Geology, Palaeontology and Science William Buckland (1784 – 1856), palaeontologist – see related blog post Henry de La Beche (1796 – 1855), palaeontologist – see related blog post Mary Anning… READ MORE

The Civil War and the Siege of Lyme… Mary Tudor called Lyme ‘that heretic town’ and stopped an annual grant for maintenance of the Cobb. The town seems often to… READ MORE

“The Cobb”, Lyme’s iconic man-made harbour wall, features in Jane Austen’s Persuasion published in of 1818 and John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant’s Woman of 1969. It was of great economic… READ MORE

Thomas Coram was born in Coombe Street, Lyme Regis in 1668. His mother died when he was three years old and at eleven he went to sea. He spent much… READ MORE

The early 19th Century must have been a fascinating time to be in Lyme Regis. The latter part of the 18th Century had seen a huge rise in interest from… READ MORE

This is a series of papers about major or favourite objects in the Museum. It started as a series of talks, Ten Objects in the Museum, but has been expanded…. READ MORE

John Gould was born in Lyme Regis on the 14th September 1804. He was therefore just five years younger than Mary Anning and it seems extraordinary that these two children,… READ MORE

It was soon recognised that this was a critical time to research and record the farms of the area as many were disappearing or being redeveloped. Originally knowing of 28… READ MORE

Introduction Many of us think that ethnic minorities in Dorset are very recent – that Dorset people saw their first black person in the Second World War when black American… READ MORE

This is a series of papers produced to accompany a winter exhibition on Industrial Lyme at the Lyme Regis Malthouse in 2010-11. It mainly covered industries where there were no… READ MORE