The Dorset Year Book

Among the content of the 2023 Dorset Year Book

  • Cerne Abbas Giant

  • Burton Bradstock

  • Summer Assizes in 1880

  • Commuting from Siberia

  • Dorset Witches

  • Ships sunk in Portland Harbour

  • Tyneham & Imber

  • Obituaries

  • Book Reviews

  • Dorset Poems

  • The Dovecote Press

  • Lost Dorset Towns

  • Lyme Regis Museum

  • The Antiques Roadshow

  • Poole Harbour Trust

  • Broadstone Golf Club

  • Murder Most Foul

  • Angelika Seik

This edition is packed with fascinating and informative articles covering the people and places across Dorset

Copies may be obtained from the following: Weymouth – Books Afloat: Dorchester – Tourist Information Centre and Waterstones: Bridport – Waterstones and Tourist Office: Shaftesbury - Tourist Information: Wimborne – Gullivers Bookshop: Poole – D.J Brookings Bookshop (Upper Parkstone): Portland – Cards and Celebrations(Easton). Copies can be obtained by post at cost of £10 including postage by contacting 01305 833700

Dorset Year Book Editor

Editorship vacant. All enquiries to membership@societyofdorsetmen.co.uk

Past Year Book Editors

Sir Newman Flower 1920 - 32

Stanley J. Galpin 1933 - 34

H. L. I. Watkins 1935 - 37

Ashley C. Rogers 1937 - 50

F. C. H. Dennett 1951 - 60

N. J. (Nat) Byles 1961 - 78

Fred Langford 1979 - 94

George Lanning 1995 - 2000

Peter Pitman 2000 - 2012

Trevor Vacher-Dean 2012 - 2014

Selwyn Williams 2014 - 2019

Nick Wright 2019 - 2023