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• In the footsteps of Treves: Charlton Marshall, Spetisbury, Sturminster Marshall
  December ’14
• Just who was Sir Frederick Treves?
  December ’14
• Why I love Westbourne
  December ’14
• The literary giant of Cerne Abbas
  December ’14
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – the redpoll
  December ’14
• Dorset lives – Anna del Conte
  December ’14
• Dorset’s aerial hero – William Rhodes Moorhouse
  December ’14
• Treasures of Dorset – Knowlton: Church & Henge
  December ’14
• Obelisk & Cleopatra – Kingston Lacy’s Philae obelisk
  December ’14
• The ghosts of businesses past
  December ’14
• Reflections on a year: ‘…Amid the furze and copses’
  December ’14
• A poem for winter: The Vrost
  December ’14
• A Dorset life for me
  December ’14
• Drawn to the coast
  November ’14
• Shillingstone: A photo essay
  November ’14
• Ferndown’s top bog
  November ’14
• Raiders!
  November ’14
• Langton Herring
  November ’14
• Belmont: from show-home to holiday home
  November ’14
• Dorset villages: The Chalkland valleys
  November ’14
• Down my way: Tyneham Sketchbook
  November ’14
• The Dorset walk – 1 Folke and Sherborne Park
  November ’14
• Dorset walk – 2 Cranborne
  November ’14
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – November
  November ’14
• By the community, for the community
  November ’14
• Jess of the dairy fields: sloe gin
  November ’14
• The heights of Dorset
  October ’14
• Netherbury
  October ’14
• Muddlecombe Mayhem
  October ’14
• Woodsford Castle
  October ’14
• Christchurch Castle & Hall
  October ’14
• Colin Varndell’s wildlife year – southern hawker
  October ’14
• Village shops: ‘Like Chocolat…, but better’
  October ’14
• Ironmaster to wildlife – the Canford Estate
  October ’14
• Living treasure of Dorset, Gail McGarva, traditional wooden boat builder
  October ’14
• The Dorset Life Walk – Melcombe Bingham
  October ’14
• The Dorset Life Walk – Portesham, Rodden and Waddon
  October ’14
• Cheese, pigs and vodka
  October ’14
• The Dorset Walk – Bridport
  September ’14
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – September
  September ’14
• Thomas Hardy, Toucans and Ice-Cream
  September ’14
• Treasures of Dorset: The Cobb at Lyme Regis
  September ’14
• The Dorset Walk/Cycle Ride – Wareham Forest and Woolsbarrow Fort
  September ’14
• Dorset groups: We’re like gardeners, we love to share our knowledge
  September ’14
• b-Side: It’s not just the seaside
  September ’14
• Dorset Artist: The Delight is in the Detail
  September ’14
• Jess of the dairy fields
  September ’14
• Dorset’s red foxes
  September ’14
• From Roy of the Rovers to World War 1 – Joe Colquhoun
  September ’14
• A Gothic Tale…with a happy ending
  September ’14
• In the footsteps of Treves: Bere Regis, Morden and Bloxworth
  September ’14
• Dorset Garden: The Old Vicarage, East Orchard
  September ’14
• Hengistbury Head & Mudeford Spit
  August ’14
• Cerne Abbas – a photo essay
  August ’14
• ‘Someone screamed “Down!” – the Bourne Valley gasworks bombing
  August ’14
• An interesting quirkiness – Purbeck House
  August ’14
• Above us only sky? – Blandford Forum
  August ’14
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – Peacock butterfly
  August ’14
• Dorset Villages: East Dorset
  August ’14
• Down my way – Dorset Buttons
  August ’14
• A huge potential for growth: Portland Port
  August ’14
• The Dorset walk 1 – Broadmayne, Whitcombe, West Knighton
  August ’14
• The Dorset walk 2 – Bride Valley – Littlebredy
  August ’14
• A taste of Dorset – From Dorset with love
  August ’14
• A Dorset life for me
  August ’14
• Dorset’s Jurassic coast
  July ’14
• Dorset gardens: Marren, Holworth
  July ’14
• What is M B of the B of D?
  July ’14
• Dorset village walk: Compton Abbas
  July ’14
• Stronger together: Wimborne Tourist Information Centre
  July ’14
• Just where is medieval Shaftesbury?
  July ’14
• Living Treasures of Dorset: Ivor Charles – retired fisherman
  July ’14
• Lock, stock and barrel
  July ’14
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – spotted flycatcher and chick
  July ’14
• The Dorset walk 1 – Drimpton and Burstock
  July ’14
• The Dorset walk 2 – Godlingston Heath
  July ’14
• Dorset Opera forty years on
  July ’14
• Jess of the diary fields
  July ’14
• Desperate Remedies
  June ’14
• Mapperton
  June ’14
• In the footsteps of Treves: Chettle, Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge
  June ’14
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – the stoat
  June ’14
• All the Victorian fun of the fayre
  June ’14
• Why I love Christchurch: ‘Why would you live anywhere else?’
  June ’14
• The Dorset walk 1 – Lyme Regis and Charmouth
  June ’14
• The Dorset walk 2 – North Dorset Trailway
  June ’14
• Treasure of Dorset – Golden Cap
  June ’14
• Building happy memories – Julia’s House
  June ’14
• A new Roman villa for Dorset
  June ’14
• Bringing the war memorial to life – Stalbridge
  June ’14
• A Dorset life for me
  June ’14
• Butterflies in Dorset
  May ’14
• Dorset Garden: Cottesmore Farm, West Moors
  May ’14
• Sturminster Newton: Surviving the storm
  May ’14
• Dewlish: A village photo essay
  May ’14
• Bryanston School: An individual approach
  May ’14
• Dorset’s villages: from the coast to the Marshwood Vale
  May ’14
• Colin Varndell’s wildlife year – herring gull
  May ’14
• Down my way: Thomas Hardy and Martha Brown
  May ’14
• Dorset walk 1 – Bournemouth, Westbourne & the Chines
  May ’14
• The Dorset walk: Durlston and Dancing Ledge
  May ’14
• Wessex Morris Men: The sight and sound of summer
  May ’14
• Ruby in the west – Bridport Arts Centre
  May ’14
• Jess of the dairy fields
  May ’14
• Dorset’s Jurassic Coast – Worbarrow to Abbotsbury
  April ’14
• Church Knowle ‘A lovable little place’
  April ’14
• An eventful life – William Fox-Pitt
  April ’14
• Bournemouth by the numbers
  April ’14
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – the brown hare
  April ’14
• A Passion for Poole
  April ’14
• Boat building: An old craft, a new beginning
  April ’14
• Upton House – some council house!
