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…thus preserving the Georgian architecture for future generations. This illustrated talk by Anne Brown, Learning Manager at the new Shire Hall Historic Courthouse Museum, is free to members of The…
…event is free to members while non-members may pay £6 at the door. The lecture originally scheduled for 04 December entitled A Field of Stars – the history of pilgrimages…
This earthquake was political rather than tectonic. In March 1655 Cavalier gentleman John Penruddock of Compton Chamberlayne led an armed uprising against the republican government of Oliver Cromwell. His followers,…
…to deputise for the regular hangman and conduct the execution of the notorious Ned Kelly. The story of the Amazing Upjohns is free to view outside Gold Hill Museum Library….
…readers could have fun by covering up the newer images and trying to guess where the archive pictures were taken. “You can go around the town with the book open,”…
…2.30p.m. on Tuesday 06 March at Gold Hill Museum. This talk by Sir Sydney, formerly the UK’s Ambassador to both Switzerland and Japan, is free to members of The Shaftesbury…
…on Good Friday and a Viking longship to build on Sunday 02 September. Further details about these and other free events by clicking on the link and by emailing office@shaftesburyabbey.org.uk…
…built in our smaller towns in the 14th and 15th centuries. They were not only centres of government and trade but also the hub of community life, such as music,…
…was not the gentle, part-time occupation portrayed in the traditional romantic image but a major industry that affected the whole of Dorset and many other counties. It involved huge amounts…
…District Historical Society at Shaftesbury Town Hall on Tuesday 03 October at 7.30p.m. The first of the Society’s winter series, this lecture is free to members while non-members may pay…
