This summer’s highly successful Women’s World Cup followed hot on the heels of this summers highly successful Women’s Ashes, which followed last summers highly successful Women’s European Championships. Everywhere we look, women’s sport is flourishing. In today’s blog, our Community Engagement Officer, Maria, has taken a look at some of the history of women’s sport… Read more Women’s Sport in Dorset
Welcome to the eighth part of our series exploring the history of Icen Cottage, Fordington. In previous blogs, we have introduced you to the cottage, shown you some of the earliest documents relating to the cottage, discussed some of the problems when trying to identify the people who lived in the cottage, introduced George Cull as one of… Read more Icen Cottage – Fordington and the Rev Henry Moule
It’s 1763 and if you’ll allow me some artistic license, and it’s going to be a sunny morning. Sarah Cribb, a girl who would be around fourteen years old, probably has not slept. She’s been indentured into a husbandry apprenticeship in Tyneham, from her home in Stoborough approximately six miles away. Whilst this was a… Read more Cribb Sheet – Sarah Cribb’s apprenticeship in Tyneham
As a placement student here at the Dorset History Centre, I was given wider rein with this blog to write about an apprentice of my choice. I headed to the archives of my favourite spot in Dorset, Lyme Regis. In this collection I found the apprenticeship indenture of a seven-year-old boy Henry Lock, whose family… Read more Henry Lock: The ten-year-old apprentice
You may remember that, a few months ago, we posted a blog about two ‘unknown men’ who were admitted to Herrison in 1904. One was later found out to be Horace Edward Scanlan, an engineer from Poole, and the other claimed to be Henry Octavius Keegan, an Irish-American who had gone out with two women… Read more A Man Unknown (part 2)
The Poor Laws existed in England and Wales between the late 16th century and the 20th century in some form or another. Before their introduction, beggars and vagrancy were increasingly viewed as a problem that needed to be dealt with, so a system was created to help the ‘deserving poor’ and punish the ‘undeserving poor’… Read more The Overseers and the Old Poor Law
The history of Tyneham in the present tends to focus on its military turning point during the Second World War, when the villagers were evacuated in December 1943 by the military and were not allowed to return post-war. Even now, councils and associations as far as Portsmouth are in deliberations about how to restore the… Read more 13 Years Old and 14 Miles Out: Ann Gillett, the Husbandry Apprentice
Every box in DHC’s repositories is a remnant of a human experience – from farm accounts to heartfelt diaries. So it’s no wonder that writers, including our supporter Minette Walters, find inspiration in the archives and put fingers to keys to retell stories of times long past. Read on to find out how Sue Ashby,… Read more Historical Plays set in North Dorset
Through four weeks in June and July 2023, Dorset History Centre hosted two students on work experience placements. During this month, they were given the opportunity to learn about what DHC does and how we work. In this blog, Molly gives us her thoughts on the placement… — Hi there! My name is Molly Butcher… Read more Work Experience 2023: Molly’s experience
Through four weeks in June and July 2023, Dorset History Centre hosted two students on work experience placements. During this month, they were given the opportunity to learn about what DHC does and how we work. In this blog, Ben gives us his thoughts on the placement… — Hi, I’m Ben Corben-Hale, a history student… Read more Work Experience 2023: Ben’s experience
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