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- The Portland branch
June ’22
- Westbourne’s fitting memorial to a literary giant
June ’22
- Cattistock
June ’22
- A garden for wildlife
June ’22
- The Dorset walk – Acton, the Priest’s Way and the Purbeck coast
June ’22
- Approaching the magic million
June ’22
- The Dorset walk – Duncliffe Hill
May ’22
- The Blandford riots of 1831
May ’22
- The artist of Abbotsbury Sub-tropical Gardens
May ’22
- Getting around
May ’22
- The staff of life
May ’22
- From Southey to Bryson
May ’22
- Out of the darkness
May ’22
- The Dorset walk – Maiden Newton and Cattistock
April ’22
- A butcher from Beaminster
April ’22
- Slightly foxed
April ’22
- Treasures of Dorset – Anvil Point lighthouse
April ’22
- Curious corners of Poole
April ’22
- Litton Cheney
April ’22
- Dorset’s old stone crosses
April ’22
- At break of day
April ’22
- The Dorset walk – Bloxworth, Bere Regis and Winterborne Kingston
March ’22
- Let’s walk there! – St Augustine’s Well
March ’22
- ‘It has to be about the work’
March ’22
- Inspired by Hardy
March ’22
- The hub of its community
March ’22
- Tarrant Monkton
March ’22
- SAVED for posterity
March ’22
- Dorset in the mist
March ’22
- ‘Making really good beer that people want to drink’
February ’22
- Desert Island Dorset
February ’22
- Toller Porcorum
February ’22
- On winter’s traces
February ’22
- Return to Poxwell
February ’22
- When MGM came to Sherborne
February ’22
- ‘These sheep look like they’ve grown out of the soil’
February ’22
- Lost Weymouth
February ’22
- Flower of hope
February ’22
- Wareham at war 400 years ago
February ’22
- Hardy and Hardy
January ’22
- dorset drive – The Tarrant Valley and Cranborne Chase
January ’22
- Bits and pieces
January ’22
- Kimmeridge’s black gold
January ’22
- Re-inventing the wheel
January ’22
- The anchoress of St Aldhelm’s Head
January ’22
- St Mary the Virgin
January ’22
- Wimborne St Giles
January ’22
- West Dorset and the sea
January ’22
- The Dorset walk – Poole
December ’21
- The loss of HMS Sidon
December ’21
- A light in the darkness
December ’21
- Top of the trees
December ’21
- Ring out, wild bells
December ’21
- Devotion and Dissolution
December ’21
- My Dorset
December ’21
- The Dorset walk, Chickerell and the Fleet
November ’21
- Tom in Stur
November ’21
- ‘The wood speaks for itself’
November ’21
- What it’s like to live in… Yetminster
November ’21
- Creech Barrow – its mysteries solved
November ’21
- A riot of Victoriana
November ’21
- Dorset’s woodlands
November ’21
- Let’s walk there! Wareham Quay
October ’21
- The Dorset Walk – Tollard Royal and Ashmore
October ’21
- Chippets
October ’21
- Dorset’s towns from the air – Christchurch
October ’21
- The cutting edge
October ’21
- Mark’s dream
October ’21
- Bridport and its markets
October ’21
- Powerstock Common
October ’21
- The Dorset Walk – Chaldon Herring and Daggers Gate
September ’21
- Are you Sitting Spiritually …?
September ’21
- A day in the life of Compton Abbas airfield
September ’21
- Force of nature
September ’21
- ‘Everything I’d expect to see and some surprises too’
September ’21
- Moreton
September ’21
- Sixty years of photographing Dorset
September ’21
- Swanage then and now
August ’21
- A fresh chapter
August ’21
- Living by the sea
August ’21
- Treasures of Dorset – Rufus Castle
August ’21
- The Dorset Walk – Golden Cap and Stonebarrow Hill
August ’21
- Sydling St Nicholas
August ’21
- Desert Island Dorset
August ’21
- The Sandbanks of time
August ’21
- Clubmen’s Down, Compton Abbas and Melbury Beacon
July ’21
- ‘The noble game of cricket’
July ’21
- Wimborne inns past and present
July ’21
- Let’s walk there! Rawlsbury Camp
July ’21
- In the same family for 450 years
July ’21
- ‘He does still have an air of mystery’
July ’21
- A garden for all seasons
July ’21
- Sherborne and its independent schools
July ’21
- A remarkable wilderness
July ’21
- Two wheels better
June ’21
- A walk through Weymouth’s history
June ’21
- Three mills on my river
June ’21
- Dorset’s roe deer
June ’21
- The Dorset walk – Tolpuddle and Weatherby Castle
June ’21
- ‘A welcome guide to the visitor in a strange land’
June ’21
- Broadwindsor
June ’21
- A history of Dorset in Objects – The Poole logboat
June ’21
- I’m a Celebrity: Get Me Out!