  April ’14
• Living Treasures of Dorset – Hayley Foy, Farrier
  April ’14
• The Dorset Walk 1 – Spetisbury Rings, the S&D and Tarrant Abbey
  April ’14
• The Dorset Walk 2 – Chedington & Winyard’s Gap
  April ’14
• Sherborne Castle Estates – Much more than a castle with gardens
  April ’14
• Arts within the reach of all – Artsreach
  April ’14
• A Dorset life for me
  April ’14
• Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
  March ’14
• A well-oiled machine
  March ’14
• Giving Dorset: Help from on high
  March ’14
• Wimborne… not so Ancient and Modern
  March ’14
• Dorset Garden: Braddocks, Oxbridge
  March ’14
• Four ‘Puddles’ – Lower Piddle Valley
  March ’14
• Just before D-Day
  March ’14
• Colin Varndell’s wildlife year – the dipper
  March ’14
• Treasures of Dorset: Old Harry Rocks
  March ’14
• Representing the Crown in Dorset – Angus Campbell
  March ’14
• Stronger Together – The Dorchester Area Schools Partnership
  March ’14
• Stalbridge and Stalbridge Weston walk
  March ’14
• Portland – Three Lighthouses Walk
  March ’14
• Jess of the dairy fields
  March ’14
• Dorset as you’ve never seen it
  February ’14
• New Forest Choirs
  February ’14
• Fish gotta swim – Weymouth Sea Life Adventure Park
  February ’14
• A new start, a final stop
  February ’14
• There’s no place like home – affordable homes in Dorset
  February ’14
• In the best possible taste -the Guild of Fine Food
  February ’14
• The home of life-saving
  February ’14
• Purbeck and South Dorset
  February ’14
• Swalland Farm: danger UXB
  February ’14
• Sandford Orcas
  February ’14
• Defoe in Dorset
  February ’14
• Our iron-clad legacy
  January ’14
• Dorset’s Jurassic Coast – Old Harry to Gad Cliff
  January ’14
• A modern tradition – St Mary’s School, Shaftesbury
  January ’14
• Clive Hannay’s village walk – Worth Matravers
  January ’14
• Verdant and varied – Bournemouth gardens
  January ’14
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – heron
  January ’14
• Dorset’s McGonagall – Cumberland Clark
  January ’14
• Living treasures of Dorset: Dick Dalley, retired swanherd
  January ’14
• The Dorset drive: The valleys of the West and the scenic coast road
  January ’14
• Wareham then and now in pictures
  January ’14
• Life’s a beach – Dorset artist Colin Willey
  January ’14
• A taste of Dorset: From a great waste to a great taste
  January ’14
• Jess of the dairy fields
  January ’14
• Reflections on Dorset
  December ’13
• Fighting for Tyneham
  December ’13
• 100 years at the heart of Stur
  December ’13
• From grammar school boy to Cockney Rebel
  December ’13
• In the Footsteps of Treves: Bridport and West Bay
  December ’13
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – Robin
  December ’13
• ‘Not in the business of hobby farming…’
  December ’13
• A house frozen in time
  December ’13
• Treasures of Dorset: The Beech Avenue, Kingston Lacy
  December ’13
• ‘A house after my own heart’
  December ’13
• Walford Mill Crafts
  December ’13
• A Dorset life for me
  December ’13
• Dorset: land of mists
  November ’13
• Wool: a photo essay
  November ’13
• Hanging by a thread – Beaminster museum
  November ’13
• Dorset groups: The Dorset Youth Association
  November ’13
• A healthy future for Blandford
  November ’13
• ‘Beautifully turned artificial hills’
  November ’13
• Colin Varndell’s wildlife year – the otter
  November ’13
• A fair legacy of landmarks – Verwood
  November ’13
• Down my way: The Throop/Holdenhurst gas lamps
  November ’13
• The Dorset walk: 1 – Langton Herring and Moonfleet
  November ’13
• The Dorset walk: 2 – Wynford Eagle to Toller Fratrum
  November ’13
• A taste of Dorset: Chrissie and the chocolate factory
  November ’13
• Jess of the dairy fields
  November ’13
• Living treasures of Dorset: Margaret Ralph, game dealer
  October ’13
• Dorset Life investigates: Superfast rural broadband: a pipedream?
