September

19: Wednesday, 7.30 pm
Music Society Concert: The Carducci String Quartet perform works by Haydn, Britten and Beethoven.

Tickets £12.00 (children and students £2.00) available from Museum Reception.

21: Friday, 7.30 pm
Archaeology Lecture: "More than just a Ruin" by Nancy Grace, National Trust Archaeologist. 20 years of excavation by the National Trust on the first Dorset site designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

26: Wednesday, 6.30pm

Geology Lecture: "Sea-level Change Past and Future: A Jurassic Coast Perspective". Causes of sea-level change during the Mesozoic and Pleistocene and insights they give about possible future changes, by Chris Wilson, Emeritus Professor, The Open University.

28: Friday, 7.00 for 7.30pm

Dorchester Association Lecture: "The Dorchester Tapestry" by Suzanne Finch.

Some other events, especially those organised by special interest groups, can be found at:
http://www.dorsetcountymuseum.org/research/calendar.html

October

2: Tuesday, 6.00 for 6.30pm

Literary Lecture: Sylvia Townsend Warner's Somerset. Celebrating the publication of a new edition of Somerset, and looking at the Shell and Elek guides of the 1940s. By Peter Tolhurst.

£6.00 per lecture or £30.00 for the complete series.

9: Tuesday, 6.00 for 6.30pm

Literary Lecture: Readings from Ghosts on the Roof: A Threnody for a Lost World by John Cowper Powys. Followed by the launch of Descents of Memory, Morine Krissdóttir's biography of John Cooper Powys. By Morine Krissdóttir, Neil Curry and Roger Peers.

£6.00 per lecture or £30.00 for the complete series.

10: Wednesday, 6.30pm

Geology Lecture: "The Age of Oil". The global picture of carbon and Earth processes in climate change, by Dr Daniel Clark-Lowes, Nubian Consulting, Clark-Lowes Consulting.

16: Tuesday, 6.00 for 6.30pm

Literary Lecture: "Writing Biographies". Alan Chedzoy, at work on his fifth biography, will talk about the principles involved, with illustrations from himself and other people.

£6.00 per lecture or £30.00 for the complete series.

17: Wednesday, 7.30 pm
Music Society Concert: Piers Lane presents an evening of Chopin.

Tickets £12.00 (children and students £2.00) available from Museum Reception.

18: Thursday, 1.00 to 2.00pm

Free Lunchtime Concert: The Dorchester Trio perform works by Mozart and Beethoven.

23: Tuesday, 6.00 for 6.30pm

Literary Lecture: "Hidden Histories". The author, Louise Parker, reveals the secrets of her book on African and Caribbean people in Dorset.

£6.00 per lecture or £30.00 for the complete series.

26: Friday, 7.00 for 7.30pm

Dorchester Association Lecture: "Migration from Dorset" by Dr Diana Trenchard PhD. 25th Anniversary lecture with wine.

27: Saturday, 10.30am to 4.30pm

Secondhand Book Sale: Sale of good quality books: hardback or paperback, fact or fiction. Donation of suitable books very welcome.  Fundraising event.

30: Tuesday, 6.00 for 6.30pm

Literary Lecture: "Hardy and Fate". David Grylls, Oxford scholar and author, will discuss the question, "Did Hardy believe in fate?"

£6.00 per lecture or £30.00 for the complete series.

Some other events, especially those organised by special interest groups, can be found at:
http://www.dorsetcountymuseum.org/research/calendar.html

November

2: Friday, 7.30 pm
Archaeology Lecture: "Aerial Archaeology: Past, Present and Future" by Dr Robert Bewley, aerial archaeologist.

6: Tuesday, 6.00 for 6.30pm

Literary Lecture: "No Ordinary Tourist". The diaries of a truant Duke and high-handed archaeologist touring the Mediterranean in 1827. By Jonathan Roberts.

£6.00 per lecture or £30.00 for the complete series.

7: Wednesday, 7.30 pm
Music Society Concert: Ellie Fagg (violin) and Alasdair Beatson (piano) perfrom works by Beethoven and Brahms.

Tickets £12.00 (children and students £2.00) available from Museum Reception.

8: Thursday, 7.30 pm
Romney Lecture: "A Man of Eminent Talents" Gwen Yarker, independent art historian, presents a history of Thomas Rackett and his portrait by George Romney.

Free entry.

9: Friday, 1.00 to 2.00pm

Free Lunchtime Concert: Cornertones Jazz Quartet. A programme of 1930s and 1940s jazz standards including Gershwin, Ellington, Porter, Charmichael and Kern.

17: Saturday, 10.00am - 5.00pm

Day School: The Making of Dorset's Boundary: What, Where and Why? James Campbell and others look at the making of the shire border and borderland. Dorset Local History Group with Dorset History Centre. £12.50 (students £5.00)

21: Wednesday, 6.30pm

Geology Lecture: "Recent Work on Chesil Beach". A new understanding of the Beach and its susceptibility to climate change, by Dr Malcom Ray, University of Portsmouth.

23: Friday, 7.00 for 7.30pm

Dorchester Association Lecture: "The Roman Invasion of Dorset" by Keith Perryman.

24: Saturday, 7.30pm (doors open and bar available from 7.00pm)

The Yetties in Concert: One of England's most popular folk groups with their unique combination of songs and stories. Cash bar available. Fundraising event.

Some other events, especially those organised by special interest groups, can be found at:
http://www.dorsetcountymuseum.org/research/calendar.html

December

7: Friday, 6.30 pm
Archaeology Lecture: "Stonehenge - It's Only Rock 'n' Roll" by Professor Tim Darvill, Bournemouth University. Wine and mince pies will precede this Christmas lecture.

12: Wednesday, 6.30pm

Geology Lecture: "Monitoring and Responding to Change Along the Jurassic Coast". The use of photography in monitoring and illustrating coastal processes and change. By Richard Edmonds and Doreen Smith, World Heritage Team and Dorset Geologists' Association Group. Special Christmas meeting with drinks.

13: Thursday, 6.00pm - 8.00pm

Christmas Cracker: A festive evening with mulled wine and mince pies.

14: Friday, 7.30pm

Music for a Christmas Evening: The Thomas Hardye School Choir present a programme of carols and festive readings. £12.50 with wine and canapés. Fundraising event.

Some other events, especially those organised by special interest groups, can be found at:
http://www.dorsetcountymuseum.org/research/calendar.html