History and Antiquities

history

  • noun (pl. histories) 1 the study of past events. 2 the past considered as a whole. 3 the past events connected with someone or something. 4 a continuous record of past events or trends.

  — ORIGIN Greek historia ‘narrative, history’, from histor ‘learned, wise man’.

antiquity

  • noun (pl. antiquities) 1 the distant past, especially before the Middle Ages. 2 an object from the distant past. 3 great age.

A collection of local history and antiquities from our archive of selected sites around the county of Dorset.

• Terror of the Hawkhurst Gang

• Cross and Hand

• The Hanging Judge

• The Posy Tree

• The Langton Cross

• The Black Death

• The Bridport Dagger

• The Crabchurch Conspiracy

• Murder of Edward the Martyr

• Mary Shelley