May ’21
- The Dorset Walk – Netherbury, Stoke Abbott and Beaminster
May ’21
- The wildlife of Wareham
May ’21
- The plaques of Poole
May ’21
- Stourton Caundle
May ’21
- Drawing with light
May ’21
- The bluebells of Dorset
May ’21
- An exciting new era
April ’21
- The Isle of Portland
April ’21
- A family affair
January ’21
- A history of Dorset in objects – A jade axe-head
January ’21
- ‘Everyone likes birds’
January ’21
- Gillingham then and now
January ’21
- The Guttridge files – Signs of the times
January ’21
- Desert Island Dorset
January ’21
- Dorset’s French impressionist
January ’21
- Cranborne
January ’21
- The top ten things to do in Christchurch this winter
January ’21
- Dorset buildings in their landscape
January ’21
- A Southbourne childhood
December ’20
- Dorset Lives – Wareham’s music man
December ’20
- Clouds Hill before Lawrence
December ’20
- Wimborne’s Victorian Christmas
December ’20
- Carry on camping
December ’20
- Uncle Dottery’s Christmas
December ’20
- Why we love Wareham
December ’20
- Bere Regis – What it’s like to live in…
December ’20
- Durdle Door to Weymouth
December ’20
- Chetnole, Stockwood and Melbury Osmond
November ’20
- Oh dear, Dr Beeching!
November ’20
- Anning, Austen and everyday life
November ’20
- Pulling together
November ’20
- Fifteen hours a day for four pounds a week
November ’20
- A sweet shop of a garden
November ’20
- Okeford Fitzpaine
November ’20
- Poundbury – the verdict
October ’20
- Autumn colour in Dorset
October ’20
- The Dorset Walk – Horton and Woodlands
October ’20
- The grape-picking season in West Dorset
October ’20
- The secret lives of San Remo
October ’20
- Still going strong
October ’20
- ‘Looking wet like the sea itself’
October ’20
- Building for the future
September ’20
- A Dorset Village – Winterborne Zelston
September ’20
- Sturminster Newton and Bagber – The Dorset Walk
September ’20
- Icons of Purbeck
September ’20
- Back to business
September ’20
- A Bible of the poor
September ’20
- The birth of the boffin
September ’20
- Littlebredy Walled Gardens
August ’20
- Restored to splendour
August ’20
- Dorset’s Tolpuddle blind spot
August ’20
- Lawrence: After Arabia
August ’20
- Kimmeridge
August ’20
- The West Dorset coast
August ’20
- Having my Cake and Edith
April ’20
- Shaftesbury through time
April ’20
- Dorset Lives – The ‘Lichen Lady’ of Studland
April ’20
- The Dorset Walk – Tarrant Monkton, Tarrant Rushton and Tarrant Rawston
April ’20
- Chaffeymoor Grange, Bourton
April ’20
- A taste for the coast
April ’20
- Beaminster’s industries
February ’20
- Dorset Lives – The history of Horrible Histories
February ’20
- Murder on Bubb Down Hill
February ’20
- Purbeck’s unseen places
February ’20
- Corfe Castle there and back again
February ’20
- Nether Compton
February ’20
- Uncovering the secrets of the Priest’s House
February ’20
- Dorset Walk – Osmington & Sutton Poyntz
January ’20
- Then and now – Poole through time in pictures
January ’20
- Dorset Lives – Frank Roberts
January ’20
- Taste of Dorset – Be of good beer
January ’20
- Dorset’s winter wonderland
January ’20
- Garden design tricks
January ’20
- An unfit monument
January ’20
- Dorset Village – West Lulworth & Cove
January ’20
- Cerne Abbas – Village for sale
January ’20
- Dorset Crafts – Shapely bottoms and well-made bows
January ’20
- Only the ‘real’ Father Christmas wears gold boots
December ’19
- William Barnes’s time in Dorchester
December ’19
- A bridge called 77
December ’19
- Spiritual twins
December ’19
- Dorset house – Smedmore House
December ’19
- The season of bad will
December ’19
- Dorset garden birds in winter
December ’19
- Dorset Lives – Art for art’s sake
December ’19
- Dorset Lives – He walked the line
November ’19
- Art and Craft in glass
November ’19
- Dorset Garden – The art of composing a garden
November ’19
- The Orlando Singers
November ’19
- ‘A pretty neate town’
November ’19
- The briefest of battles
November ’19
- Village walk – Portesham
November ’19
- An early Bournemouth Air Festival
November ’19
- Trees, woods and leaves
November ’19
- Dorset Walk – Maiden Castle and Winterbourne St Martin
November ’19
- Cheyne Weares wildlife
October ’19
- Fun of the fair
October ’19
- The Broadstone collision
October ’19
- Dorset House – The Old Chapel, East Stour
October ’19
- From tragedy to transcendence
October ’19
- The Dorset walk – Monkton to Rushton
