Dan, Jade, Melissa and Olly, students from Bournemouth University are bringing us a series of blogs about their work with some of our Oral History interviews. — We’re back in this blog post to talk about one of the interviews which has piqued our curiosity. The interview is with Mr Percy Tory who lived at… Read more From Dairy Farmer to the Dorset Game Larder
Hello there and welcome to our first blog post! Olly, Dan, Jade and myself, Melissa are a team of four students currently undertaking our final year of Public History studies at Bournemouth University. As part of one of our units we have been asked to create a series of historical outputs for the Dorset History… Read more Meet Our New Bloggers!
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!
Having been in post as Dorset History Centre’s Archive Learning Officer for over a year now, I have heard my fair share of gasps and exclamations from pupils entering the archive repositories for the first time. But, for pure creativity, this one has to be my favourite: “Wow, it’s just like Mr Ollivander’s Wand shop!”… Read more Have you been spellbound by the archives?
Treswell’s Survey contains the first pictorial description of Corfe Castle, alongside a series of beautiful maps of Dorset, but their full charm could not be accessed due to the volume in which they were bound. Our Conservator describes releasing the maps so they could be justly appreciated. The Treswell survey, ‘Maps of Dorsetshire’, is a… Read more Bankes Archive: Releasing Treswell’s survey
A newly catalogued letter reveals the desperate measures employed by King Charles I to raise much needed funds in the years leading up to the Civil War. Royal connections One of the best known events to take place in Dorset during the Civil War was the siege at Corfe Castle. The castle had been purchased… Read more Cash Flow Problems and the Civil War
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