Architecture is one of the many ways people have shaped Dorset’s landscape over the years. As a rural county, Dorset has not often been at the forefront of cutting edge design, but it is the home-place of some influential architects, and the seat of some truly stunning design. A Local Influence These small sketches are… Read more Art in Architecture
Digital preservation is the practice which will determine if and how we access electronically-held data in the future. Sam Johnston, the County Archivist, was recently lucky enough to attend the Digital Preservation Coalition’s awards ceremony in Amsterdam. A real hardship, you might say! Sam was very pleased to be asked – foreign travel rarely features… Read more Going Dutch for digital preservation!
We are open again on the 27th December!
Christmas is a time of year when many people send cards and letters to loved ones and here at Dorset History Centre we have some lovely examples of these. In 1896 17 year old Francis Arthur Marten was serving on HMS Nelson. On the 12th of December he wrote a letter home to his father… Read more Christmas Correspondence
House history is something we frequently get asked about here at Dorset History Centre. There are a whole variety of reasons why knowing about a property can be important, be them legal, academic or just plain curiosity. We hold a range of sources which can help house historians find more information about their property. Maps… Read more Archives A-Z: H is for houses
We are thrilled to publish the next in our series of blogs in which academic users of the Dorset History Centre reflect on the archival collections they have accessed here, and how these have assisted, and added to, their particular research. Here, Professor Mark Stoyle from the University of Southampton discusses some of our Quarter… Read more Professor Mark Stoyle, History Department, University of Southampton
This is the first in a series of blogs we will be running whereby we speak to different academic users of Dorset History Centre, ask them some questions, and thereby gather insight into their interests, and discover how accessing our collections can assist and add to their research. To begin this series, we are delighted… Read more Professor French, University of Exeter
We have uncovered some incredible documents whilst working on the Unlocking the Bankes Archive project. It felt a bit greedy to keep them to ourselves, so we thought we’d share these fascinating stories with all of you!
Dorset Archives Trust will host their annual summer event at St Giles House on 12 July. Nicholas Ashley-Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury, will share stories from his family archives and his project to save the house from disrepair. In recent years the 12th Earl of Shaftesbury has undertaken ambitious restoration work on his ancestral home and… Read more Dorset Archives Trust Summer Gala
At this time of year many of us are spending our free time in the garden. Our collections reveal a passion for gardening going back centuries. Changing fashions Plans for alterations to the grounds at Frampton House demonstrate the changing fashions in eighteenth century garden design (reference: D-SHE/22). In 1778 a survey of the grounds… Read more Archives A-Z: G is for gardens
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