| Year |
|
Subject |
Speaker |
| 16/01/1989 |
1 |
AGM |
|
| 08/03/1989 |
2 |
Talk on genealogy |
Miss Weinstock |
| 12/04/1989 |
3 |
Visit to Mary Rose |
|
| 04/07/1989 |
4 |
Village houses |
Miss Cunnington |
| 08/11/1989 |
5 |
Sport in Regency Dorset |
Dr Dennis Brailsford |
| 16/03/1990 |
1 |
Recent excavations in Dorchester |
Sue Davies |
| 26/04/1990 |
2 |
Trip to St Fagans Castle, Wales |
|
| 13/06/1990 |
3 |
Cerne Workhouse |
Elizabeth Cockburn |
| 12/09/1990 |
4 |
Under the Greenwood Tree |
Gerald Pitman |
| 16/11/1990 |
5 |
History of St Mary’s Cerne Abbas |
Vivian Vale |
| 18/03/1991 |
1 |
Why Bridport? A history of rope-making |
Anthony Sanctuary |
| 01/06/1991 |
2 |
Visit to SS Great Britain |
|
| 02/07/1991 |
3 |
Glimpses of the Past 1540-1890 |
Neale Dawe |
| 11/09/1991 |
4 |
Halstock Roman Villa |
Ron Lucas |
| 20/11/1991 |
5 |
Dorset Regiment 1702-1990 |
Major Saunders |
| 1992 |
|
|
|
| 1993 |
|
|
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| 1994 |
1 |
Letters from a Black Tin Trunk |
Pam McClintock |
| 1994 |
2 |
Wimborne Museum |
|
| 1994 |
3 |
Walkabout of Beaminster with Beaminster Historical Society |
|
| 1994 |
4 |
Historic Dorset from the Air |
Francesca Radcliffe & Dennis Brailsford |
| 1994 |
5 |
Dorset Aqueduct Walk |
Bill Putnam |
| 1994 |
6 |
Dorchester in its Roman Context |
Sue Davies |
| 1995 |
1 |
Soldiers of Dorset from 1700 |
Maj. John Boulton |
| 1995 |
2 |
Horse Drawn Vehicles Large and Small |
Gordon Hatherill |
| 1995 |
3 |
Visit to Edmondsham (?) House and Gardens |
|
| 1995 |
4 |
Visit to Millhouse Nursery and Clock Museum |
|
| 1995 |
5 |
Six Digby Brothers at Sherborne Castle |
Ann Smith |
| 1995 |
6 |
Dorset Races in the C18th |
Dennis Brailsford |
| 1995 |
7 |
Local Archaeology and Identification of Finds |
Peter Woodward |
| 1996 |
1 |
White Horses and Giants; In Search of Hill Figures |
David Miles |
| 1996 |
2 |
The Home Guard in Cerne |
Patricia Vale |
| 1996 |
3 |
Visit to Bridport |
|
| 1996 |
4 |
Visit to Russell-Cotes Museum, Bournemouth |
|
| 1996 |
5 |
Visit to Sandford-Orcas |
|
| 1996 |
6 |
Smuggling in Dorset |
Dr Jim Davies |
| 1996 |
7 |
Cerne Valley Railway (that never happened) |
Gordon Bartlet |
| 1996 |
8 |
Visit to Eldridge-Pope (+meal) |
|
| 1997 |
1 |
Excavations in the Donyatt Potteries 1966 to 1992 |
Richard Coleman-Smith |
| 1997 |
2 |
Demonstration of Roman & Celtic Dress |
John Smith and Ian Groves |
| 1997 |
3 |
Visit to Mrs Penny’s Cavalcade of Costume at Blandford |
|
| 1997 |
4 |
150 years of Dorchester Railways |
Terry Hearing |
| 1997 |
5 |
Tour of Dorset Redundant Churches |
|
| 1997 |
6 |
Touchyng Witchcrafte & Sorcerye |
Dr Jim Davies |
| 1997 |
7 |
Medieval Wall Paintings |
Katherine Barker |
| 1997 |
8 |
The Other Dorchester Abbey |
Ray Nichols |
| 1998 |
1 |
Roman Law |
Keith Perryman |
| 1998 |
2 |
History of Wareham |
Lilian Ladle |
| 1998 |
3 |
Medieval Kingcombe |
Alan Hunt |
| 1998 |
4 |
Evening Tour of Wareham and Supper |
|
| 1998 |
5 |
Bevin Boys |
Warwick Bridgewater-Taylor |
