‘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
Did you know that the first thirty volumes of SDNQ are now available on FindMyPast? Providing access to 7,646 articles published in Somerset & Dorset Notes and Queries between 1890 and 1980 on local history, archaeology, architecture, antiquities, genealogy, heraldry, literature, dialect, family history, and the customs and folklore of Somerset and Dorset. An index … Read more
Indexes to the Somerset Estate Duty Office Wills and Letters of Administration 1805-1811 and Estate Duty Office Wills 1812-1857 are now available on the Transcriptions page of the SDNQ website. The conversion of the data typeset has been undertaken by David T. Hawkings and Dr Adrian Webb. The documents referred to in these lists are … 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