshire Folk-Lore” by John Symonds Udal, on (page 80) where the carol begins and ends with “a sprig… Read more The 12 Days of Dorset Christmas!
— Everyone at Dorset History Centre wishes you a very Merry Christmas, and a peaceful New Year! We look forward to welcoming you to DHC in 2023! — —
Dorset History Centre (DHC) was constructed in 1991. Since then, it has provided an excellent, purpose-built home for the county’s archival and local studies resources – with records spanning well over 1000 years. The service manages a wealth of material in a wide variety of formats both physical and digital which provide evidence of our… Read more Tell us what you think of Dorset History Centre!
A crowdfunding appeal by Dorset History Centre and partners Dorchester is home to the finest archive of material by and about Thomas Hardy in the world – that is, the primary sources which support and inform any new research into Hardy and his contemporaries. The archive is recognised by UNESCO as a collection of international… Read more Unlocking the Archives of Thomas Hardy – Dorset’s literary giant
Cast your mind back to 2013. That was the year scientists confirmed a skeleton buried under a car park in Leicester was that of English king Richard III; Andy Murray won Wimbledon for the first time; and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge welcomed a new royal baby. 2013 was also the year that we… Read more Working Together to Preserve our Digital Heritage
The idea of a restful Christmas and New Year period is one that is relatively recent. For a long period of time, Christmas was a working date, and life carried on. To reflect this, over the next week we will be bringing you a series of some short (and one long) stories, all related to… Read more Life Goes On Over Christmas…
D-DPA/1/SHA/77: Shaftesbury, 1964 Everyone at Dorset History Centre would like to wish you a Merry Christmas, and a peaceful new year. We would like to thank-you for your ongoing support throughout 2021, and we look forward to welcoming you to DHC in 2022!
In January, and despite all that is currently happening in the world, we welcomed a new member of staff to our team… — Hi everyone! My name’s Eimear and I am one of eight trainees in the third and final cohort of The National Archives Bridging the Digital Gap scheme. The eight of us have… Read more Meet our new Bridging The Digital Gap Trainee!
Thanks to the generosity of donors including the V&A purchase fund and the Friends of the National Libraries , DHC was fortunate enough to acquire a substantial new collection of material created by or relating to Dorset’s literary titan Thomas Hardy. We thought that it would be good to share a little more information about the purchase and to explain a little more about why… Read more Thomas Hardy – exploring a new collection (part 1)
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