Whilst the Coronavirus lockdown continues, we have asked our Conservator for some bookbinding activities you can try at home. This is the second of three blogs in which she will show you how to do some book-binding at home… — A part of my job that I always look forward to is running bookbinding sessions. … Read more Bookbinding DIY – Single Section Pamphlet
Whilst the Coronavirus lockdown continues, we have asked our Conservator for some bookbinding activities you can try at home. This is the first of three blogs in which she will show you how to do some book-binding at home… — A part of my job that I always look forward to is running bookbinding sessions. … Read more Bookbinding DIY – Japanese Stab-Stitch binding
We are sharing a monthly look at the farm diary of John Foss, written from his dairy farm in Kingston Russell in 1851. April 1851 The month begins with a standard day for John Foss. On Wednesday 2nd he: Ate breakfast Admired the weather Cut furze and brought some home Changed the cows in Buttermead… Read more The Diary of John Foss: April 1851
In recent times we have published requests for Coronavirus diaries and other media, we have told you more about who we are, and what we do; and we have shared with you an example of what records from centuries ago can tell us about how (or how not) to manage during a crisis. In the… Read more Save your records!
In recent times, we have been developing some activity sheets for children to keep them entertained if their parents are visiting Dorset History Centre. Given the current COVID-19 situation, we hope parents are able to use them at home to inspire or entertain their children! The sheets are available as PDF documents or you can… Read more Something for the kids…
During this period where many of us are in effect house-bound, we thought that it would be useful to revisit the basis on which the Dorset History Centre (DHC) was established in 1955 – i.e. to preserve and make accessible archives and to ask the question ‘what are archives?’ and ‘why should we keep them?’… Read more Archives – what they are and what you can do with them?
The current coronavirus pandemic has brought home to us all how fragile human health can be and also how our lifestyles and assumptions can be completely disrupted by an event of this type. Dorset History Centre holds over 1,000 years of records relating to our county and we thought that it would be appropriate to… Read more The Arrival of the Black Death in Dorset
There are two ways in which we would invite the public to help to capture the experience and impact of the coronavirus pandemic in Dorset. Firstly, it is clear that we are living through highly unusual times and Dorset History Centre, working in partnership with Lighthouse, Poole would like to make sure that our experiences… Read more Covid-19 – help DHC to record this unprecedented event for future historians of Dorset
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
‘Royal Weymouth’ is a four-volume book that we hold within our collection. Like ‘The Extra Illustrated Edition of Hutchins’, it has been put together by A.M. Broadley, but instead of grangerising one book, these volumes are based around several accounts of the Royal visits to Weymouth by King George III and his family. The first… Read more Royal Weymouth, Volume 1 – Cuttings and Correspondence
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