Getting About in Dorset: Transport and Communications in Historic Dorset

4 February 2006

This Saturday Day School at the Dorset County Museum, Dorchester, is intended to provide an introduction to some of the themes in the study of the transport and communications in and outside of the county. The lectures will include recent research on the turnpike roads, the carrier system, communications, the coming of the railways, and shipping.

Programme

9.45am--10.15am: Registration and coffee
10.15am--10.25am: Introduction
10.25am--11.10am: Dr Peter Stanier: Dorset turnpikes and their legacy
11.15am--11.45am: Roger Grimley: Carrier Networks and Road Transport
11.45am--12.00pm: Questions to morning speakers
12.00pm--1.30pm: Lunch (not provided)
1.30pm--2.15pm: George Tatham: The Development of Newspapers: How Communications reached 18th Century Dorset
2.15pm--3.00pm: Brian Jackson: How the Railways Came to Dorset
3.00pm--3.30pm: Tea
3.30pm--4.15pm: Shipping (lecture and speaker to be announced)
4.20pm--4.45pm: Questions to speakers, summary and close

Advance booking essential, tickets £15.00 from the Museum.