| 1998 |
6 |
Tour of the Dorset Archives |
|
| 1998 |
7 |
Travels in Tudor Blackmore with an upside-down map |
Katherine Barker |
| 1999 |
1 |
Visit to Dorchester Museum |
|
| 1999 |
2 |
Dorset Country Houses |
Bob Machin |
| 1999 |
3 |
Tour of Redundant and Historic Churches |
John Sutherland |
| 1999 |
4 |
Ancient Watermeadows |
Peter Higgins |
| 1999 |
5 |
Visit to Maiden Newton Watermeadow |
|
| 1999 |
6 |
Life Afloat with Nelson |
Geoff Hunt |
| 1999 |
7 |
Two Sheridan Women |
Dr Alan Chedzoy |
| 1999 |
8 |
Inner Sanctums –Private Business |
Cindy Chant |
| 2000 |
1 |
The Durotriges-Dorset in the Iron Age |
William Putman |
| 2000 |
2 |
Medieval Pilgrims |
Linda Poulsen |
| 2000 |
3 |
Two years in Cerne, the Diary of a School Mistress, 1908 to 1910 |
Elizabeth Brassington |
| 2000 |
4 |
Visit to Dorset County Museum |
|
| 2000 |
5 |
William Barnes, his Life and Poems in the Dorset Dialect |
Dr David Strawbridge |
| 2000 |
6 |
Listening to the Dorset Sound Archives |
Deborah Stevenson |
| 2000 |
7 |
Royal Signals Museum |
|
| 2000 |
8 |
Sherborne and Yeovil, a tale of two towns |
Katherine Barker |
| 2000 |
9 |
Living off the Sweat of Other Men’s Brows –history of early shops in Dorset |
Bob Machin |
| 2000 |
10 |
The Salvage of SS Great Britain from the Falklands |
Malcolm McCleod |
| 2001 |
1 |
The History and Workings of White Mill at Kingston Lacy |
Colin Cope |
| 2001 |
2 |
The Rise of Religious non-conformity in Dorset in the 17th & 18th C |
Dr David Reeve |
| 2001 |
3 |
Fogs, Dogs and Logs |
Ian Andrew |
| 2001 |
4 |
History through the Auctioneer’s Eye |
Garry Batt |
| 2001 |
5 |
HM Dockyard, Portsmouth |
|
| 2001 |
6 |
Tour of St Mary’s Church |
|
| 2001 |
7 |
The Medieval Sound Part1 |
Jonathan Weekes |
| 2001 |
8 |
Evening visit to Wimborne Museum, and Supper |
|
| 2001 |
9 |
Early Dorset on Film |
The Trilith Charity |
| 2001 |
10 |
Morris Dancing –its origins and development |
D Byfleet |
| 2002 |
1 |
The Dorset Landscape –its character and distinctiveness |
Richard Burden |
| 2002 |
2 |
Herbs and the History of Medicine |
Rev’d KS Timbrell |
| 2002 |
3 |
Dorchester Bypass –excavations and revelations |
Roland Smith |
| 2002 |
4 |
History and Role of the Dorset Lieutenancy |
Capt Michael Fulford-Dobson |
| 2002 |
5 |
Visit to Harvey’s of Bristol and SS Great Britain |
|
| 2002 |
6 |
The Fun of Family History |
Colin Dean |
| 2002 |
7 |
Visit to Haynes Motor Museum |
|
| 2002 |
8 |
The 1831 ‘Swing’ Riots in Dorset – a story of agricultural revolt |
Bob Machin |
| 2002 |
9 |
The Swanage Steam Railway |
Peter Foster |
| 2003 |
1 |
Dorset World Heritage Status Coast –our Jurassic Jewel |
Tim Badman |
| 2003 |
2 |
Five Generations of Churchills at Minterne |
Elizabeth Churchill-Snell |
| 2003 |
3 |
Some Dorset Curiosities |
Rob Curtis |
| 2003 |
4 |
Dorchester in the early 17thC- a society divided |
Terry Hearing |
| 2003 |
5 |
A daytime tour of some Dorset Churches –our Christian heritage |
Patrick Moule |
| 2003 |
6 |
Dorset writers –a literary collage |
