On Wednesday 30 April 2025 we will be hosting the first of an ongoing series of short talks about some of the fascinating records within the archives at Dorset History Centre. So what’s going on? Once a month Dorset History Centre will be hosting a short talk about some of our records led by one… Read more Join us for “From the Stacks”
How to explain November’s Remembrance events to children? Dorset History Centre is proud to be a long-standing member of the Cultural Hub for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, and when we heard that schools were planning an art project to make hundreds of poppies with the ceramicist Maisie Jones, we felt we could add meaning to… Read more The Power of Partnership
Kushti Bok is the voice for Gypsy, Roma and Travelling people in Dorset, and for the last three years our Community Engagement Officer has worked closely with the organisation. We’re hoping that a strong relationship with Kushti Bok will lead to better representation of these communities in the records we store. We’ve learnt a great… Read more Reverend Roger Redding MBE, Chaplain to the Gypsies and Travellers
‘We love the look of your activities – can we try them?’ This was the message we received from the Stability4U group back in January. The group, made up of young adults with mild to moderate learning disabilities, had spotted us in an online directory. They were desperate to get beyond the lockdown and reconnect… Read more Creative engagement in 2021
“Take Your Time” was a Health and Wellbeing Legacy funded project which aimed to improve well-being for those living with dementia.
Dorset History Centre (DHC) had a Reminiscence Worker, funded for 9 months by the Olympic Legacy Fund. (more…)
Amy Ridgway shares her experience of working at Dorset History Centre during a placement for her history PhD. My usual use of Dorset History Centre (DHC) is as a researcher in the search room. As a history PhD student at the University of Exeter, I have been using documents from the Bankes Archive, namely account… Read more On the other side of the desk
Our archivist working on the Poole Borough Archive sheds some light on her daily activities. A dual role I have two roles at Dorset History Centre – from Monday to Wednesday I am the Project Archivist responsible for sorting and cataloguing the Poole Borough Archive. This is quite a job as the collection includes over 1500… Read more A day in the life of a cataloguing archivist
Find out what our Archive Collections Manager gets up to on a ‘typical’ day. As the Collections Manager at the Dorset History Centre I have many different jobs which mean that I never have a ‘typical’ day. Most of my duties revolve around taking in new documents, listing them and making them accessible in our… Read more A day in the life of an archivist
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