History will be made on the streets of Poole this month with the first performances of SALT, the town’s first community play. With a community cast of around 100 actors and musicians aged nine to 86, as well as many more who have been making props and costumes, building sets and will help with the… Read more SALT: A Community Play for Poole
At DHC we are fortunate to hold many hours of film and video footage featuring Dorset places, events and people form yesteryear. Much of this fantastic history is on formats we no longer have the equipment to play. And the pool of people with the expertise and equipment to transfer original formats to digital is… Read more The Fun of Old Film
If you have visited the Dorset History Centre during June and spent time in the reception area you may have seen the display showcasing some of the many tools, and a few commonly used materials, that can be found in the conservation studio. Our Conservator explains more… — Some of the tools may look familiar,… Read more Conservation tools: a handy gadget to have
June has been Gypsy Romany and Traveller month, and we have previously shared with you various blogs charting some of the challenges in identifying members of the GRT community in historical records. This week we wanted to share the memories of Jean Matthews, a member of the GRT community, about her life at Heavenly Bottom.… Read more Heavenly Bottom: Memories of Jean Matthews (part 2)
June has been Gypsy Romany and Traveller month, and we have already shared with you various blogs charting some of the challenges in identifying members of the GRT community in historical records. This week we wanted to share the memories of Jean Matthews, a member of the GRT community, about her life at Heavenly Bottom…… Read more Heavenly Bottom: Memories of Jean Matthews (part 1)
Throughout June we have shared with you some of the different problems you might encounter when researching your Gypsy Romany Traveller ancestors, and tried to explain why these problems might exist. In the fourth and final part of these blogs, our volunteer has offered one final place you might want to search to find out… Read more Researching Travellers in Newspapers
In our previous blogs we have introduced you to some of the problems when looking for names of Gypsy, Romany and Traveller ancestors, as well as some of the issues of searching through the censuses. In this blog, our volunteer has taken a look at some of the problems the censuses had when recording occupations…… Read more What do you do? The occupations of Gypsy Romany Travellers
Welcome to the seventh 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 – The Lock family and a Hardy connection
In our last Gypsy Romany and Traveller blog, we took a quick look at some of the problems you might encounter when beginning your research into any GRT ancestors. This time, our volunteer has taken a look at some of the problems when searching for people on the census… — One of the many advantages… Read more Missing from the Census
At Dorset History Centre we have a group of enthusiastic, committed, and wonderful volunteers who help us with a range of activities, from cataloguing, to interviewing for oral histories, to supporting young learners, to giving talks. As this week (1-7 June) is Volunteers Week, we wanted to celebrate our volunteers, and share with our readers… Read more Volunteers week at Dorset History Centre
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