{"id":1863,"date":"2020-09-07T08:30:39","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T08:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/?p=1863"},"modified":"2020-09-04T09:50:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T09:50:56","slug":"working-with-dorset-county-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/2020\/09\/07\/working-with-dorset-county-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Working with Dorset County Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

In October 2018 Dorset County Museum closed for a multi-million pound redevelopment, incorporating new galleries, a learning centre, library and visitor facilities.\u00a0 Whilst designing the new galleries a number of archival items were identified as requiring conservation treatment before they could be put on display.<\/p>\n

Forty documents that will be exhibited in the Hardy\u2019s Dorset, People\u2019s Dorset and Artist\u2019s Dorset galleries were brought to Dorset History Centre to be conserved.\u00a0 These items include famous names such as Thomas Hardy\u2019s manuscripts and drawings, Mary Anning\u2019s commonplace book, a diary belonging to Sylvia Townsend Warner and poetry by William Barnes, but it also included fascinating documents relating to Dorset life such as a poster concerning smallpox, a volume called \u2018Useful Hints for Agricultural Labourers\u2019 and a hand-drawn map showing preparations for a Napoleonic invasion.<\/p>\n

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Reward poster, before and after paper repairs<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Some of the items just needed minor paper repairs or consolidation of materials, such as this reward poster asking for information about an assault and missing mare.\u00a0 Here, the paper was dry cleaned and tears were supported with Japanese paper.\u00a0 Missing areas were filled in with a sympathetic Japanese paper that tonally matched the original paper but is a shade lighter to indicate that\u2019s it\u2019s \u2018added material\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Spine of Thomas Hardy\u2019s “Far from the Madding Crowd” before and after treatment<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Other items required more interventive work, including this volume of Far from the Madding Crowd<\/em>, where the front board had detached from the text-block and the leather was beginning to tear.\u00a0 The volume required the spine to be re-lined, thus providing bridging material to support the leather tear.\u00a0 This also provided an extension of material to close the broken joint.\u00a0 The green endpaper was adhered back into place and Japanese tissue was used to support the joint.<\/p>\n

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Endpapers of Thomas Hardy\u2019s “Far from the Madding Crowd” before and after treatment<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Mary Anning\u2019s Commonplace Book cover, before and after conservation<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This book belonging to Mary Anning required paper repairs to several pages, additional sewing to support loose sections and a new spine.\u00a0 The spine material was tinted to match the original covering material and was used to reattach the loose boards.<\/p>\n

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Mary Anning\u2019s Commonplace Book textblock, before and after conservation<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Two music books belonging to Thomas Hardy\u2019s father and grandfather are fascinating examples of home-made books and these shall be explored further in a future blog.<\/p>\n

When the Dorset County Museum re-opens to the public, it will be possible to view these and other remarkable items relating to the history, natural sciences, people and arts of our county.\u00a0 Visit their website for more information<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In October 2018 Dorset County Museum closed for a multi-million pound redevelopment, incorporating new galleries, a learning centre, library and visitor facilities.\u00a0 Whilst designing the new galleries a number of archival items were identified as requiring conservation treatment before they could be put on display. Forty documents that will be exhibited in the Hardy\u2019s Dorset,… Read more Working with Dorset County Museum<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1892,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,36],"tags":[82,9,214,109],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1872,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions\/1872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}