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Gipsy Moth IV will be at Buckler’s Hard for the 50th anniversary of Sir Francis…
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Plumber-turned-palaeontologist awarded Honorary Doctorate
Dorset plumber Steve Etches has received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Southampton to…
Lifting the lid on Fray Bentos
On the anniversary of the Third Battle of Ypres, Passchendaele, 22 August 1917, the Tank…
Former Canford pupil speaks at Passchendaele 100th anniversary service
Rupert Talfourd Cook, whose great great grandfather was killed in action, took part in the…
Herbert collection of Weymouth’s social history saved from ‘vinegar syndrome’ with grant
A grant awarded by TownsWeb Archiving will be used by Dorset History Centre to digitise…
New Tutankhamun shabti figures can be seen in Dorchester for the first time to commemorate 30 year milestone
To commemorate the 30th anniversary of The Tutankhamun Exhibition in Dorchester, two specially commissioned replicas…
Bournemouth college turns clock back millions of years to become Jurassic Harewood
Students at Harewood College went back to Jurassic times and created a giant dinosaur sculpture…
Unique Victorian steam locomotive arrives on Swanage Railway thanks to the National Railway Museum
A unique Victorian steam locomotive that escaped the scrapman’s cutting torch has arrived at the…
Rare locomotive that starred on stage in ‘The Railway Children’ has been transferred to Swanage Railway
A unique Victorian steam locomotive that escaped the cutting torch thanks to the centenary of…
Shake up in the dinosaur world as new theory suggests they could have originated in Britain and their classifications may be wrong
A radical new theory suggests the first dinosaurs may have originated in the northern hemisphere,…