October ’19
- Two sieges and a safeguard
October ’19
- The Dorset walk – Thorncombe & Laymore
September ’19
- Life’s a beach
September ’19
- An American in… Shaftesbury
September ’19
- A new angle on Dorset
September ’19
- Our man at Number 10
September ’19
- Windows on the 1950s
September ’19
- Landscapes of the artist as a young man
September ’19
- Whatever Happened To… Chelsea Village
September ’19
- Underground Dorchester
September ’19
- The Dorset garden – Forde Abbey Gardens
September ’19
- The Dorset walk – Burton Bradstock & Shipton Gorge
August ’19
- Dorset almshouses
August ’19
- Dorset artist – Dolphins and Dorset
August ’19
- Dorset’s first newspaper
August ’19
- Mudeford Sandbank – a place of ships and stars
August ’19
- The hospital that came then went
August ’19
- The quiet times
August ’19
- The Friends of MV Freedom
August ’19
- Stourpaine
August ’19
- Read all about it
July ’19
- Dorset walk- Hilton & Bulbarrow
July ’19
- A Dorset garden – Hilltop, Woodville
July ’19
- Enid Blyton, Dorset and its fauna and flora
July ’19
- When news travelled fast
July ’19
- Dorset Village – Abbotsbury
July ’19
- Lyme Regis history walk
July ’19
- Dorset artist – Seeing through stone
July ’19
- Saving lives through rock
June ’19
- The Dorset Walk Duncliffe Wood and East Stour Common
June ’19
- Dorset Taste – Sorbet seems to be the hardest word
June ’19
- Harry Paye: pirate of Poole
June ’19
- Purbeck Artisan Yard
June ’19
- Where every day is the longest day
June ’19
- Salmon tagging on the Frome
June ’19
- Nine favourite Dorset views
June ’19
- Blandford then & now
May ’19
- A dream of bluebells
May ’19
- Dorset crafts – By horn and by crook
May ’19
- Clive Hannay village walk – Batcombe
May ’19
- A Dorset Garden – Wincombe Park
May ’19
- The Dorset walk – Stephens Castle, Pistle Down, Mount Ararat and Wild Church Bottom
May ’19
- Think of a question about Dorset…
May ’19
- Beaminster’s string of pearls
May ’19
- Badgers and a broken neck
May ’19
- A race to the finish
May ’19
- Dorset walk – Sturminster Newton, Manston, Hammoon & Fiddleford Mill
April ’19
- Turkish baths and a fallout shelter
April ’19
- Ticket to Dorchester Jail
April ’19
- A day in the life of a marina
April ’19
- Dorset village – Corfe Castle
April ’19
- Captain Grumpy and the Happy Hooker
April ’19
- Girdlers Coppice
April ’19
- A monumental task
March ’19
- The Dorset walk – Dewlish and Cheselbourne
March ’19
- Longfleet School log
March ’19
- Flying high in Christchurch
March ’19
- Dorset Lives – Slow’s Law
March ’19
- Honour bound?
March ’19
- A Dorset garden – Q, 113 Bridport Road
March ’19
- The Railway Carriage Children
March ’19
- Durdle Door to Chapman’s Pool
March ’19
- The Dorset walk – Bloxworth-Woolsbarrow Fort
February ’19
- Verwood: then & now in pictures
February ’19
- ‘They’ll last for generations’ – Simon Grant-Jones
February ’19
- Ashmore
February ’19
- Dorset Lives – Building for the future
February ’19
- West Dorset winter
February ’19
- Dorset artist – ‘Where land meets sea’
January ’19
- The house that Lewis built
January ’19
- Colin Varndell’s Dorset seasons. Winter: January in Dorset
January ’19
- ‘We want our rights’
January ’19
- Dorset walk – Tarrant Crawford & Spetisbury
January ’19
- Dorset home – The Chart House, Mudeford
January ’19
- The appliance of science
January ’19
- ‘Get up, get back on…’
January ’19
- A sketch of a temperament
January ’19
- Ibberton
January ’19
- A town through time
December ’18
- RAF Tarrant Rushton
December ’18
- Clavell Tower
December ’18
- The Dorset drive – West Dorset top to bottom
December ’18
- Wimborne then and now
December ’18
- Dorset: a farmed landscape
December ’18
- The art of defence
December ’18
- Granny Long’s ‘cock whollopers’
December ’18
- Teacher, carer, author
December ’18
- Smugglers, Dorset and Robespierre
November ’18
- Dorset crafts – Like horse and saddler
November ’18
- Purbeck Workshop
November ’18
- Ferndown’s Superior apprentices
November ’18
- The house that Hardy built
November ’18
- An honour to serve the community
November ’18
- Powerstock
November ’18
- A place of calm reflection
November ’18
- The Dorset walk – Longburton, Folke and Leweston
November ’18
- The Naples of England
November ’18
- Hamworthy: a shoreline stroll
October ’18
- A tale of two castles
October ’18
- The waterway that wasn’t
October ’18
- Dorset Lives – About time!