Liz Merry |
| 2003 |
7 |
An Evening Visit to Sherborne School –a Benedictine inheritance |
Mike Cleaver |
| 2003 |
8 |
Wash Day Blues – a woman’s work is never done! |
Thelma John |
| 2003 |
9 |
Dangerous and Difficult Times: Sherborne, Cerne, the Vikings and Last Things |
Katherine Barker |
| 2004 |
1 |
The Farming Heritage of Godmanstone-farming past and present |
Will and Pam Best |
| 2004 |
2 |
Dorset Maps and Mapmakers |
Dr David Reeve |
| 2004 |
3 |
The 1830 Reform Act and its Impact on Dorset –the Georgian Election Dance! |
Jill Pope |
| 2004 |
4 |
Dorset Customs and Folklore –traditions and superstitions |
Sue Harman |
| 2004 |
5 |
A Day in the Historic City of Bath |
|
| 2004 |
6 |
Medieval Sound Part 2 |
Jonathan Weekes |
| 2004 |
7 |
Afternoon visit to Smedmore House, Kimmeridge |
|
| 2004 |
8 |
The See of Wessex –kings and bishops 634AD |
Ray Nichols |
| 2004 |
9 |
Music in the Victorian Home –how it all began |
Gordon Bartlet |
| 2005 |
1 |
A Portrait of Cerne a 100 years ago |
Patricia Vale |
| 2005 |
2 |
How to Trace the History of your house |
Jenny Potter |
| 2005 |
3 |
Anglo-Zulu Wars of 1879 |
Peter Smith/George M |
| 2005 |
4 |
Receiver of Wreck – dealing with Wreckage and salvage |
Sophia Exelby |
| 2005 |
5 |
Monmouth Rebellion of 1685 |
Paul Pickering |
| 2005 |
6 |
Tyntesfield House (NT) |
|
| 2005 |
7 |
A Hazy History of Port |
Colin Anderson |
| 2005 |
8 |
West Country Parsons |
Jill Bryant |
| 2005 |
9 |
Dorset and Trafalgar |
Terry Hearing |
| 2005 |
10 |
It’s a Grave Business – a Dead Interesting Dorset! |
Rob & Cindy Curtis |
| 2006 |
1 |
Roman Dorset – Recording our Historic Landscape |
Nick Griffiths |
| 2006 |
2 |
Another Look at the Making of Cerne Abbey |
Katherine Barker |
| 2006 |
3 |
The Tolpuddle Martyrs |
Peter Welton |
| 2006 |
4 |
Tour of Portland Island |
Peter & Jill Pitman |
| 2006 |
5 |
The Dorset Agricultural Labourer |
Bonny Sartin (Yetties) |
| 2006 |
6 |
The Hall & Woodhouse Story |
Mark Woodhouse |
| 2006 |
7 |
House Detectives – Some Cerne Houses |
George M. and Karen Handley |
| 2006 |
8 |
Dorset Customs & Folklore at Christmas |
Sue Herman |
| 2007 |
1 |
The Book of Cerne |
Dr Michelle Brown |
| 2007 |
2 |
Farming in Godmanston |
Will Best |
| 2007 |
3 |
Prisons and Punishment in Dorset |
Stuart Ware |
| 2007 |
4 |
Visit to Old Crown Court |
Peter Welton |
| 2007 |
5 |
Dorset Village Carriers |
Roger Grimley |
| 2007 |
6 |
Corsham Court |
|
| 2007 |
7 |
Bagpipes – history and tradition |
Logan Smith |
| 2007 |
8 |
Sherborne School |
Dr Hugh Ridgeway |
| 2007 |
9 |
Exploring CHS website |
Karen Handley |
| 2008 |
1 |
Poole Pottery |
Paul Atterbury |
| 2008 |
2 |
Echoes of Dorset |
Dr Richard Hall |
| 2008 |
3 |
Abbotsbury with lots of ????? |
Peter Laurie |
| 2008 |
4 |
Geology at Cerne plus walkabouts |
John Charman |
| 2008 |
5 |
Bridport& its rope making heritage |
Richard Sims |
| 2008 |
6 |
Bridport |
|
| 2008 |
7 |
St Mary’s Church |
Frank Hamblin |
| 2008 |
8 |
Dorset Historic Towns Survey |
