Year | Subject | Speaker | |
08/03/1989 | 1 | Talk on genealogy | Miss Weinstock |
04/07/1989 | 3 | Village houses | Miss Cunnington |
08/11/1989 | 4 | Sport in Regency Dorset | Dr Dennis Brailsford |
16/03/1990 | 1 | Recent excavations in Dorchester | Sue Davies |
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 |
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 | unavailable | ||
1993 | unavailable | ||
1994 | 1 | Letters from a Black Tin Trunk | Pam McClintock |
1994 | 4 | Historic Dorset from the Air | Francesca Radcliffe & Dennis Brailsford |
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 | 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 | 6 | Smuggling in Dorset | Dr Jim Davies |
1996 | 7 | Cerne Valley Railway (that never happened) | Gordon Bartlet |
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 | 4 | 150 years of Dorchester Railways | Terry Hearing |
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 | 5 | Bevin Boys | Warwick Bridgewater-Taylor |
1998 | 7 | Travels in Tudor Blackmore with an upside-down map | Katherine Barker |
1999 | 2 | Dorset Country Houses | Bob Machin |
1999 | 4 | Ancient Water Meadows | Peter Higgins |
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 | 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 | 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 | 7 | The Medieval Sound Part1 | Jonathan Weekes |
2001 | 9 | Early Dorset on Film | Trilith (now Windrose) |
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 | 6 | The Fun of Family History | Colin Dean |
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 | 6 | Dorset writers –a literary collage | Liz Merry |
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 | 6 | Medieval Sound Part 2 | Jonathan Weekes |
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 | 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 | 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 Godmanstone | Will Best |
2007 | 3 | Prisons and Punishment in Dorset | Stuart Ware |
2007 | 5 | Dorset Village Carriers | Roger Grimley |
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 | Peter Laurie |
2008 | 4 | Geology at Cerne plus walkabouts | John Charman |
2008 | 5 | Bridport& its rope making heritage | Richard Sims |
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 | 8 | History of Mapperton | Lord Sandwich |
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 |
27/05/2010 | 5 | The folksongs of Dorset | The Yetties |
24/06/2010 | 6 | Ciderland | James Crowden |
23/09/2010 | 8 | Portland Quarry Industry | John Reay |
28/10/2010 | 10 | BBC films “ Away in a Village” Cerne at Christmas 1974 |
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25/11/2010 | 11 | The Clarke family of Cerne | Peter Clarke |
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 |
30/06/2011 | 7 | The Tolkien Phenomenon | Tom Shippey |
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 |
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 |
31/05/2012 | 6 | T.S. Eliot and East Coker | Henry Merritt |
28/06/2012 | 7 | The Ridgway Hill Excavations | David Score |
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 |
28/03/2013 | 2 | Cerne Abbey Geophysical Survey | Jonathan Monteith |
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 of Arabia and Clouds Hill | David Score |
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 |
26/06/2014 | 8 | in the Footsteps of Treves – Cerne Abbas | Steve White |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
28/06/2018 | 6 | Catherine Granville’s Diary: Cerne’s Edwardian School ma’am | Jonathan Still |
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 |
28/02/2019 | 2 | Finding Pitt-Rivers: The life of Augustus Lane-Fox Pitt Rivers | Adrian Green |
28/03/2019 | 3 | The Wreck of the Halsewell | Philip Browne |