October ’18
- The Dorset Walk – The Gussages & Ackling Dyke
October ’18
- Dorset Village – Whitchurch Canonicorum
October ’18
- The Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers
October ’18
- Dorset’s October wildlife
October ’18
- Cows, coast and Colmer’s
October ’18
- A country of sunlight – Augustus John
September ’18
- Dorset Crafts – Wheel craftsmanship
September ’18
- An enduring family affair
September ’18
- Dorset worms abroad
September ’18
- Lyme Regis: then & now in photos
September ’18
- A day at the races
September ’18
- Dorset Garden – Lawsbrook, Shillingstone
September ’18
- There’s a bat in my kitchen
September ’18
- A free taste of Dorset
September ’18
- The Dorset Walk – Dancing Ledge, Seacombe and Langton Matravers
September ’18
- Dorset Houses – Bindon Mill
August ’18
- Dewlish
August ’18
- The Dorset Walk – Blackmore Vale villages
August ’18
- Seen from the sea
August ’18
- Jon Callan: stained glass window maker
August ’18
- The Great Dorset Steam Fair at 50
August ’18
- From Chalbury to Fleet Street
August ’18
- ‘More like a way of life’ – Dorset Heavy Horse Centre
August ’18
- Whatever happened to… Lovell’s Shell Bay Café
August ’18
- Wareham: save the date
July ’18
- 710 years of music – Wimborne Minster organ
July ’18
- The Preacher’s Nun’s Tale
July ’18
- Celebrating Dorset’s Architectural Heritage
July ’18
- The Dorset countryside in July
July ’18
- Dorset village – Fontmell Magna
July ’18
- The Weymouth history man
July ’18
- The Dorset Walk – Eggardon Hill
July ’18
- A Dorset Garden – Farrs, Beaminster
July ’18
- Dorset Groups – Enriching lives with art
June ’18
- Making scents of Tarrant Keyneston
June ’18
- Grazing under the Giant
June ’18
- Blandford Fires ancient and modern
June ’18
- Receiving a Legg-up
June ’18
- Fifty years of protecting Dorset’s environment
June ’18
- The Dorset Walk – Coombe Heath, Highwood and East Stoke
June ’18
- Tony Hancock in Dorset
June ’18
- Unreserved passion for Dorset
June ’18
- Dorset Life Opinion – Why we need a Dorset National Park and need it soon
June ’18
- West Dorset inspiration
June ’18
- The train that dare not speak its name
June ’18
- Tyneham revisited
June ’18
- The best of Dorset in words and pictures for 50 years
June ’18
- The Guttridge Files – World War 2 & Santa
May ’18
- The Dorset Walk – Daggons, Cranborne Common and Cripplestyle
May ’18
- Nature’s concert
May ’18
- Dorset Crafts – A copper-bottomed expert
May ’18
- Raleigh in Dorset
May ’18
- The Mudeford Club at 90
May ’18
- Artists’ Purbeck inspiration
May ’18
- Look it up in Pevsner
May ’18
- Minterne Magna and Minterne Parva
May ’18
- Dorset Garden – Frith House
May ’18
- Dorset’s ghost owls
April ’18
- April in Dorset
April ’18
- The Dorset Walk – Broadwindsor, Burstock, Childhay and Drimpton
April ’18
- Wimborne’s green places
April ’18
- ‘The Zeebrugge Stunt’
April ’18
- Swanage’s Guiding principal
April ’18
- Ridge of a thousand monuments
April ’18
- Whatever happened to Tucktonia?
April ’18
- Beaminster in detail
March ’18
- The walled town
March ’18
- Everywhere and nowhere – Dorset Artist
March ’18
- Deeply Dippy and Major Trumpets
March ’18
- Helping a crisis out of a drama
March ’18
- The Ferndown phoenix
March ’18
- West Holme
March ’18
- Spring is sprung
March ’18
- Witchcraft in the Puddles
March ’18
- Dorset in close-up: insects
March ’18
- Dorset in close-up: galls
February ’18
- Moviola
February ’18
- The ace of spades – Alan Burridge
February ’18
- Dorset Artist – Carve her name with pride
February ’18
- The Dorset walk – Broadstone
February ’18
- Wild about Bourton
February ’18
- Piggy in the middle
February ’18
- Stoborough
February ’18
- Winter Migrants
January ’18
- From railway art to Hardy
January ’18
- The lure of Dorset
January ’18
- The Dorset walk – Swanage
January ’18
- A taste of Dorset – Salary from the sea
January ’18
- A fragment of rare beauty
January ’18
- ‘The journey is as important as the destination’
January ’18
- Give My Regards to Broad Street
January ’18
- William Whiteway’s diary
January ’18
- Married, widowed, condemned, a mother & executed by age 19
December ’17
- Try, try, try again
December ’17
- Dorset Craft – Wood in the blood
December ’17
- In the Footsteps of Treves – Sherborne
December ’17
- Veni Vidi Wimborne
December ’17
- Dorset Lives – Gordon Haskell: The return of the native?
December ’17
- Make your garden a real wildlife winter wonderland
December ’17
- Abbey 200th birthday
December ’17
- The Dorset Walk – Fontmell Magna – passing by Sutton Waldron
December ’17
- Shaftesbury’s Mr Cheese
November ’17
- Cold, hard history
November ’17
- Epidemic!
November ’17
- Is it a bird…?
November ’17
- Variety is the spice of life
November ’17
- Dorset’s men of conviction
November ’17
- Unless my eyes deceive me – Nina Camplin
November ’17
- A fascinating meeting of art & industry
November ’17
- Shapwick
November ’17
- Hedgehogs in Dorset
November ’17
- The fall and rise of Upton House and Country Park
October ’17
- The Dorset Walk – The South Winterborne
October ’17
- Growing plants and people
October ’17
- ‘You know where you are with a horse’
October ’17
- Kingston’s other church
October ’17
- From the rising of the sun…
October ’17
- From Belsen to Bournemouth
October ’17
- Sherborne’s literary festival
October ’17
- Motoring Mary
October ’17
- These routes are made for walking – Gillingham Walking Festival
September ’17
- Sturminster Castle: the house of Neweton
September ’17
- Uneasy riders & grazing cows
September ’17
- Literary links of every kind
September ’17
- What lies beneath
September ’17
- Transforming cancer care in Dorset
September ’17
- In the footsteps of Treves – The Isle of Portland
September ’17
- Before and beyond Parnham
September ’17
- A Dorset Garden: Edmonsham House
September ’17
- Music & dance by the sea – Swanage Folk Festival
September ’17
- The Brownsea boys
August ’17
- Weymouth’s Art Deco dream
August ’17
- Swanage handaxe
August ’17
- Acton
August ’17
- Rebuilding Corfe Castle
August ’17
- Ninebarrow scale the heights
August ’17
- A little tern for the better at Chesil Beach
August ’17
- A tale of ten bridges – Blandford’s bridges
August ’17
- Bridport and cricket memories
August ’17
- Christchurch on a bike
August ’17
- Dorset villages: West Stafford
July ’17
- Go with the flow
July ’17
- A Dorset garden: Lower Abbotts Wootton Farm
July ’17
- Swanage: pirate-friendly town
July ’17
- Dorset lives: David Osselton
July ’17
- A magnificent present
July ’17
- The Guttridge files: Was he a smuggler?