Peter Bellamy |
| 2008 |
9 |
Verwood Pottery |
Penny Copland-Griffiths |
| 2009 |
1 |
Aelfric 1st Abbot of Cerne |
Tom Shippey |
| 2009 |
2 |
HMS Trincomalee |
Richard Warren |
| 2009 |
3 |
Gloving in and around Yeovil |
Jean Harper |
| 2009 |
4 |
Historic Gardens of Dorset |
Patrick Taylor |
| 2009 |
5 |
Literary Dorset |
Liz Merry |
| 2009 |
6 |
Corfe Castle/Purbeck Vineyard |
|
| 2009 |
7 |
Photo Day |
|
| 2009 |
8 |
History of Mapperton |
Lord Sandwich |
| 2009 |
9 |
Mapperton |
|
| 2009 |
10 |
Wessex essays Llewellyn Powis |
Frank Kibblewhite |
| 2009 |
11 |
West Country Quakers |
Mick Atkinson |
| 25/02/2010 |
1 |
Manor Houses of Cerne |
Una Russell and AudreyGrindrod |
| 25/03/2010 |
2 |
Alton Pancras -researching a typical rural village |
Colin Dean |
| 22/04/2010 |
3 |
Mary Anning —Fossil pioneer |
Daphne Baker |
| 09/05/2010 |
4 |
Beating the Bounds ofall the Cernes |
Mike Clark |
| 27/05/2010 |
5 |
The folksongs of Dorset |
The Yetties |
| 24/06/2010 |
6 |
Ciderland |
James Crowden |
| 27/07/2010 |
7 |
Afternoon visit to Wolfeton House |
|
| 23/09/2010 |
8 |
Portland Quarry Industry |
John Reay |
| 02/10/2010 |
9 |
Portland Quarry Visit |
John Reay |
| 28/10/2010 |
10 |
BBC films “ Away in a Village”
Cerne at Christmas 1974 |
|
| 25/11/2010 |
11 |
The Clarke family of Cerne |
Peter Clarke |
| 27/01/2011 |
1 |
AGM |
|
| 03/03/2011 |
2 |
The Giant, its history and management |
George Mortimer and Rob Rhodes |
| 24/03/2011 |
3 |
History of Dukes and major finds |
Garry Batt |
| 28/04/2011 |
4 |
History of witch hunting in the SW |
Andrew Pickering |
| 26/05/2011 |
5 |
George Digby-a Victorian land owner |
Ann Smith |
| 29/05/2011 |
6 |
Beating the Bounds ofall the Cernes |
Mike Clark |
| 30/06/2011 |
7 |
The Tolkien Phenomenon |
Tom Shippey |
| 28/07/2011 |
8 |
Visit to Minterne |
Henry Digby |
| 22/09/2011 |
9 |
Sir Ernest Debenham and Briants puddle |
Anne King |
| 27/10/2011 |
10 |
Dorset Place Names |
Anthony Poulton-Smith |
| 24/11/2011 |
11 |
William Cuming 18th century physician |
Dr Peter Down |
| 26/01/2012 |
1 |
AGM |
|
| 23/02/2012 |
2 |
The Spirit of Place in Dorset |
Paul Pickering |
| 29/03/2012 |
3 |
Churches of the Cerne Valley |
Gordon Le Pard |
| 26/04/2012 |
4 |
Frampton: 4000 years of History |
Doreen Smith |
| 13/05/2012 |
5 |
Beating the Bounds ofall the Cernes |
Mike Clark |
| 31/05/2012 |
6 |
T.S. Eliota nd EastCoker |
Henry Merritt |
| 28/06/2012 |
7 |
The Ridgway Hill Excavations |
David Score |
| 26/07/2012 |
8 |
Visit to Max Gate – (details to be confirmed) |
|
| 27/09/2012 |
9 |
The People’s Poet: William Barnes |
Dr Alan Chedzoy |
| 25/10/2012 |
10 |
Dorchester Museum, Past, Present, Future |
Jon Murden |
| 29/11/2012 |
11 |
Necropolis Railway and other unlikely events |
Jonathan Still |
| 24/01/2013 |
12 |
AGM |
|
| 28/02/2013 |
1 |
The Lord Digby—Kate Adie interview |
|
| 28/03/2013 |
2 |
Cerne Abbey Geophysical Survey |
Jonathan Monteith |
| 18/04/2013 |
3 |
An evening walk —settlementand ancient
Landscape (details to be confirmed) |
