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Local Author Sheena Dearness Book Launch ‘Shadows’ & Signing

Grosvenor Arms High Street, Shaftesbury

Have you read ‘A Red Haze’ - the first of my Dorset-based trilogy starting in the 1946 post-war period? In the book, fourteen and a half year old Meg Taylor faces circumstances far beyond her control that forces her into an environment where her future appears to be mapped out for her. Her new life […]

Free

Sherborne Travel Writing Festival

Powell Theatre, Abbey Road, Sherborne

Venture on foot, by bicycle, astride an elephant - or even on board the Rolling Stones’ private jet - from Mughal India to modern Istanbul, and from the Bronze Age Aegean to the Battle of Hastings, with the UK’s leading travel writers, historians and broadcasters. ​ Join Mevan Babakar, Alexander Christie-Miller, Horatio Clare, Nandini Das, […]

Stalbridge Sold exhibition

Stalbridge Village Hall Lower Road, Stalbridge

Stalbridge History Society presents a NEW exhibition ‘Stalbridge Sold- A town under the hammer’, at Stalbridge Hall from Friday 13th June to Sunday 15th June 2025 We invite you to join us for a trip back to 1918. Our main exhibition illustrates what life was like for Stalbridge residents during a time of turmoil. The […]

Free