July ’17
- Bournemouth’s ‘little dictator’
July ’17
- Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – blue tit
July ’17
- Dorset Walk
July ’17
- Jess of the dairy fields
July ’17
- ‘A most wonderful house’
June ’17
- From beach to museum
June ’17
- The farm that time forgot
June ’17
- In the Footsteps of Treves: Arne, Ower and the Poole Estuary
June ’17
- Dorset crafts: Setting down roots
June ’17
- Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – Scarlet tiger moths
June ’17
- The Durrells in Bournemouth
June ’17
- Blandford Forum’s hidden treasure
June ’17
- The Guttridge Files: The great Stour flood 100 years on
June ’17
- Just what the doctor ordered
June ’17
- Far from the bidding crowd
June ’17
- Unreserved passion for wildlife
May ’17
- A Dorset garden: The Old Rectory, Winterborne Stickland
May ’17
- Protecting Portland
May ’17
- The Dorset walk: the Comptons and Trent
May ’17
- From Harry Paye to maritime day
May ’17
- Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – House mouse
May ’17
- The Guttridge files: Year of the Flood
May ’17
- Bridport’s ukulele orchestra
May ’17
- Purbeck Art Weeks 2017
May ’17
- Jess of the dairy fields
May ’17
- The birds and the bees
April ’17
- Winterborne Clenston
April ’17
- The university of wood
April ’17
- The regeneration game
April ’17
- The Dorset walk 1: The other end of Portland
April ’17
- The cultural hub of Christchurch
April ’17
- Dorset Lives: The man who set the sea on fire
April ’17
- The Guttridge Files: The female Diggory Venn
April ’17
- The Dorset walk 2: Bourton
April ’17
- Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year: common lizard
April ’17
- Ferndown’s secret war
April ’17
- Service in every sense
April ’17
- Far from the bidding crowd
April ’17
- Scene in another way
March ’17
- Treasures of Dorset: Swanage Railway
March ’17
- Heavens above
March ’17
- In the Footsteps of Treves: Sturminster Newton and Hammoon
March ’17
- Not just the agri brigade
March ’17
- The Dorset walk: Charlton Marshall, Gorcombe and Spetisbury
March ’17
- Tales of Flitterwick Harbour
March ’17
- What goes around
March ’17
- A Dorset garden: Kitemoor Cottage, Manswood
March ’17
- Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – little owl
March ’17
- What is a High Sheriff?
March ’17
- Arne for art’s sake
March ’17
- A habit from the past
March ’17
- Jess of the dairy fields
March ’17
- Remains of the S&D
February ’17
- Dorset village: Canford Magna
February ’17
- Queen of the castle
February ’17
- Bournemouth’s biggest garden
February ’17
- Lizard’s leg, and howlet’s wing
February ’17
- Keep ‘em pealed!
February ’17
- Dorset artist: Recapturing the glory days
February ’17
- Dorset Lives: The fittest 99-year-old in Dorset
February ’17
- Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year: grey squirrel
February ’17
- Dorset crafts: Marquetry not a wind-up
February ’17
- Bellona, Australia and the Roses of Sturminster Newton
February ’17
- Super Marine Theatre
February ’17
- Dorset lives: Jam yesterday, jam today
February ’17
- The Guttridge Files: Heirs of Tolpuddle
February ’17
- Far from the bidding crowd
February ’17
- Winter: pretty, but deadly
January ’17
- Wool and Woolbridge Manor
January ’17
- Small, but perfectly formed
January ’17
- The Dorset drive: North(ish) and south
January ’17
- The original S Cowell
January ’17
- Dorset Artist: From yuppie to yippee
January ’17
- Fire and Gillingham
January ’17
- Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – Frost on field rose
January ’17
- The Wicca man
January ’17
- From coronation to consort via rock star and Agony
January ’17
- Lost pub and land grab
January ’17
- Jess of the dairy fields
January ’17
- A white Dorset Christmas
December ’16
- Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – goldfinch in flight
December ’16
- In the Footsteps of Treves: Sandsfoot and Wyke Regis
December ’16
- Dorset Lives: ‘Being bored is a lost art…’
December ’16
- ‘Everyone seemed to have a copy’
December ’16
- Hutchins, Dorset’s reverend historian
December ’16
- Dorset Lives: The sage of Langton Matravers
December ’16
- A sight to see
December ’16
- Wimborne: a model town
December ’16
- Dorset and the Crimea
December ’16
- The Duck Dash
December ’16
- Bringing Christmas to Bournemouth
December ’16
- The Guttridge files: Bookshelf skulduggery
December ’16
- Far from the bidding crowd
December ’16
- A different view of Dorset
November ’16