  October ’13
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – October
  October ’13
• Why I love Sherborne: ‘The quintessential English town’
  October ’13
• Close-up Dorset – insects
  October ’13
• The Dorset walk 1: Gunville Down and Stubhampton
  October ’13
• The Dorset walk 2 – Osmington Mills
  October ’13
• Dorset village walk: East Lulworth
  October ’13
• ‘A champion of the port of Poole’
  October ’13
• A Dorset life for me: Beatlemania in Bournemouth
  October ’13
• The lost buildings of Lyscombe
  October ’13
• Rex, camera, Durlston! – Purbeck Film Festival
  October ’13
• From ‘at risk’ to ‘at the heart of Bridport’
  October ’13
• Dorset houses: ‘Where the dead feet walked in’
  October ’13
• A taste of Dorset: Putting the sparkle into West Dorset
  September ’13
• Lawn of dreams
  September ’13
• Treasures of Dorset: Gold Hill
  September ’13
• The Royal Signals Museum
  September ’13
• Dorset walk: Worth Matravers, Winspit and St Aldhelm’s Head
  September ’13
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – September
  September ’13
• Studland: a photo essay
  September ’13
• Dorset Walk: Christchurch
  September ’13
• To the west of Shaftesbury – in the footsteps of Treves
  September ’13
• Dorset garden: The Old Rectory, Manston
  September ’13
• Dating a difficult building in Dorchester
  September ’13
• Aces Low – Bournemouth’s flying races
  September ’13
• Jess of the dairy fields
  September ’13
• Bridport Hat Festival
  September ’13
• Shaftesbury: best thing since sliced bread
  August ’13
• Feather and fur
  August ’13
• A Dorset life for me
  August ’13
• Symondsbury – a photo essay
  August ’13
• From Oshkosh to Swanage
  August ’13
• Down my way: Big Country’s journey in Purbeck
  August ’13
• Colin Varndell’s wildlife year – The soldier beetle
  August ’13
• Dorset artist: The living landscape
  August ’13
• Monastery, showpiece, family home
  August ’13
• Success with a Cherry on top
  August ’13
• Behind the scenes: The Red House Museum and Gardens
  August ’13
• The Dorset Walk: Middlebere and Wytch Heaths
  August ’13
• Dorset walk: Tyneham and Worbarrow
  August ’13
• Hardy’s places in pictures: The Hand of Ethelberta
  July ’13
• Fordington: a short walk
  July ’13
• The Dorset walk: Sandford Orcas and the Somerset border
  July ’13
• Dorset garden: Little Bindon Abbey
  July ’13
• Living treasures of Dorset: Pete Moors, hurdle maker
  July ’13
• Frampton – hero or villain?
  July ’13
• ‘Finer than Salisbury Cathedral’ – Sherborne Abbey
  July ’13
• Praised in Paris…. Made in Dorset: Farrow & Ball
  July ’13
• Wild about information – artist and illustrator Paul Matthews
  July ’13
• Daniel Defoe’s Dorset: Weymouth to Abbotsbury
  July ’13
• Chideock and Seatown
  July ’13
• Jess of the dairy fields
  July ’13
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – Grass snake
  July ’13
• Bridport, home is where the art is
  June ’13
• More than a blue flash – kingfishers in Dorset
  June ’13
• A Dorset life for me: Dorset’s female Pope
  June ’13
• CSI Bournemouth
  June ’13
• A complete jumble – Wolfeton
  June ’13
• Curiosities of Sturminster Newton
  June ’13
• Colin Varndell’s wildlife year – the four-spotted chaser
  June ’13
• Ferry nice indeed
  June ’13
• Bats in the bell-cote – St Andrew’s, Winterborne Tomson
  June ’13
• A short history of water – mains water to Beaminster
  June ’13
• Dorset walk: Ringstead and South Down
  June ’13
• In the footsteps of Treves: Maiden Newton and Piddletrentide
  June ’13
• The Dorset walk: Knighton Heath, Winfrith Newburgh and Winfrith Heath
  June ’13
• Jess of the dairy fields
  May ’13
• The Dorset walk: The Frome and Sydling valleys
  May ’13
• Dorset Villages: Chetnole
  May ’13
• Dorset’s Darwin – Alfred Russel Wallace
  May ’13
• Dorset’s mills
  May ’13
• Treasures of Dorset: Lulworth Cove
  May ’13
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – the marsh frog
  May ’13
• Paul Nash and the Blue Pool
  May ’13
• Flowers, fish and traditions
  May ’13
• For those in peril…
  May ’13
• The hunters of Dorset
  May ’13
• A lifetime of service to Gillingham – Tony Coombes
  May ’13
• Dorset Garden: Old Down Farm, Horton
  May ’13
• Wimborne’s Minster explored
  April ’13
• A Dorset Life for me
  April ’13
• Clive Hannay – Trent
  April ’13
• Down my way: The Roman aqueduct at Dorchester
  April ’13
• The Dorset Walk: Woodlands, Horton Tower and Chalbury
  April ’13
• Man of Poole – Bernard Dyer
  April ’13
• A minute of intense devastation – Bournemouth’s bloodiest air raid
  April ’13
• Robert Boyle of Stalbridge Park
  April ’13
• A monster of an idea – The Gruffalo Trail
  April ’13
• Spring in Dorset
  April ’13
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – the barn owl
  April ’13
• Neither Thelwell nor Mallory Towers
  April ’13
• The wild world on display – Arne
  April ’13
• In the footsteps of Treves – Beaminster and Mapperton
  March ’13
• Dorset lives: Kirill Karabits
  March ’13
• Curiosities of Lyme Regis
  March ’13
• Glass of Haig
  March ’13
• Dorset Gardens: Pyes Plot, Netherbury
  March ’13
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – March
  March ’13
• Dorset’s four-winged predators
  March ’13
• Mummies and Teddies – Dorchester’s museums
  March ’13
• Treasures of Dorset: Corfe Castle
  March ’13
• Verwood then and now
  March ’13
• Jess of the dairy fields
  March ’13
• The Dorset Walk: Tolpuddle, Briantspuddle and Turners Puddle
  March ’13
• Flour of Dorset – Stoate’s flour
  March ’13
• Nesta of the forest: Bournemouth’s witch
  March ’13
• A lot o’ pottery
  February ’13
• A Dorset life for me
  February ’13
• The Geology of Dorset: the Quaternary period
  February ’13
• Down my way: Charlton Marshall Halt
  February ’13
• The one-hit wonder of ‘Wareham’ – William Knapp
  February ’13
• A life in music – Em Marshall-Luck
  February ’13
• Dorset thatch
  February ’13
• Dorset and the English Crown – 1066 to 1688
  February ’13
• A workhouse incident – Cerne Abbas
  February ’13
• Swinging Bournemouth
  February ’13
• Ferndown’s lasting legacy – the John Thornton Young Achievers Foundation
  February ’13
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – Hazel catkins
  February ’13
• Rivers, streams and lakes – flora and fauna in Dorset’s rivers
  February ’13
• Dorset’s winter wildlife
  January ’13
• A life less ordinary
  January ’13
• The Great Gale of 1824
  January ’13
• Jess of the dairy fields
  January ’13
• Not your usual MP
  January ’13
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – the starling
  January ’13
• The battle of Blandford
  January ’13
• Chettle: a photo essay
  January ’13
• The Swanage Hospital debate
  January ’13
• The bells of St Mary’s
  January ’13
• The Dorset drive: Valleys, hills and views
  January ’13
• Lingua franca
  January ’13
• What’s the beef?
