In June, we were joined by Bia for a month’s work experience. She’s now three weeks into that placement, and we’ve asked her to write us a blog about her experience so far… — On Monday 24 June, I started the first week of a month-long work experience placement at the Dorset History Centre. After… Read more Work Experience 2024: Bia
A small collection regarding Askerswell Village has recently been donated to Dorset History Centre. The collection was compiled by Askerswell resident Martin Evans and shows a great insight into the village life throughout the twentieth century. In 1993, Evans created the Focus 1893 exhibition – an exhibition that looked back at the last 100 years of… Read more Memories of a Small Village
At DHC we are delighted to welcome our new volunteer Steve, who has lots of experience of creating interactive online maps. This can be a very engaging way to present material and we are already benefitting from Steve’s expertise as he’s made a map of the various fairs mentioned in Hutchins’ History and Antiquities of… Read more Mapping the Past: Hutchins and Dorset Fairs
Dorset History Centre has a close relationship with Kushti Bok, Dorset’s Gypsy Roma Traveller-led charity which celebrates the travelling lifestyle, the local history of GRT families and advocates for the rights of GRT people, whether settled or mobile or living at one of Dorset’s Council’s sites. While working with Kushti Bok, DHC has been able… Read more GRT History Month: Listen to the story of Gary Orange
Dorset History Centre has been working with Kushti Bok for a while, and we have previously published a range of blogs highlighting their work in the local Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities. June is Gypsy Roma Traveller History month and we have asked Bryan Keet, a member of the organisation, to explain more about one… Read more Mapping the GRT communities in Dorset
Jo Amey first encountered the archive material of Carter and Co of Poole over 40 years ago in their tile factory in Hamworthy. As a final year ceramics student she was researching the history of tiled buildings in the local area for her thesis. She can still recall carefully copying the tile designs from the… Read more The Art of Industry – A Lost Tiled Mural?
Our final blog about the Dorchester men who died in the advance spear-headed on D-Day commemorates two further men who served with the Dorsetshire Regiment. Nicholas O’Connell Nicholas’s parents were Daniel and Kathleen O’Connell, and he was born in Waterford, Ireland. He became a Warrant Officer Class II with the Dorsets and forged a connection… Read more Dorset D-Day: Part 4
We continue our commemoration of Dorchester men who died on or around D-Day by remembering two men who were not from the Dorsetshire Regiment. Leonard Clifford Elmes served with the Durham Light Infantry and Thomas Henry Baker was in the East Yorkshire Regiment. Leonard Elmes Leonard was the youngest of the Dorchester men killed around… Read more Dorset D-Day: Part 3
Of the eight Dorchester men killed on or around D-Day, five were in the Dorsetshire Regiment, including Privates George Adams and Robert Rogers and Sergeant George Ernest Cheffey. George Adams George’s parents, Thomas and Rebecca Jane Frampton, married in Dorchester in 1904, and George was one of their eight children. His siblings were Henry, William,… Read more Dorset D-Day: Part 2
80 years ago, World War Two wasn’t won. Nazi Germany occupied most of Western Europe, and was in full occupation of the French coast, just across the English Channel. British forces had been forced into an ignominious retreat from Dunkirk in N France in 1940. The struggle for aerial superiority had seen British and German… Read more Dorset D-Day: Part 1
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