- Dorset villages: Portesham
November ’16
- Dorset & the Somme: 100 years on
November ’16
- Dorset Artist: Manga, maps and moments
November ’16
- Hardy on the small screen
November ’16
- The Dorset walk: Long Crichel, Chetterwood and Crichel Down
November ’16
- Swash without the buckle
November ’16
- Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – Sweet Chestnut
November ’16
- ‘Bravest man in the world’
November ’16
- From ant to iguanodon
November ’16
- A school with a heart
November ’16
- Judging the homeless
November ’16
- Dorset Lives: Hurdy-gurdy man
November ’16
- Jess of the dairy fields
November ’16
- Lost in the time of mists
October ’16
- Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – sika stag
October ’16
- Symondsbury
October ’16
- The odd couple – Studland Art Industries
October ’16
- Minterne – The home of Churchills and Digbys
October ’16
- You can’t see Verwood for the trees
October ’16
- Dorchester’s Warr in Crimea
October ’16
- Treasures of Dorset: Grange Arch
October ’16
- I spy with my little eye – Cerne Abbas
October ’16
- When Florence met Lawrence
October ’16
- The Dorset Walk 1: Badbury Rings and The Oaks
October ’16
- The Dorset walk 2: Batcombe and Hilfield
October ’16
- The star man of Ferndown
October ’16
- A Dorset life for me
October ’16
- The Dorset Walk – Bere Regis & Piddles Wood
September ’16
- The Dorset Walk – Milton on Stour and Silton
September ’16
- The Rights of Way Liaison Officer
September ’16
- The train not at platform 1
September ’16
- Askers Roadhouse Hotel
September ’16
- Hearts of Oak
September ’16
- Paddling in the Bay
September ’16
- A village by the sea – Mudeford Spit beach huts
September ’16
- Vivat Rex – Wareham cinema
September ’16
- Staddlestones, Witchampton
September ’16
- Swan-upmanship
September ’16
- Otterly captivating
September ’16
- In the Footsteps of Treves: Wimborne Minster
September ’16
- Gone fishing
August ’16
- Portland Bill
August ’16
- Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – a young fox in August
August ’16
- Capability Brown in West Dorset
August ’16
- The Dorset maze mage
August ’16
- A day in the life of Swanage Pier
August ’16
- Dorset’s rubbish…
August ’16
- A millennium of milling?
August ’16
- ‘I zaw thic funeral’
August ’16
- Carter’s Tile Manufactory
August ’16
- The Dorset walk: Powerstock, West Milton and the Poortons
August ’16
- The Dorset walk 2: Pentridge & Bokerley Ditch
August ’16
- A Dorset life for me
August ’16
- The Weather Man
July ’16
- A Dorset garden: Annalal’s Gallery, Christchurch
July ’16
- Out of work for 44 minutes
July ’16
- A Tyneham sapper
July ’16
- A Hardy biennial – Thomas Hardy Conference
July ’16
- Beaminster Museum
July ’16
- Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year: common blue damselfly
July ’16
- All aboard the Bournemouth
July ’16
- ‘Open and flexible characters who know themselves’
July ’16
- The Dorset walk: Charlton Higher Down and the lower Cerne Valley
July ’16
- The Dorset Walk 2: Shroton and Hambledon Hill
July ’16
- Dunshay: a private view
July ’16
- Jess of the dairy fields
July ’16
- Dorset’s dragonflies
June ’16
- ‘What’s that you say Lassie? You’re really from Lyme Regis!’
June ’16
- Milton Abbey and Capability Brown
June ’16
- The Bailey bridge
June ’16
- Filming the heart of a murderer
June ’16
- Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – Rock stonecrop
June ’16
- As easy as ABG, Arthur Bellyse Gourlay
June ’16
- Treasures of Dorset – Brownsea Island
June ’16
- In the footsteps of Treves: Athelhampton & Puddletown
June ’16
- The Dorset walk 1: Corfe Mullen and Upton Heath
June ’16
- The Dorset Walk 2: West Bexington
June ’16
- Words take wing
June ’16
- A Dorset life for me
June ’16
- Stour to the sea, part 4: White Mill to Christchurch
May ’16
- A Dorset garden: Anderson Manor
May ’16
- A Dorset village: Mosterton
May ’16
- Going Loco, down in Luscombe Valley
May ’16
- A Dorset life in music: Bonny Sartin of the Yetties
May ’16
- What would the Bastard brothers say?
May ’16
- End of term report: Dorset’s first Police & Crime Commisioner
May ’16
- Colin Varndell’s wildlife year: yellow dung fly
May ’16
- The Dorset Walk: 1 – Kimmeridge Bay and Swyre Head
May ’16
- The Dorset Walk: 2 – Stratton & Jackman’s Cross
May ’16
- The Fringe comes to Shaftesbury
May ’16
- Jess of the dairy fields
May ’16
- Clive Hannay – The first 25 years
April ’16
- Whatever happened to The Tilly Whim Inn?