  January ’13
• Poole’s incredible hulks
  December ’12
• A falconer’s tale
  December ’12
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – the Woodmouse
  December ’12
• ‘Like a beast at bay’: Marie Curie’s secret stay in Highcliffe
  December ’12
• From ‘primitive’ beginnings
  December ’12
• Twelve months in North Dorset
  December ’12
• Weymouth’s Wilberforce
  December ’12
• A Dorset life for me
  December ’12
• Giving Dorset: Lifetime partnerships
  December ’12
• The Geology Of Dorset: The Palaeogene rocks
  December ’12
• A taste of Dorset: a Naga saga
  December ’12
• The beautiful game in God’s own county
  December ’12
• Charmouth’s camera
  November ’12
• In the footsteps of Treves – Cerne Abbas
  November ’12
• Don’t worry, we can mend her – Ellie’s Doll Workshop
  November ’12
• Thatching – an old skill in a new world – Dave Symonds
  November ’12
• Jess of the dairy fields
  November ’12
• ‘so nobly sacrificed their lives’: Dorchester war memorials
  November ’12
• The Dorset Walk – Hod and Hambledon
  November ’12
• In the year 2027 – Lyme Regis’s twenty-year plan
  November ’12
• Dorset’s Autumn Mists
  November ’12
• Dorset’s wild woodlands
  November ’12
• Let there be Leet – Wareham’s Court Leet
  November ’12
• ‘All that remains’ – Christchurch’s blue plaques
  November ’12
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – redwing
  November ’12
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – badger
  October ’12
• Twinning comes of age: Ferndown and Segré
  October ’12
• Horse power: Tony Munt, carriage driver
  October ’12
• Danger UXB – Portland’s World War 2 UneXploded Bomb
  October ’12
• The Saxon kings in Dorset – Dorset’s royal Wessex dynasty
  October ’12
• Best, Crabb and Tucker: Beaminster’s schools
  October ’12
• Bourton and Chaffeymoor: Booton Foot trails
  October ’12
• Dorset Walk: Dorchester’s river
  October ’12
• The Broadstone Music Series
  October ’12
• Yeoman Service: Royal Wessex Yeomanry
  October ’12
• Eype – a photo essay
  October ’12
• More than the sum of its parts: mosaicist Robert Field
  October ’12
• Dorset Granaries Photo Essay
  September ’12
• Gardens: The Old Smithy, Ibberton
  September ’12
• Forum for the future: Blandford’s DT11 Forum
  September ’12
• Witchampton: Short walk with Clive Hannay
  September ’12
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – porcelain fungus
  September ’12
• Geology of Dorset: The Cretaceous rocks
  September ’12
• Danger UXO (UneXploded Ordnance)
  September ’12
• The old order changes: Wareham’s school upheaval
  September ’12
• On a Wing and a Prayer: Felicity Irwin
  September ’12
• Viva Iford: Bournemouth’s radical Russian printers
  September ’12
• Booton Foot Trails: Evershot and Melbury Park
  September ’12
• Dorset Walk: Mosterton, South Perrott and Chedington
  September ’12
• Jess of the dairy fields
  September ’12
• Shaftesbury: in the footsteps of Treves
  August ’12
• ‘That’s the way to do it!’ Punch and Judy Professor Mark Paulton
  August ’12
• Melplash: a ‘specially special’ show
  August ’12
• Dorset’s Habitats – wild heathlands
  August ’12
• Booton Foot Trails – Peter Booton in Owermoigne
  August ’12
• Sturminster Newton: anything but a new town
  August ’12
• All the fun of the care: St John Ambulance at the GDSF
  August ’12
• Tanks! You’re Welcome: Bovington Tank Museum
  August ’12
• Eyes along the coast – National Coastwatch Institution
  August ’12
• Roger Guttridge – A Dorset Life For Me
  August ’12
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – Wasp Spider
  August ’12
• What the Sandbanks milkman saw: Tony O’Hara
  August ’12
• Dorset Walk – Studland, Ballard Down and Old Harry
  August ’12
• The Dorset Walk: Shipton Gorge, Burton Bradstock and Cogden Beach
  August ’12
• Kingston Lacy – Books do furnish a room
  July ’12
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – Young fox cub
  July ’12
• Dorset Gardens: ‘Ola’, Old Castle Road, Weymouth
  July ’12
• Jess of the Dairyfields – Jessica Miller A Dorset dairy farmer’s wife
  July ’12
• Iwerne Minster – the Titanic connection
  July ’12
• The young man and the sea – A Swanage skipper’s life
  July ’12
• Clive Hannay – view from a Dorset Artist
  July ’12
• Ashmore – a photo essay
  July ’12
• St Mark’s School, Talbot Woods – 150th anniversary
  July ’12
• Booton Foot Trails – Peter Booton in Symondsbury
  July ’12
• Dorset’s Bird Whisperer – Les Rowland
  July ’12
• Shaftesbury Abbey’s Ancient Psalter
  June ’12
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – June: Mullein moth caterpillar
  June ’12
• A Dorset Life for Me by Roger Guttridge
  June ’12
• Sturminster Newton – The Dorset Walk
  June ’12
• ‘Simply just wizard, what?’. Antonia Forest and Percy Westerman
  June ’12
• Dovecotes of Dorset
  June ’12
• A musical Theme: Dorset Lives, Stephen Warbeck
  June ’12
• Clive Hannay paints Ansty
  June ’12
• TS Royalist Passing St Aldhelm’s Head
  June ’12
