Talk will reveal how gladiators might have fought in Dorset…
A CHISELLED man, complete with weapons, faces off against a snarling wild beast as thousands of enraptured fans look…
Tom Holland to give talk on the fighting history of Rome during Dorchester visit
FAMED historian Tom Holland will be in Dorset next month to give a talk on the fighting past of…
Sherborne Almshouse work continues with £22,000 window conservation
A £22,000 plan to conserve Victorian windows at Sherborne Almshouse has been completed. The scheme has seen windows removed for…
Lewis Hamilton’s first single-seater racing car on show in Somerset
A RACING car that played a pivotal role in the burgeoning career of a teenage Lewis Hamilton has gone…
How a lady and her dress tell a story of Somerset and Dorset in the 1800s
A LADY sits proudly, if somewhat shyly, in a chair, smiling for the camera. The picture, taken in the mid…
The clocks go back this weekend – spare a thought for Stourhead…
ON Sunday morning (October 27), most of us will be scrambling around, trying to work out how to change…
Where you can get your special Poppy Appeal pint glass in aid of the RBL
MANY of us – in our unruly teenage years perhaps – may have taken a pint glass we liked…
Piece of Thomas Hardy history back in Dorset after two decades across the Atlantic
A PIECE of Dorset’s literary heritage has returned to the county after it went up for sale in the…
Listed Warminster building demolished after long-running legal battle
AN ‘unsafe’ listed building in Warminster town centre has been demolished. The move came after legal action was taken against…
Take a step back into Dorset’s past at free exhibition this weekend
CHILDREN are playing happily – two hold a skipping rope, others grapple, as youngsters do. It is a scene from…
