Dorset County Chronicle
The Dorset coverage is very odd – the Sherborne Mercury is available for 1789-1867, but it’s subtitled the Western Flying Post and the Yeovil Mercury, and is clearly focused on northern Dorset and Somerset.
The newspaper produced in Dorset’s market town (Dorchester) was the Dorset County Chronicle, but there are ONLY five years’ worth (1863-67) of issues on the British Newspaper Archives site.
Dorchester was the legal, political, trade and administrative capital of the county and the Dorset County Chronicle would be the best newspaper for tracing the county’s history. The Chronicle was published from 1824.
Other counties in the south west have newspapers on BNA originating from their market town – there are, for example, three newspapers for Exeter in Devon, mostly overlapping. Why so little for Dorset?
Mark Collyer
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Niall Stoddart
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This is seven years ago and nothing yet. What is happening about this?
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Grant
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Heartily agree, Mark, regarding Dorset coverage. Would especially like to see 1820s-60s issues of the Chronicle.
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Stuart Morris
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Much more of Dorset County Chronicle, and the Southern Times. This would fill a big gap in the coverage of Dorset.