• Lytchett Matravers – Booton Foot Trails
  June ’12
• Weymouth Holy Trinity Environmental Garden
  June ’12
• Diamond Jubilee then and now
  June ’12
• Blandford: 235 years of Messrs Hall and Woodhouse
  June ’12
• Bradford Abbas and Ryme Intrinseca
  May ’12
• Cerne Abbas: when the village was sold at auction
  May ’12
• Dorset Lives: Poole Pirates owner Matt Ford
  May ’12
• From ancient to modern: Lyme Regis Fossil Festival
  May ’12
• Christchurch’s MTBs: What happened to the wartime craft
  May ’12
• Fra H Newbery: an artist in Purbeck
  May ’12
• Booton Foot Trails: Chideock, Golden Cap and Seatown
  May ’12
• In the footsteps of Treves: the Winterbornes
  May ’12
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – May: Songthrushes
  May ’12
• Dorset Garden: 54 Lonnen Road, Colehill
  May ’12
• Dorset Habitats: Chalk downlands
  May ’12
• Sturminster Newton and the Pitt-Rivers family
  April ’12
• The cream of Dorset
  April ’12
• The Dorset Walk: Portland quarries and coasts
  April ’12
• The heart of art
  April ’12
• Rescuing Dorset’s literature
  April ’12
• ‘…a most obnoxious place’
  April ’12
• Melbury Hill, Compton Abbas and Fontmell Down
  April ’12
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – April
  April ’12
• Oborne: a photo essay
  April ’12
• Making scents of Dorset
  April ’12
• Cider’s Poole
  April ’12
• Pilsdon Manor and Community
  April ’12
• A potted history of Verwood
  March ’12
• Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – March
  March ’12
• Dorset Lives: ‘If you can speak you can sing’
  March ’12
• Dorset Garden: Knowle Farm, Uploders
  March ’12
• Dorset from the sea
  March ’12
• Cordite, clay and calluna
  March ’12
• ‘A spot of faint interest…’
  March ’12
• The Old Stone Wall at Stalbridge
  March ’12
• The Geology Of Dorset: The Jurassic rocks
  March ’12
• Shillingstone
  March ’12
• Haring around the Cerne Valley
  March ’12
• The Dorset Walk: Oakley Down, Pentridge Knoll and Bokerley Dyke
  March ’12
• Fate of clay
  February ’12
• A life in three acts
  February ’12
• Not as black as he’s painted
  February ’12
• On the buses
  February ’12
• ‘Cold enough to kill the Devil’
  February ’12
• ‘Start by doing what is necessary…’
  February ’12
• A unique place to live
  February ’12
• Wheel of misfortune
  February ’12
• Thought for food
  February ’12
• Near Golden Cap
  February ’12
• Dorset’s habitats: the coast
  February ’12
• Inside a Victorian rectory
  January ’12
• An island waits
  January ’12
• Centuries of care
  January ’12
• Great expectations
  January ’12
• If you go out in the woods today…
  January ’12
• Lulworth, Camera, Action!
  January ’12
• Puncknowle – a photographic essay
  January ’12
• A day in the life of Bournemouth Airport
  January ’12
• Giving Dorset – sign of a happy dog
  January ’12
• A taste of Dorset – Rich tea heritage
  December ’11
• Bidding for success
  December ’11
• The bridges of Weymouth
  December ’11
• An island life for me
  December ’11
• The land on which we live – The Geology of Dorset
  December ’11
• Charlie Mills refuses to be caned
  December ’11
• East Holme
  December ’11
• Dorset in Winter
  December ’11
• Orlando’s bloom
  November ’11
• From Shaftesbury towards Stalbridge
  November ’11
• Knight or knave?
  November ’11
• Grocer, diplomat, chieftan, pacifist
  November ’11
• Dorset Lives – A new leaf
  November ’11
• The Dorset Walk – Woolland, Belchalwell and Ibberton
  November ’11
• Dorset from the sea – Double discovery
  November ’11
• Return of a native
  November ’11
• The Curse of Frampton
  November ’11
• Blandford’s crowning glory
  November ’11
• David Noton’s Dorset
  November ’11
• Diary of a Dorset farmer’s wife
  November ’11
• From Trickett’s Cross to Heatherlands
  October ’11
• The Owld White Harse Wants Zetting to Rights
  October ’11
• The Dorset Walk – Corfe Castle and Common
  October ’11
• Tolpuddle – a photographic essay
  October ’11
• Tales of rope and beer
  October ’11
• Legging it in Dorset – Ashmore and Stubhampton
  October ’11
• The Daniels of Beaminster
  October ’11
• Hedging his bets
  October ’11
• From dereliction to destination
  October ’11
• Lyn and Malcolm’s Ferndown garden
  September ’11
• Mapping Dorset
  September ’11
• Button-up tunic, stiff boots, Wareham
  September ’11
• Rodney Legg (1947-2011) and Dorset Life
  September ’11
• Say ‘cheese’: it’s festival time!
  September ’11
• Alfred Palmer
  September ’11
• They loved it, yeah, yeah, yeah
  September ’11
• ‘So considerable an object…’
  August ’11
• Dorset’s redundant churches
  August ’11
• Leaves from a Dorset diary
  August ’11
• Continuing the tradition
  August ’11
• Dorset Houses – A burning question
  August ’11
• The Dorset Walk – Maiden Castle and Martinstown
  August ’11
• In the Footsteps of Treves, The Isle of Purbeck – Corfe Castle
  August ’11
• Giving Dorset – Not looking but searching
  August ’11
• What do you get if you cross…?
