Hello, As the first month of 2025 concludes, we felt it was a good time to share with you our retrospective look at 2024 and the work delivered by the Archives and Records Service. What is very clear to us is that despite the ubiquity of digital material and services through which to view it,… Read more 2024: A Year in Review
On Wednesday 27 November, Dorset History Centre’s Principal Archivist, Jacqui Halewood, will be celebrating her last day with the service before a very well-earned retirement. Jacqui has been with the service since 2000, and have overseen a lot of change in her time at DHC! Before she finishes, we asked her to reflect on her… Read more Jacqui Halewood: The end of an era!
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
One of Dorset History Centre’s team has recently passed a driving test, and this, coupled with a photograph from the Herbert Collection inspired a deeper look into the archive! — The roads of Weymouth have certainly changed and so too have motor vehicles and driving lessons. It was amusing to see these two rather large… Read more Driving – how times have changed!
At DHC our trained volunteers are usually collecting oral history interviews and we are usually working with several community projects which are planning a project or recording. However, with the advent of Covid these activities ceased. We have followed advice from the Oral History Society and The British Library and have thrown the efforts of remote volunteers into transcription and analysis. The volunteers have done… Read more To Record or Not to Record…
Many of us these days are used to seeing rabbits, in our countryside, alongside roads, and even owning them as pets. However, during the Pleistocene Age rabbits became extinct here surviving the Ice Age only in warmer climes. They were reintroduced into Britain following the Norman conquest, with the Norman’s valuing them for the table… Read more Not Quite Peter Rabbit or Benjamin Bunny: Coney Farming in Dorset
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