April ’16
- Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – Orange-tip butterfly
April ’16
- Field of Dreams – Dean Park ground
April ’16
- Be under ev’ry step you tread – Dorset’s buttercups
April ’16
- Chilbridge Farm and the Richards family
April ’16
- More Questions than answers – The Tudor House
April ’16
- Living Treasure of Dorset – Cliff Standing, Greyhound trainer, Sturminster Newton
April ’16
- Composing in Bridport
April ’16
- A tale of three churches… and a pirate graveyard
April ’16
- The Dorset walk 1 – Chettle, Farnham, and Minchington
April ’16
- The Dorset walk 2: Sherborne – a town stroll
April ’16
- A Dorset life for me
April ’16
- Animals on coast
March ’16
- Studland: the South Haven peninsula
March ’16
- A Dorset garden – Langebride House
March ’16
- The Wellington clock tower
March ’16
- Dorset Lives: ‘Cider’ Bill Meaden
March ’16
- Jekyll and Hyde were born in Bournemouth
March ’16
- East and West Chelborough, Corscombe and Forde Abbey
March ’16
- Treasures of Dorset: the Cerne Abbas Giant
March ’16
- Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year: Water rail
March ’16
- Rebel with a cause – Lyme Regis Gig Club
March ’16
- The Dorset Walk – Ibberton
March ’16
- Katharine Church
March ’16
- Jess of the dairy fields
March ’16
- Marnhull: A photo essay
February ’16
- Old man river: part 3
February ’16
- Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – a mallard
February ’16
- Tragedy in Poole Harbour
February ’16
- Stories from an old house
February ’16
- Small and perfectly formed
February ’16
- Giving Dorset: Trust in Bournemouth – Youth Cancer Trust
February ’16
- ‘Row, row, row your boat…’ – Christchurch Rowing Club
February ’16
- Down my way: The Sherborne Abbey bells
February ’16
- Great Bus Journeys of Dorset – Christchurch to Lyme Regis
February ’16
- Great Bus Journeys of Dorset – Motcombe to Portland Bill
February ’16
- Going the extra mile
February ’16
- Life without a car
February ’16
- Gillingham railway station
February ’16
- A Dorset life for me
February ’16
- In the bleak midwinter
January ’16
- Melbury Abbas
January ’16
- The Purbeck Hills
January ’16
- Weymouth Pavilion
January ’16
- A Dorset church: St Mary’s, Tarrant Rawston
January ’16
- Fall of the house of Stalbridge
January ’16
- A peaceful place – Wimborne Road Cemetery
January ’16
- Living treasure of Dorset: Harry Warr, Gamekeeper & Riverkeeper
January ’16
- Verwood’s blooming marvellous society
January ’16
- The Twin defenders, Portland and Sandsfoot castles
January ’16
- Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – the polecat
January ’16
- Thomas Hardy and the Goldfinch
January ’16
- Jess of the dairyfields
January ’16
- Whatever happened to… The Shell House, Southbourne
December ’15
- A Dorset life for me
December ’15
- In the footsteps of Treves – Milton Abbas and Milton Abbey
December ’15
- Portrait of the artistof a portrait in Dorset
December ’15
- Wake up Poole!
December ’15
- Dorset Lives – a life in music
December ’15
- Evacuated to Stur
December ’15
- Treasures of Dorset – Durdle Door
December ’15
- Jurassic Coast from the air
December ’15
- Dorchester’s prisoner of war camp
December ’15
- Taking flight
December ’15
- Browsers and grazers
November ’15
- Church Knowle
November ’15
- The Stour to the sea: part 2
November ’15
- A tale of two cinemas
November ’15
- Dorset Lives: Top of the E-class – Holly Phillips MBE
November ’15
- Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year: Kingfisher
November ’15
- White Helmets on display
November ’15
- Clifftop catastrophe
November ’15
- Down my way: Apprenticed as a Wareham smith
November ’15
- The Dorset Walk – Corscombe and West Chelborough
November ’15
- Reach for the sky – Bournemouth Aviation Museum
November ’15
- Gold Hill: A day in the life
November ’15
- Jess of the dairy fields
November ’15
- Dorset’s night sky
October ’15
- Higher & Lower Eype
October ’15
- Born in a barn – Swanage museum
October ’15
- ‘It’s priceless’ – Dorset Blind Association
October ’15
- Blandford’s Unions: the rise and fall of Henry Mayor
October ’15
- Conker Gin – a ‘community spirit’
October ’15
- Dorset’s role in Agincourt
October ’15
- Colin Varndell’s wildlife year – woodmouse
October ’15
- Living treasures of Dorset – Jim Bettle, Charcoal burner
October ’15
- The Dorset Walk – Chaldon Herring and Scratchy Bottom
October ’15
- The Dorset Walk – Sturminster Marshall & White Mill
October ’15
- Sherborne’s world of film
October ’15
- Dorchester Literary Festival
October ’15
- A Dorset life for me
October ’15
- Carnival of the animals
September ’15
- A Dorset garden – 4 Noel Road, Wallisdown
September ’15
- From dinosaurs to saxons – Wareham museum
September ’15
- In the footsteps of Treves: Blandford and Blandford St Mary
September ’15
- Dorset’s wildlife police
September ’15
- Marconi’s love island
September ’15
- Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – September
September ’15
- Treasures of Dorset – The Dorsetshire Gap
September ’15
- Dorset Lives – Purbeck’s people’s poet
September ’15
- My desert island Bournemouth
September ’15
- The Dorset Walk 1 – Fiddleford, Hammoon, and Piddles Wood
September ’15