  August ’11
• Legging it in Dorset – Sutton Poyntz and Bincombe
  August ’11
• Dorset Lives – Stock pictures
  August ’11
• A bitter-sweet remembrance
  July ’11
• Back in the Doggett’s home
  July ’11
• Dorset Garden -Manor House, Lower Blandford St Mary
  July ’11
• After the Games have gone
  July ’11
• Tarrant Monkton – A photographic essay
  July ’11
• The face of Dorset – Rural East Dorset
  July ’11
• The Dorset Walk – Netherbury, Stoke Abbott and the Brit Valley Way
  July ’11
• ‘So you want to learn to sail?’
  July ’11
• Message… and a bottle
  July ’11
• Shaftesbury’s medical history
  June ’11
• Dorset’s hidden wonder
  June ’11
• Dorset Houses – The lost mansion
  June ’11
• Dorset Lives – His own man
  June ’11
• Friends indeed
  June ’11
• Whitcombe
  June ’11
• Leaves from a Dorset diary
  June ’11
• A Day in the Life of… Dorchester CAB
  June ’11
• Legging it in Dorset – Trent and Nether Compton
  June ’11
• The Dorset Walk – From Burton Green
  June ’11
• Where to watch birds in Dorset
  May ’11
• Weymouth’s donkeys
  May ’11
• Legging it in Dorset – Winterborne Stickland and Clenston
  May ’11
• The town camp races
  May ’11
• The Dorset Walk – Portesham, Abbotsbury and the Hellstone
  May ’11
• In the Footsteps of Treves – The North-East Outpost…
  May ’11
• Giving Dorset – ‘All his soul with music offered’
  May ’11
• Manor House, Beaminster
  May ’11
• Dorset Lives
  May ’11
• 1400 years of history?
  May ’11
• The Dorset walk – Chetnole and Leigh
  April ’11
• Dorset lives – A ‘rather tall’ man
  April ’11
• All the world’s a stage
  April ’11
• Maiden Newton in pictures
  April ’11
• Until the cows came home
  April ’11
• The Dorset ride
  April ’11
• Athelhampton House
  April ’11
• Once a folly, now a Jurassic jewel
  April ’11
• When the world was ruled from Dorset
  April ’11
• Dorset Sweet and Sour
  April ’11
• Heron’s Mead, East Burton
  March ’11
• Hardy and Tess of the D’Urbervilles
  March ’11
• ‘You can’t run it just as a business’
  March ’11
• A taste of Dorset – Oyster source
  March ’11
• Realm of the piers
  March ’11
• Dorset lives – A test of metal
  March ’11
• The Dorset walk – Green spaces and quiet roads
  March ’11
• Plants that eat insects!
  March ’11
• Purse Caundle
  March ’11
• Fertile ground- Gillingham Primary School
  March ’11
• Wimborne St Giles
  February ’11
• Corfu’s Dorset connections
  February ’11
• Giving Dorset – ‘Call My Bluff’ – with a Dorset twist
  February ’11
• Downes and outs
  February ’11
• The Archbishop of Blandford
  February ’11
• Something in the air
  February ’11
• In the Footsteps of Treves – Marshwood Vale and the West Border
  February ’11
• Dorset lives – From music to art, from dark to light
  February ’11
• Seeing beyond the prison uniform
  February ’11
• Dorset in winter
  February ’11
• The beating heart
  January ’11
• Dorset – a bird’s eye view, Eastbury House
  January ’11
• ‘We do wash sometimes’
  January ’11
• The joy of the new
  January ’11
• Dorset Lives – The Polymoth
  January ’11
• Three cheers for Sawbridge Drax
  January ’11
• ‘The temporary requirements of mere fashion’
  January ’11
• Poundbury is home
  January ’11
• The phoenix of Christchurch
  January ’11
• Kingston
  January ’11
• Charting Poole Harbour
  December ’10
• A nobler sense of duty
  December ’10
• Curiosities of Wimborne
  December ’10
• Dorset lives – In the public service
  December ’10
• Hardy and The Trumpet Major
  December ’10
• The Loss of the Halsewell
  December ’10
• Taste of Dorset – Vinny, vidi, vici
  December ’10
• ‘Whitehead is a scamp.’
  December ’10
• Chalbury
  December ’10
• And the night shall be filled with music
  December ’10
• In the shadow of the Chase
  November ’10
• The Dorset walk – Plush and Lyscombe
  November ’10
• In the footsteps of Treves – Hilton and Bingham’s Melcombe
  November ’10
• On the way back
  November ’10
• ‘A tunnel wide’
  November ’10
• Captain Swing was here!
  November ’10
• Dorset lives – Chipping away
  November ’10
• Norburton Hall
  November ’10
• THE FACE OF DORSET – ‘That special part of Dorset’
  November ’10
• Christmas shopping in Dorchester
  November ’10
• Ferndown then and now
  October ’10
• Farm favourites
  October ’10
• The valley of the deer
  October ’10
• Burton Bradstock
  October ’10
• Legging it in Dorset
  October ’10
• Barnes in Love
  October ’10
• Beauty and brawn
  October ’10
• Dorset lives – Making the collections work harder
  October ’10
• Wet and wild in Weymouth
  October ’10
• The Dorset walk – Cranborne
  October ’10
• Part of the Madding Crowd
  October ’10
• For the health of the community
  September ’10
• We have him
  September ’10
• Marshwood
  September ’10
• The Dairy House, Melbury Osmund
  September ’10
• Et in Arcadia ego
  September ’10
• A taste of Dorset – Baking for a century
  September ’10
• A wartime childhood in Swanage
  September ’10
• The missing millions
  September ’10
• Keeping the sea at bay
  August ’10
• A day in the life of Wareham Quay
  August ’10
• Cogden
  August ’10
• In the footsteps of Treves
  August ’10
• From railway to trailway
  August ’10
• Art with a meaning
  August ’10
• Bridport’s arts hub
  August ’10
• Radio Therapy
  July ’10
• A funeral at Tyneham
  July ’10
• When Wimborne went wild
  July ’10
• 150 years on
  July ’10
• Mary Anning and me
  June ’10
• Dorset lives – Seventy years of farming
  June ’10
• Chettle
  June ’10
• Dorset lives — ‘I quite literally enjoy whatever I’m working on!’
