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Category Archives: history
House History
© Anne Brown Dec 2024 At our meeting 4 December 2024 following Bryan Phillips’ presentation on ‘Researching Local History’, many members expressed an interest in studying their house history. Bryan gave an indication of how to start your house history … Continue reading
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Winchester College Archives – new findings
©Bryan Phillips Oct 2024 A huge thank you to Winchester College and their archivist, Suzanne Foster, for helping the Milton Abbas Local History Group with its medieval research. There are early manorial documents concerning many of Milton Abbey’s manors. These … Continue reading
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New Season – we’re ready!
©Bryan Phillips Sep 2024 The Milton Abbas Local History Group is about to embark on its new season of talks and research. The talks will be focused on the history of Milton Abbas and they will mostly be given by … Continue reading
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Lyscombe
©Bryan Phillips Apr 2024 Another phase in the history of Lyscombe has just opened up – literally. 335 hectares of chalk downland has been purchased by, and will be managed for rewilding by Dorset Wildlife Trust. For details see their … Continue reading
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Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society
The Milton Abbas Local History Group recently have been given some 30 volumes of this publication. They are now available for members to borrow from our library. A catalogue of all the articles is already available online. Most of the … Continue reading
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Wool Stealers of Milton Abbas
The following are a huge cast of interrelated characters named by Clive Barnes in his research on the Wool stealers gang of 1836. Why not find out more about these people and what life, poverty and justice was like in the … Continue reading
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Christmas Tree Festival 2022
Thanks to Ann Fookes who organised the tree and to Nicky Griffin for decorating it with images of the medieval tiles of St Catherine’s Chapel. This is the contribution from the Milton Abbas Local History Group for this year. There … Continue reading
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BALH The British Association for Local History
The Milton Abbas Local History Group has been a member of BALH since January 2022. The link to their website together with the member’s discount code has been at the head of all 10 issues of the member Newsletter this … Continue reading
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The Reredos of Milton Abbey Church
A dissertation by James Bowler at the University of St Andrews has recently come to our notice which is titled ‘The Life and Afterlife of an English Reredos: A Contextual, Restorative and Aesthetic Analysis of the Great Screen of Milton … Continue reading
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What a treasure!
Overseers of the Poor Account Books It is six years ago when I was in Chris Fookes’ shed that I first saw three original Overseers of the Poor Books. They had somehow been saved by the Fookes family of Milton … Continue reading
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Milton Abbas Local History Group, Dorset, UK 