|
| 25/04/2013 |
4 |
The Dorset Yeomanry |
Captain Colin Parr |
| 23/05/2013 |
5 |
Edward Peacham —
Puritan and Traitor? |
Charles Bird |
| 27/06/2013 |
6 |
Lawrence ofArabia and Clouds Hill |
David Score |
| 25/07/2013 |
7 |
Visit to Brympton (details to be confirmed) |
|
| 26/09/2013 |
8 |
History of the Drax family |
Jane Ferentzi-Shepherd |
| 24/10/2013 |
9 |
Women of Dorset in World War I |
Kate Adie |
| 28/11/2013 |
10 |
Tolpuddle Martyrs |
Anne King |
| 23/01/2014 |
1 |
AGM and Exhibition of Living History |
|
| 27/02/2014 |
2 |
Ship to Shore: Dorset Landscape and Marine Painter John Everett |
Gwen Yarker |
| 27/03/2014 |
3 |
Living Stones: Highlights in the History of Sherborne Abbey |
Canon Eric Woods |
| 24/04/2014 |
4 |
Dorset Shipwrecks |
Gordon Le Pard |
| 22/05/2014 |
5 |
The day Dorchester was invaded by the Germans |
Brian Bates |
| 25/05/2014 |
6 |
Beating the Bounds ofall the Cernes |
Mike Clark |
| 12/06/2014 |
7 |
Archaeology walk with Chris Copson |
|
| 26/06/2014 |
8 |
in the Footsteps of Treves – Cerne Abbas |
Steve White |
| 24/07/2014 |
9 |
Visit to Wimborne (details to be confirmed) |
|
| 25/09/2014 |
10 |
Kingston Lacy: an Undiscovered History |
David Smith |
| 23/10/2014 |
11 |
Lest we forget: Cerne Abbas and those who died in the Great War |
George Mortimer and Duncan Fergusson |
| 27/11/2014 |
12 |
Dorset Folk Tales |
Tim Laycock |
| 22/01/2015 |
1 |
AGM and Lest we forget exhibition |
|
| 26/02/2015 |
2 |
Salisbury Cathedral and the Magna Carta |
Canon Edward Probert |
| 26/03/2015 |
3 |
700 years: a Prison in Dorchester |
Ed Wilson |
| 28/05/2015 |
4 |
The Monmouth Uprising |
John Lello |
| 25/06/2015 |
5 |
Raleigh to Religion: Weymouth and the New World |
Dr. Anne Collier |
| 23/07/2015 |
6 |
Visit to Salisbury Cathedral |
Hannah Paye |
| 24/09/2015 |
7 |
The Community at Hilfield and the Little Commonwealth |
Judith Stinton |
| 22/10/2015 |
8 |
The Saxon Minster at Charminster |
John Askew |
| 26/11/2015 |
9 |
The Druce Farm Roman Villa Excavation |
Lilian Ladle |
| 28/01/2016 |
10 |
AGM |
|
| 25/02/2016 |
1 |
Raleigh’s (Rest)oration |
Ros and Piers Rawson |
| 24/03/2016 |
2 |
When Railway Mania came to Dorset |
Jerry Bird |
| 28/04/2016 |
3 |
The Copy of the 1225 Magna Carta in the Cartulary of Cerne Abbey |
David Carpenter |
| 26/05/2016 |
4 |
Bushes Bottom, the Curious Story of a Forgotten Farmstead |
Will Best |
| 30/06/2016 |
5 |
Black Saturday: Reflections on the First Day of the Somme 1st July 1916 |
John Bourne |
| 22/09/2016 |
6 |
The History of Fordington |
David Forrester |
| 27/10/2016 |
7 |
The Life of Frederick Harvey Darton – Cerne’s forgotten chronicler |
Liz Merry and Tom Shippey |
| 24/11/2016 |
8 |
The Giant: Prehistoric or More Recent? The 1996 Symposium Revisited |
Katherine Barker |
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| 23/02/2017 |
1 |
The Lost Village of Tyneham |
Paul Fancy |
| 23/03/2017 |
2 |
The Roman Army in Dorset: Finds, Facts and Fiction |
John Smith |
| 27/04/2017 |
3 |