  May ’10
• Ages past, years to come
  May ’10
• Dragoons, Yeomanry and Signallers
  May ’10
• ‘Try and remember him!’
  May ’10
• Going forward together
  May ’10
• In the Footsteps of Treves — Wimborne St Giles
  May ’10
• Dorchester’s river
  May ’10
• The River Stour: a photographic essay
  May ’10
• Poole’s wait for a war memorial
  April ’10
• Dorset Lives — Deserving Trust
  April ’10
• Hinton Martell
  April ’10
• The Face of Dorset — The Blackmore Vale
  April ’10
• Six-legged wonders
  April ’10
• The finest parish church in England?
  April ’10
• Giving Dorset — Lost and hound
  April ’10
• War comes to Beaminster
  April ’10
• More memories of a Weymouth cub reporter
  March ’10
• Dorset lives — Art of oak
  March ’10
• Pampering pigs
  March ’10
• ‘Doing your own thing’
  March ’10
• Steeple
  March ’10
• The beginnings of Bournemouth
  March ’10
• Colonial leftovers
  March ’10
• Following in Roman footsteps
  March ’10
• Dorset – a bird’s eye view
  March ’10
• Palmy skies
  March ’10
• Maiden Castle to Penbury Knoll
  February ’10
• Save Blandford’s church!
  February ’10
• The smuggling churchwarden
  February ’10
• Dorset lives — A glass half-full
  February ’10
• A miscellany of Dorsetshire memorials
  February ’10
• Growing up on Portland in the ’twenties and ’thirties
  February ’10
• Royalty, poets and moss
  February ’10
• The water that is passed
  February ’10
• Wheat over water
  February ’10
• In the footsteps of Treves — Poxwell and Osmington
  February ’10
• Prints of England
  January ’10
• Plough Monday in Dorchester
  January ’10
• Bridehead revisited
  January ’10
• Giving Dorset — ‘To climb as high as they can dream’
  January ’10
• A day in the life of a country rector
  January ’10
• Not worth defending?
  January ’10
• Dorset lives — Model citizen
  January ’10
• ‘Small neat ears and thick silky hair’
  January ’10
• Raising standards and horizons
  January ’10
• The face of Dorset — Cranborne Chase
  December ’09
• Herbaceous gardening at its best
  December ’09
• Pamela Hambro and the lost world of Milton Abbey
  December ’09
• 150 years of the railway in Gillingham
  December ’09
• Bradford Abbas
  December ’09
• Dorset lives — Tuning in
  December ’09
• A Captain Courageous
  December ’09
• A taste of Dorset — Honeybuns
  December ’09
• Theatre of dreams
  December ’09
• A Dorset Christmas
  December ’09
• ‘This wonderful wilderness’
  November ’09
• Tolkien in Bournemouth and Dorset
  November ’09
• In the footsteps of Treves — The Tollers, Wynford Eagle, Rampisham and Evershot
  November ’09
• How do they fit it all in?
  November ’09
• How the mighty atom came to Dorset
  November ’09
• Staying behind
  November ’09
• Taking their toll
  November ’09
• Dorset’s plague port
  November ’09
• Dorset lives — Wootton’s woodmen
  November ’09
• The Dorset walk — Cranborne and Wimborne St Giles
  November ’09
• Dorset at first light
  October ’09
• Moreton
  October ’09
• The face of Dorset — South Dorset
  October ’09
• ‘Costly and beautiful treasures’
  October ’09
• Giving Dorset — Lighten their darkness
  October ’09
• Lilliput’s industrial past
  October ’09
• Editor Extraordinaire – Donald Mildenhall MBE
  October ’09
• The Dorset walk — Winterbornes Clenston, Stickland and Houghton
  October ’09
• Damory of Blandford
  October ’09
• Legging it in Dorset — Cann and Compton Abbas
  October ’09
• Picturing Dorset
  September ’09
• West Morden
  September ’09
• Walking through Dorchester’s history
  September ’09
• The Dorset Walk — Creech, Corfe Castle and Knowle Hill
  September ’09
• A day in the life of the Bournemouth International Centre
  September ’09
• Corscombe House
  September ’09
• Legging it in Dorset — East Chaldon and White Nothe
  September ’09
• Dorset pub stroll — The Charlton Inn
  September ’09
• Bold as brass
  September ’09
• In the Footsteps of Treves — Lyme Regis
  August ’09
• Legging it in Dorset — Kimmeridge to Worbarrow
  August ’09
• The Dorset walk — Chalmington, Chantmarle and Wraxall
  August ’09
• Sherborne then and now
  August ’09
• ‘It’s like an old-fashioned village now!’
