How to explain November’s Remembrance events to children? Dorset History Centre is proud to be a long-standing member of the Cultural Hub for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, and when we heard that schools were planning an art project to make hundreds of poppies with the ceramicist Maisie Jones, we felt we could add meaning to… Read more The Power of Partnership
Kushti Bok is the voice for Gypsy, Roma and Travelling people in Dorset, and for the last three years our Community Engagement Officer has worked closely with the organisation. We’re hoping that a strong relationship with Kushti Bok will lead to better representation of these communities in the records we store. We’ve learnt a great… Read more Reverend Roger Redding MBE, Chaplain to the Gypsies and Travellers
**This blog post was edited on 30 May 2022 to give the answers at the end of the competition. The competition is now closed. Thank-you to everyone who took part!** — Subscribers to our newsletter may recognise the feature ‘where was this photograph taken?‘ through which we have sent snapshots of Dorset to our readers… Read more Where was this photograph taken?
Are you a budding gardener with some CD cases lying around your house? Before she left us, our Digital Archives Trainee got very creative with a fun project to turn CD cases into a DIY greenhouse! — At Dorset History Centre, I have been working to preserve all the CD-Rs in the DHC collection by… Read more Build your own CD greenhouse!
Could you imagine the song of French birds in Cattistock? The estate-name Chantmarle is formed of a surname deriving from a French place-name ‘sing blackbird’. Brog Street in Sleight, Corfe Mullen, was found to be on the line of a Roman road or strǣt – a demonstration that place-names can be significant for archaeology. Cancer… Read more The Survey of English Place-Names: Dorset – congratulations are in order!
The village of Broadwindsor in Dorset well and truly put itself on the map with the culmination of a community project led by Windrose Rural Media Trust. Artist Megan Edwards created an interpretive map as part of The Place I Love, which celebrates the local landscape and rural heritage. The project included field names research,… Read more Broadwindsor: The Place I Love
Black History Month originated in the USA and was introduced to the UK in 1987. The event recognises that not all histories have been collected and related equally, and that a focus on the stories and experiences of people of colour can widen our perspectives and sometimes provide role models and inspiration for the BAME… Read more Black History Month 2021: The problems with our collections
‘We love the look of your activities – can we try them?’ This was the message we received from the Stability4U group back in January. The group, made up of young adults with mild to moderate learning disabilities, had spotted us in an online directory. They were desperate to get beyond the lockdown and reconnect… Read more Creative engagement in 2021
For three weeks in July 2021 Dorset History Centre has hosted three students undertaking work experience. For obvious reasons, this year has been very different to previous years, with the students having to work remotely for large parts of their time, with the occasional day in the building learning about collections. The students have written… Read more Work Experience 2021: Edna Bolton and the importance of oral histories
For three weeks in July 2021 Dorset History Centre has hosted three students undertaking work experience. For obvious reasons, this year has been very different to previous years, with the students having to work remotely for large parts of their time, with the occasional day in the building learning about collections. The students have written… Read more Work Experience 2021: The Letters of Richard Gossling
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