In January 2024, for the first time ever, Dorset History Centre has held a two-week closure period. Closure periods are not uncommon in the archive world, and provide an opportunity for staff and volunteers to spend some dedicated time working on collections, trying to solve known problems, or simply cataloguing newly acquired archives. For ourselves… Read more Collections Fortnight 2024
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
At this time of year many of us are spending our free time in the garden. Our collections reveal a passion for gardening going back centuries. Changing fashions Plans for alterations to the grounds at Frampton House demonstrate the changing fashions in eighteenth century garden design (reference: D-SHE/22). In 1778 a survey of the grounds… Read more Archives A-Z: G is for gardens
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
Volunteers Week (1-12 June) is the perfect opportunity to highlight the wonderful work carried out by a team of dedicated and enthusiastic volunteers at Dorset History Centre. Volunteers carry out a wide range of tasks to enhance the work of the archives. These include repackaging, listing and cleaning documents; exploring stories held in the collections;… Read more Celebrating volunteers!
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