by Anthony Harrison | Feb 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
The result of the 2024 parliamentary election in the constituency of West Dorset marked a radical departure from the unbroken line of Conservative candidates elected to Parliament from 1868 onwards. It is therefore an opportune moment to review the history of the...
by Anthony Harrison | Oct 7, 2024 | Events, Uncategorized
Here is our outline program, further details for each event will be added nearer the time • 22nd October 2024 – Steve Wallis on Dorchester’s Roman Baths. • 5th December 2024 – Debate on the history and future of Hardye’s School Elizabethan Screen. • 4th...
by Anthony Harrison | Oct 7, 2024 | Events, Uncategorized
DORCHESTER CIVIC SOCIETY VISIT TO HISTORIC MELCOMBE REGIS AND WEYMOUTH Join us in charming out of season Weymouth to discover its rich historical heritage and learn about the buildings which you have never noticed in the past, together with their hidden histories.We...
by Anthony Harrison | Jul 4, 2024 | Events, Uncategorized
Tickets still available if anyone missed the emails – https://www.eventbrite.com/e/924245532267/preview DORCHESTER CIVIC SOCIETY VISIT TO THE SHELL HOUSE AND SHERBORNE HOUSE ON THURSDAY 18THJULY 2024. We have organised this visit as a follow up to Stephan...
by Anthony Harrison | May 30, 2024 | Blog, Uncategorized
In 1588 Phillip II, the King of Spain, arguably the sovereign of the most powerful nation in the world at that time, launched an armada of naval vessels and merchantmen against England, which was then a minor island state. England had renounced Catholicism and adopted...
by Anthony Harrison | Apr 16, 2024 | Blog, Uncategorized
Until the end of the First World War Dorchester would have been full of horses, mounted by their owners, pulling the carriages of the wealthy and the middle classes, hauling goods waggons and the carts of tradesmen, farmers and common carriers and, of course, the...
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