Reading Early Handwriting 1500-1700 by Dr Mark Forrest, the Dorset Editor of SDNQ, is now available from the BALH This greatly expanded third edition contains practical guidance on reading Tudor and Stuart documents, and is an invaluable companion for local and family historians, students and researchers working with English documents written between 1500 and 1700. … Read more
‘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 … Read more
December 2018 This month saw the launch of a fascinating new book about Sherborne Abbey’s bells. The Bells of Sherborne Abbey: the Heaviest Ring of Eight in the World, written by Katherine Barker, President of the Sherborne Museum, and Peter Soole, one of the ringers at Sherborne Abbey, describes several key events in the Abbey’s story … Read more