- Dorset walk 2 – Hengistbury Head
September ’15
- Jess of the dairy fields
September ’15
- Dorset’s mammals: part two – Predators and scavengers
August ’15
- They capture the castle
August ’15
- The Stour to the sea: part one
August ’15
- West Bay: A photo essay
August ’15
- A very honest building – Highcliffe Castle
August ’15
- The name’s Grass, Mr Grass
August ’15
- Colin Varndell’s wildlife year: muntjac
August ’15
- Verlaine in Westbourne
August ’15
- Dorset lives – Lynda Price
August ’15
- The Dorset walk 1 – Upwey and Bincombe
August ’15
- The Dorset walk 2 – Plush
August ’15
- The problem with the past; it keeps getting bigger
August ’15
- A Dorset Life for me
August ’15
- Dorset from the sea
July ’15
- A Dorset Garden – Cottage Row
July ’15
- A prickly pair
July ’15
- Larmer Tree Festival
July ’15
- Colin Varndell’s wildlife year: willow warbler
July ’15
- Shaftesbury: Pocket Borough
July ’15
- Clive Hannay’s village walk: Tarrant Gunville
July ’15
- Martinstown’s record storm
July ’15
- More to it than the Giant – Cerne Abbey
July ’15
- Living Treasure of Dorset – Charlie Newman, pub licensee
July ’15
- The Dorset Walk 1 – Whitchurch Canonicorum and Shave Cross
July ’15
- Dorset walk 2 – Ashley Chase
July ’15
- Wimborne in miniature
July ’15
- Taste of Dorset – Woolsery cheese
July ’15
- Jess of the dairy fields
July ’15
- Skydancing and sneaking – marsh harriers
June ’15
- In the footsteps of Treves: Hinton Martell, Chalbury and Horton
June ’15
- Poole’s Park for the People
June ’15
- Decadence and depravity…with added cheese
June ’15
- Cranborne: an estate village
June ’15
- When Dorset went to Waterloo
June ’15
- Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – keeled skimmer
June ’15
- Treasures of Dorset – Chesil Beach
June ’15
- The Dorset Walk – St Aldhelm’s Head and Winspit
June ’15
- The Dorset Walk – Ashmore
June ’15
- 140 years of the Swanage lifeboat
June ’15
- Dorset Lives: Dorset by name – Ray Dorset
June ’15
- A Dorset life for me
June ’15
- Dorset village – Shapwick
May ’15
- Stur’s Museum – small but perfectly formed
May ’15
- Blandford’s ‘Most pernicious beast’
May ’15
- Anvant-garde in Swanage – Helen Muspratt
May ’15
- The Old Rectory, Pulham
May ’15
- Wood and hedgerow mammals
May ’15
- Defoe in Dorset; Part 4
May ’15
- Christchurch’s gentleman craftsman
May ’15
- Music has been constant’ Eric Gosney
May ’15
- Dorset walk – Colehill and God’s Blessing Green
May ’15
- Dorset walk – Morcombelake and Langdon Hill
May ’15
- Lakes, lagoons and ponds
April ’15
- Kingston and Encombe
April ’15
- Netting the prize
April ’15
- Dorset lives: Putting the B in boogie-woogie
April ’15
- ‘One of Dorset’s grandest and most interesting country houses’
April ’15
- From Weymouth to the world
April ’15
- The first Sir Winston
April ’15
- Colin Varndell’s wildlife year: brimstone butterfly
April ’15
- Living treasures of Dorset – Emsie Sharp, glass blower, Child Okeford
April ’15
- Joy’s folly
April ’15
- Dorset walk – Up Cerne, Minterne Parva and Minterne Magna
April ’15
- Dorset walk 2 – Stoke Abbott and Waddon Hill
April ’15
- A Dorset life for me
April ’15
- All creatures great and small
March ’15
- A Dorset garden: Frankham Farm, Ryme Intrinseca
March ’15
- For Ever Dorset – Rupert Brooke’s Dorset connections
March ’15
- Dorset’s Jurassic Park
March ’15
- In the footsteps of Treves: Bradpole, Loders, Symondsbury and Chideock
March ’15
- Dorset’s Treasure House – Dorset County Museum
March ’15
- The Mother of all pageants
March ’15
- Treasures of Dorset – Colmer’s Hill
March ’15
- The Dorset walk – Hardy Country
March ’15
- Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – bank vole
March ’15
- New Jazz in Old Poole
March ’15
- Jess of the dairy fields
March ’15
- In the footsteps of trees
February ’15
- Bradford Peverell – a photo essay
February ’15
- Putting Bridport firmly on the British map
February ’15
- Dorset’s gain – Sandford Orcas Manor
February ’15
- Mimi and Sandbanks
February ’15
- A portrait of Portland
February ’15
- The longest siege – the Civil War siege of Lyme Regis
February ’15
- Colin Varndell’s wildlife year: common frog
February ’15
- Down my way: Studland Heinkel crash
February ’15
- The Blackmore Vale
February ’15
- Dorset lives: The Orchid Man – Keith Andrew
February ’15
- Jack Counter – Blandford’s VC
February ’15
- Music in the community – BSO community musician Andy Baker
February ’15
- A Dorset life for me
February ’15
- Spring to Sea
January ’15
- Sutton Poyntz
January ’15
- Poole’s press barons
January ’15
- Let there be light… and power
January ’15
- Swanage’s Mowlem mystery
January ’15
- Dorset artist: Working with the sea – Sean Curley
January ’15
- Time of the signs
January ’15
- Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – black-headed gull
January ’15
- Living treasures of Dorset: John Cluett – Musician, painter and former S & D signalman
January ’15
- To serve them all their days
January ’15
- The Dorset drive: Up the Frome and down the Piddle
January ’15
- Dorset’s wartime heroine – Mabel St Clair Stobart
January ’15
- The story of a home
January ’15
- Jess of the dairy fields
January ’15
- The Woodlanders
December ’14