  August ’09
• Llama karma
  August ’09
• More to it than a brown loaf
  August ’09
• Parnham House, a family home again
  August ’09
• Dorset pub stroll — The Greyhound Inn
  July ’09
• Legging it in Dorset — Thorncombe and Forde
  July ’09
• Dorset — a bird’s eye view — Christchurch Harbour
  July ’09
• The Dorset Walk — Thornford, Leweston and Lillington
  July ’09
• New work unlocks the secrets of Christchurch’s workhouse
  July ’09
• Gillingham in festival mood
  July ’09
• ‘A typical Dorset Village’
  July ’09
• Elegance in historic surroundings
  July ’09
• The Priest’s House Museum
  July ’09
• Say hello to Old Harry
  July ’09
• Legging it in Dorset — Woods of Cranborne Chase
  June ’09
• The Dorset walk — Beaminster, Netherbury and Stoke Abbott
  June ’09
• Dorset — a bird’s eye view — Lulworth Cove
  June ’09
• Wareham’s air raid
  June ’09
• A taste of Dorset — A pint of piddle, please…
  June ’09
• Giving back to Portland
  June ’09
• Bettiscombe
  June ’09
• Colours of the Dorset Coast
  June ’09
• Legging it in Dorset
  May ’09
• The Dorset walk — Purbeck heath and forest
  May ’09
• A schoolboy at Wimborne Minster
  May ’09
• Stalbridge’s historian
  May ’09
• Massacre at Slapton Sands — the great Portland cover-up
  May ’09
• Back to the future
  May ’09
• In the footsteps of Treves — Trent
  May ’09
• The face of Dorset — The hills of West Dorset
  May ’09
• Dorset in spring and early summer
  May ’09
• Sturminster Marshall
  April ’09
• Eating out with Bertie
  April ’09
• Dorset — a bird’s eye view
  April ’09
• Defoe in Dorset
  April ’09
• The Dorset Walk — Tarrant Monkton and Manswood
  April ’09
• Christchurch’s ‘fraught and dangerous business’
  April ’09
• Saturday Driver
  April ’09
• Inspired To Learn
  April ’09
• An Unforgettable Evening
  April ’09
• ‘A Long and Intimate Relationship’
  April ’09
• The Dorset walk — Eype Down and West Bay
  March ’09
• An Uphill Challenge
  March ’09
• Colin Varndell’s wildlife diary — March
  March ’09
• Rolling Out The Barrelhouse
  March ’09
• ‘The Lively Old lady’
  March ’09
• How Arne Saved Holton Heath
  March ’09
• When Blandford Burnt
  March ’09
• In Another World
  March ’09
• Bradford Peverell
  March ’09
• Curiosities of Dorset Churches
  March ’09
• Poole and Art Deco
  February ’09
• Dorset pub stroll
  February ’09
• From baths to drill hall to cinema to theatre
  February ’09
• The Purbeck ‘volcano’
  February ’09
• On the prowl
  February ’09
• Beaminster then and now
  February ’09
• Decay or restoration?
  February ’09
• Dorset — a bird’s eye view — The Eastern Purbeck Hills
  February ’09
• In the footsteps of Treves — The road to Blandford
  February ’09
• Some Lost Castles Of Dorset
  February ’09
• Dorset pub stroll
  January ’09
• The Dorset Drive — Avon, Allen, Tarrant and Stour
  January ’09
• Tennis for Real in Dorset
  January ’09
• Lady of the Palms and Paddy Fields
  January ’09
• The (almost) Complete Guide
  January ’09
• A Soldier of Dorset
  January ’09
• Osmington
  January ’09
• Riding The Rails
  January ’09
• Dorset’s Rivers
  January ’09
• ‘The sooner they get on with it, the better’
  December ’08
• Horizontal Apostles
  December ’08
• William Barnes and me
  December ’08
• Eating out with Bertie
  December ’08
• The Clay Boats of Poole
  December ’08
• The Home Front in Wimborne
  December ’08
• A glorious way to spend a Sunday afternoon
  December ’08
• Pimperne
  December ’08
• The Dorset walk — Ashmore, Compton Abbas and Fontmell Magna
  November ’08
• Eating out with Freddie
  November ’08
• A Nation of Shopkeepers
  November ’08
• Libya to Lulworth
  November ’08
• In the footsteps of Treves — The land behind the Chesil Beach
  November ’08
• The Flowers of Dorset’s Riversides
  November ’08
• Birds That Kill
  November ’08
• To The Manor Re-born
  November ’08
• True Blue
  November ’08
• The Dorset Walk — Chetnole, Melbury Osmond and Melbury Bubb
  October ’08
• Spellbound In Darkness
  October ’08
• Dorset Pub Stroll
  October ’08
• A Portland Success Story
  October ’08
• Frampton Village
  October ’08
• Sanctuary in Ferndown
  October ’08
• Dorset in Autumn
  October ’08
• “Vile Ministers” and “Poor Silly Creatures”
  October ’08
• A Blandford Institution
  October ’08
• Wealth, a martyr’s bones and dissolution
  October ’08
• East Creech
  September ’08
• The Dorset walk
  September ’08
• Dorset pub stroll
  September ’08
• Eating Out with Freddie
  September ’08
• Telling The Story Of Gillingham
  September ’08
• A Dorset Love Story
  September ’08
• With the ATS in Weymouth
  September ’08
• Down to the hollow
  September ’08
• Dorset’s rivers — The Stour: Blandford to Wimborne
  September ’08
• Verwood then and now
  August ’08
• West Bay
  August ’08
• Inn With Freddie — The Anchor
  August ’08
• Legging It In Dorset — Compton Valence
  August ’08
• Planes For All To See
  August ’08
• Unsung Hero
  August ’08
• The Hope Is Great
  August ’08
• In the footsteps of Treves — Studland
  August ’08
• ‘The wonders of my garden’
  August ’08
• Milton Abbas
  July ’08
• Down to the sea in ships
  July ’08
• Inn with Freddie — The King’s Arms
  July ’08
• Eating out with Bertie — Rajasthan Restaurant
  July ’08
• Legging it in Dorset — Portland
  July ’08
• Bournemouth’s flying circuses
  July ’08
• The Dorset Walk — Puncknowle and West Bexington
  July ’08
• All change?
  July ’08
• A bird’s eye view — The Dorset coast from Gad Cliff to White Nothe
  July ’08
• Shaftesbury and the High House Press
  July ’08
• Small but perfectly formed
  July ’08
• Eating out with Freddie — The Old Granary
  June ’08
• Legging it in Dorset — Pentridge and Martin Down
  June ’08
• Roads to the Isle
  June ’08
• The Dorset walk — Cheselbourne and Bingham’s Melcombe
  June ’08
• A happy band
  June ’08
• A chequered history but a secure future?
  June ’08
• Piddlehinton
  June ’08
• Fiddleford Mill and Girdler’s Coppice
  June ’08