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British historian Ronald Hutton will give a talk at the Museum of East Dorset to coincide with the Wimborne Militia’s 25th anniversary celebrations.

Dorset History Centre has acquired a hand-written poem by the famous writer which is believed to have been kept in America for the past 20 years.

The ‘Earl of Abergavenny’ was a cargo ship that sank off the coast of Weymouth in 1805. The shipwreck has now been given government protection.

Taking place on just one day, this exhibition at Dorset History Centre displays photographs of summers in days gone by.

A free exhibition at the Dorchester-based archive will feature photos of summer holidays in Dorset from the past 150 years.

Bournemouth University archaeologists have recovered two marble slabs that have been lost for nearly 800 years.

400 people gathered for a memorial service marking the 80th anniversary of a Dorset airfield’s role in the D-Day invasion of June, 1944.

An exhibition detailing the past of Talbot Village is taking place at Bournemouth University from 30 May for one week.

A gathering is to take place at Tarrant Rushton on Saturday 1 June to mark the airfield’s involvement in D-Day 1944.

Excavations at a site at Winterborne Kingston have uncovered the remains of a woman in her 20s who could have been murdered.