Dorchester and its Brewery: The Life and Times of Eldridge Pope |
Jeremy Pope |
| 25/05/2017 |
4 |
Beatrice: A Kingston Lacy Housemaid |
David Smith |
| 22/06/2017 |
5 |
The Geology of Cerne Abbas and its Influence on the Character of the Village. (Guided walks to follow) |
John Charman |
| 10/07/2017 |
6 |
Joint visit with CASH to Wells: Bishop’s Palace and Gardens plus Cathedral |
|
| 28/09/2017 |
7 |
The Dissolution of the Monasteries, 1536 to 1540 |
George Bernard |
| 26/10/2017 |
8 |
Milestones and other Waymarkers around Dorset |
Mike Faherty |
| 23/11/2017 |
9 |
The Bristol Slave Trade |
Mick Atkinson |
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| 25/01/2018 |
1 |
AGM and Exhibition |
|
| 22/02/2018 |
2 |
The Wicked Squire of Holnest |
Luke Mouland |
| 22/03/2018 |
3 |
An Imaginary Walk through 17th Century Dorchester |
Brian Bates |
| 26/04/2018 |
4 |
The Romans in West Dorset: What we can still see today |
Steve Wallis |
| 24/05/2018 |
5 |
The Life of Pamela Digby/Churchill/Harriman (To be held at Minterne House) |
Henry Digby |
| 28/06/2018 |
6 |
Catherine Granville’s Diary: Cerne’s Edwardian Schoolma’am |
Jonathan Still |
| July7/Aug 2018 |
7 |
Arrangements for a visit to be confirmed |
|
| 27/09/2018 |
8 |
The History of Nether Cerne |
Ed Gallia |
| 25/10/2018 |
9 |
A History of Kingston Maurward |
Tim Loasby |
| 22/11/2018 |
10 |
The Dorset Regiment on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
Chris Copson |
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Thursday 27th September |
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| 24/01/2019 |
1 |
AGM |
|
| 28/02/2019 |
2 |
Finding Pitt-Rivers: The life of Augustus Lane-Fox Pitt Rivers |
Adrian Green |
| 28/03/2018 |
3 |
The Wreck of the Halsewell |
Philip Browne |
| 25/04/2019 |
4 |
The Myth and Magic of Water Meadows |
Kathy Stearne |
| 23/05/2019 |
5 |
The Life of Pamela Digby/Churchill/Harriman (To be held at Minterne House) |
Henry Digby |
| 27/06/2019 |
6 |
Poverty and Migration in 19th Century Dorset |
Jane Ferentzi-Shepherd |
| July7/Aug 2018 |
7 |
Arrangements for a visit to be confirmed |
|
| 26/09/2019 |
8 |
Research findings from members on topics related to the Pitt Rivers sale |
|
| 24/10/2019 |
9 |
The Osmington White Horse |
Steve White |
| 28/11/2019 |
10 |
The Black Death in Dorset |
Mark Forrest |
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| 23/01/2020 |
1 |
AGM |
|
| 27/02/2020 |
2 |
The railway which nearly came to Cerne |
Gordon Bartlet |
| 26/03/2020 |
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CANCELLED due to Covid |
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| 28/01/2021 |
1 |
The Romans in Dorset |
Chris Copson |
| 25/02/2021 |
2 |
Villains, Victims and Tragedies |
Brian Bates |
| 25/03/2021 |
3 |
The Roman Town House in Dorchester |
Steve Wallis |
| 22/04/2021 |
4 |
Hospital Blues |
Luke Mouland |
| 27/05/2021 |
5 |
Dating the Cerne Giant |
Martin Papworth |
| 24/06/2021 |
6 |
Dorset Windmills |
Richard Crumbleholme |
