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: Women’s Institute War Record
There are a great many sources for information about your family and genealogical advice. If you’re searching a little further afield than Dorset, then the Somerset and Dorset Family History Society might be able to help… — When asked to write a blog for the DHC on the collection of pedigrees held at the Somerset… Read more Somerset and Dorset Family History Society
At Dorset History Centre we are fortunate to be able to work with a large cross-section of different groups. One of these groups is Cranborne Chase and Chalke Valley Landscape Partnership. In this blog, as part of Local and Community History Month, they explain a little more about what this partnership does… — In 2003… Read more Chase and Chalke Landscape Partnership: Connecting our Communities
There are lots of museums, local history groups and other organisations around the county of Dorset. The following is a list of all of these organisations, and how to get in touch with them if you have a query. If we have missed your organisation out, please let us know!
In the collections, Dorset History Centre holds a number of locally published works and manuscripts of Miss Adela Marion Curtis. Miss Curtis (1867-1960) founded a community which existed just outside Burton Bradstock for almost 30 years in the mid 20th century. The members were known locally as The White Ladies because of the flowing white… Read more The Burton Bradstock Religious Community That Almost Never Existed
Following the huge success of my previous attempt at making a recipe from one of the old recipe books held here at the archives, I thought it best to give it another go. As most people are still home schooling, here’s an easy recipe with a dash of history added for flavour (although you might… Read more Cooking the Books (part 2)
Due to the changing world in 2020, Dorset History Centre took the decision to increase the volume and frequency of our blog content so as our readers have something interesting to read on a regular basis. We currently produce two blogs a week, on a variety of content highlighting the work we are still doing,… Read more Dorset History Centre Needs You!
It’s Explore Your Archive launch week! This is a national campaign highlighting the work of archives and all the wonderful things we hold in the collections. Each day this week has a theme – from communication to celebration to light. You can follow along with the hashtags daily on Twitter. Here we will look in slightly more detail at Sunday’s theme of home. Home Home will mean different… Read more Explore Your Archive!
We thought that in today’s blog we would look at some of Dorset’s authors and poets, and also a couple of authors who have been influenced and inspired by Dorset. Thomas Hardy We cannot talk about Dorset authors without mentioning the distinguished poet and author Thomas Hardy. Hardy was born on the 2nd June 1840… Read more Dorset Authors at Dorset History Centre
In October 2018 Dorset County Museum closed for a multi-million pound redevelopment, incorporating new galleries, a learning centre, library and visitor facilities. Whilst designing the new galleries a number of archival items were identified as requiring conservation treatment before they could be put on display. Forty documents that will be exhibited in the Hardy’s Dorset,… Read more Working with Dorset County Museum
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