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The Dorset Regiment: An Abridged Retelling of Regimental and Uniform History (Part 3: The 20th Century)

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Welcome to our third blog looking at regimental uniforms. If you have missed them, our blogs looking at the 18th Century and 19th Century are available to read elsewhere. This time we are going to look at developments from 1899 until the Dorset Regiment merged with the Devonshire Regiment in 1958. Although the 1st Battalion… Read more The Dorset Regiment: An Abridged Retelling of Regimental and Uniform History (Part 3: The 20th Century)

Plans From a Planning Department: Part 1

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Earlier in the year, two of our volunteers Dave and Adrian, completed work on listing a large pile of previously unknown architectural plans and drawings from Weymouth. In this blog, Dave explains a little more about what was in the pile… — Over recent months, along with another volunteer Adrian, I have been listing a… Read more Plans From a Planning Department: Part 1

Past Lives, Future Proofed (2)

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Back in April Dorset History Centre was awarded £603,777 by the National Lottery Heritage Fund to begin to develop a project which will result in the expansion of our repositories, the re-shaping of the public entrance to the building, and a whole range of outreach and engagement activities. Since then things have been busy, as… Read more Past Lives, Future Proofed (2)

The Avalanche and the Forest

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Dorset is unsurprisingly rich in maritime heritage given its multiple bays, harbours and coastline that stretches for close to 100 miles. However, that heritage is comprised of a mixed bag of fortunes and we have a newly catalogued box of images of shipwrecks that have occurred along our coast (D-DPA/2/WY/2/9). These are heavily concentrated around… Read more The Avalanche and the Forest