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.<\/p>\n
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; conducting and transcribing oral history interviews; and helping to organise and run events. Wendy describes her experience of transcribing oral history interviews:<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving taken early retirement from the Civil Service, I\u00a0do some voluntary work and in November started as a volunteer with the Dorset History Centre. There are many exciting projects to choose from here, but as I am a reasonably good typist it was suggested I might like to type up some hand written transcripts of oral histories that were recorded around the year 2000.\u00a0 So, usually\u00a0one afternoon each week, I visit the History Centre to\u00a0type out\u00a0interviews that people in Dorset have given, telling of their lives.<\/p>\n
These give\u00a0an interesting snapshot of life during the last century and\u00a0I can picture their memories in my mind, rather like reading a book.\u00a0 Several interviews involve people who live(d) in Bradford Peverell, including Roy Slade whose wife Gladys had recently died. Although we do not have Gladys\u2019s oral history, we have a recording of the many tributes that were paid to her by people in the community. It seems she was a much loved individual.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Another recording is of a lady living in Upwey. She lived a quiet country life and was not one for parties or dances. One day by chance she met a young naval rating who asked her out.\u00a0\u00a0They met up for their first date in Weymouth. He invited her to the pub, but clearly she regarded a pub as the height of decadence and so she declined, instead inviting him to come home\u00a0to meet her parents.\u00a0 I am not sure this would\u00a0be every man\u2019s ideal first date, but he accepted the invitation and it must have worked out well as they got\u00a0married.\u201d<\/p>\n
We are very grateful for the time and energy volunteers devote to assisting us in our work. If you are interesting in volunteering with us, please take a look at our current vacancies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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