‘It’s like Wikipedia before there was Wikipedia’ is how Dr Mark Forrest, Dorset editor of SDNQ, describes Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries in an interview with Nick Churchill in the May 2019 issue of Dorset Life.
In the interview Mark discusses the 131 year history of the journal, which was first published in 1888 and is the oldest continuously published periodical of its kind, and the wide variety of user-generated content it contains, including anything from the origins of Dorset Christmas carols to the practice of wife selling.