[caption id="attachment_1398" align="alignright" width="351"] abbey snow[/caption] Saturday 27 November, 2.00-5.00pm and Tuesday 30 November, 10.00am to 12.00 noon Come to the Museum Gift Shop and buy your Xmas cards and presents early! We have Abbey Xmas cards and others, and lots of lovely Xmas gifts: books, jewellery (including special Xmas earrings), as well as a wide range of stocking fillers for children. Also our popular greetings cards for birthdays and other occasions. Edith Stedman’s Yankee in an English Village The perfect Xmas present! To mark the 60th anniversary of the Museum’s opening by Edith, we’ve reissued her charming and amusing account of life in Dorchester during the 1950s-1970s, with detailed explanatory notes by Margot Metcalfe. Beautifully illustrated with photos of Edith and the village during her time here. Price £9.99. Also available: Edith Stedman’s Monastery Guest House Cook Book Price £7.50. Please be assured that you’ll feel safe in the Museum as we have careful Covid-19 protection protocols in place.

We’re back!! A DATE FOR THE DIARY - Wednesday 24th November at 7.30pm in the Abbey. The Historical Society’s Christmas Miscellany To celebrate our emergence from pandemic restrictions, we invite you to come and join us for drinks and nibbles and to hear from three local authors about their latest books. Peter Adamson will be talking about his book Landmark in Time: the world of the Wittenham Clumps. Margot Metcalfe will be talking about the just published 50th anniversary edition of A Yankee in an English Village, the remarkable Edith Stedman’s memoir of her time in Dorchester. James Pratt will talk about his book Through the Gears, Through the Years which describes his career in motor sport against the background of his family’s life in Dorchester There will be a chance to buy the books at the end of the meeting, or at the Museum’s Christmas opening, and to hear about our programme for 2022. We have some really fascinating talks coming up. Books make perfect Christmas presents, particularly for those with an historical bent, so come along and support local authors. ALL WELCOME