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It would be fair to describe the great English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy as a Renaissance man, although he may have had a more somber viewpoint than many. Born on June 2, 1840, near the market town of Dorchester, England, and son of a stonemason and builder, Hardy lacked the funds to pursue a top-tier education. Instead, he learned architecture, for which he exhibited prodigious skill. In 1862, he enrolled in King’s College in London, where he won prizes from the Royal Institute of British Architects and others for his work on a church and railway station. With his plebian upbringin...

PRIZED Thomas Hardy archives will return to Dorset after a successful fundraising campaign. Dorset Archives Trust launched a campaign in early December to raise the final £5,000 of a total £50,000 required to enable the purchase of the collection by Dorset History Centre from a private dealer in London. And the funds were raised within days - meaning the collection of the famed author's manuscripts and documents can return to the county. The archives are now set to be displayed at the Dorset History Centre where residents will be able to view them. A spokesman for DAT said: "We ar...

Map reveals the most popular famous people linked to Dorset towns AN interactive map reveals the most searched for famous people in towns across Dorset. The map, which can be found through this link, uses the most popular searches on Wikipedia to change the face of the county. Towns and cities are instead replaced by famous residents or people born or connected to that place. The People Map of the UK website is based on data collected and processed from Wikipedia from July 2015 to May 2019. Using the map, here are the most searched for people from each area of Dorset.