Public Lectures and Readings

William Barnes' Lectures and Poetry Readings at Working Men's Institutes and Adult Classes 1851-1880

There was no Literary and Scientific Institute in Dorchester but Barnes was co-founder and secretary of the Dorset County Museum. He programmed lectures balanced between Literary and Science for the 51/52 season to take place at the venue.

1851

• Weymouth Literary and Scientific Institute - Anglo Saxons, Founding of the English Kingdom
• Dorchester - Light and Heat

1852

• Sturminster Literary and Scientific Institute - Anglo Saxons and the Founding of the English Kingdom

1853

• Dorchester - Gold and Social Wealth

1855

• Blandford - Anglo Saxons

1856

• Wareham - Glimpses of the Saxons in England, especially in Dorset
• Wimborne - Glimpses of the Saxons in England, especially in Dorset
• Corfe Castle - Literature
• Dorchester - Ancient Britons I and Ancient Britons II

1857

• Dorchester Town Hall Working Men's Mutual Improvement Society - Chairing a debate on Dreams Clairvoyance Presented to William Barnes a silver pencil case with the inscription.
• Sherborne - Ancient Britons
• Sturminster - Ancient Britons
• Corfe Castle - The Atmosphere
• Dorchester - Debate on Dreams
• Wareham - The Atmosphere
• Dorchester - Labour ad Gold
• Dorchester - The Beautiful and Art

1858

• Wareham - The Beautiful and Art
• Poole - Ancient Britain and the Britons
• Sherborne - The Beautiful and Art
• Mere - The Beautiful and Art
• Weymouth - The Beautiful and Art
• Dorchester - Labour and Gold
• Wimborne - Labour and Gold
• Dorchester - Dorset Poems

1859

• Corfe Castle - Dorset Poems
• Blandford - Crown Hotel The Beautiful and Good in Nature and Art
• Wareham - Dorset Poems
• Mere - National School Dorset Poems
• Shaftesbury - Dorset Dialect and Poems
• Poole - Dorset Dialect and Poems
• Sherborne - Ancient Poems
• Bridport - Lecture on Literature
• Dorchester - Dorset Poems
• Weymouth - Dorset Poems
• Portland - Labour and Gold
• Maiden Newton - Dorset Poems

1860

• Blandford - Literature and Dorset Poems
• Sherborne - Dorset Dialect
• Wimborne - Literature
• Maiden Newton - Literature
• Weymouth - Readings in the Vernacular
• Warminster - Readings in the Vernacular

1861

• Sherborne - Labour and Gold
• Bridport - Dorset Poems
• Weymouth - Dorset Poems
• Wimborne - Labour and Gold
• Blandford - Ancient Briton
• Salisbury - Dorset Dialect
• Shaftesbury - Dorset Poems
• Mere - Dorset Poems

1862

• Sherborne - The Rise and Progress of Trial by Jury in England
• Mere - The Rise and Progress of Trial by Jury in England
• Shaftesbury - The Rise and Progress of Trial by Jury in England
• Bridport - Literature
• Blandford - Literature
• Warminster - Dorset Dialect
• Weymouth - Origin, Progress and Benefits of Trial by Jury in England
• Frome - Western English Dialects
• Sherborne - Dorset Poems
• Devizes - Western English Dialects
• Romsey - Dialect
• Bridport - Dorset Poems

1863

• Shaftesbury - Dorset Poems
• Trowbridge - Dialect
• Poyntinhton - Dorset Poems
• Frome - Lectures
• Salisbury - Lectures
• Dorchester - Preaching at St Peters Church Nov 15th 1863
• Buckland Newton - Dorset Poems
• Glanville Wootton - Dorset Poems
• London, Somerset House - Lecture to the Philological Society
• Blandford - Dorset Poems

1864

• Shaftesbury - Language
• Bristol - YMCA Dialects
• Trowbridge - The Western English People
• Christchurch - Dorset Poems
• Romsey - Dorset Poems
• Sturminster - The Western English People
• Wareham - Literature
• Swanage, Mowlem Institute - Dorset Poems
• Sherborne - The House and House Life
• Lymington - Western English Speech
• Allington - Literature
• Bridport - Dorset Poems
• Frome - The House and House Life
• Wellington - South Western English Dialects
• Dorchester - The House and House Life
• Lyndhurst - Dorset Poems
• Romey - Dorset Poems
• Blandford - Lecture

1865

• Crewkerne - Lecture
• Shaftesbury - Lecture
• Portland - South-Western English People
• Dorchester , Dorset County Museum - Dorset Poems
• Lymington - South-Western English People
• Allington - The House and House Life
• Bristol YMCA - Dorset Poems
• Yeovil - Dorset Poems
• Buckland Newton - Dorset Poems
• Dorchester - Christian Marriage

1866

• Crewkerne - House and House Life
• Weymouth - Dorset Poems
• Southampton, Hartley Institute - Lecture
• Fisherton, Mr Handley's Schoolroom - Poems
• Dorchester, Corn Exchange - Dorset Poem To The Militia Men
• Dorchester - Dorset Poem To The Militia Men
• Marlborough - Dorset Poems
• Crewkerne - Pickings from my notebook
• Blandford - Pickings from my notebook
• Sturminster Newton - Random Notes
• Weymouth - Dorset Poems

1867

• Dorchester, Corn Exchange - Poetry Reading To The Militia Men
• Yeovil - Arts and Manners
• Weymouth - Dorset Poems
• Crewkerne - Notes on Arts, Manner and Welfare
• Ringwood - The Old Speech and People of the West of England
• Weymouth - Dorset Poems
• Dorchester - Poetry Reading at the opening of the new Corn Exchange, 19th December 

1868

• Somerton Town Hall - Dorset Poems Penny Readings
• Langport - Dorset Poems Penny Readings
• Wimborne St Giles - Dorset Poems
• Puddletown - Dorset Poems and Penny Readings
• Henstridge - Dorset Poems
• Dorchester - Chairman at George Grossmith "Humorous lecture on lecturing"
• Bridport - Literature
• Sherborne - Literature
• Mere - Literature
• Bournemouth - West of England Dialects
• Crewkerne - Literature
• Fisherton - Literature
• Downton - Literature
• Symondsbury - Literature
• Symondbury - Literature
• Bridport - The English Language

1869

• Stalbridge - Rise, Changes and Present State of the English Language
• Powerstock - Dorset Poems
• Bridport - Dorset Poems
• Weymouth - Dorset Poems
• Winterborne Monkton - Dorset Poems
• Beaminster - Dorset Poems
• Sherborne - The English Language
• Weymouth - The English Language
• Salisbury - Dorset Poems
• Wareham YMCA - The English Tongue
• Wareham YMCA - Dorset Poems
• Dorchester Corn Exchange - Poetry Readings to the Malitia
• Weston Super Mere - Dorset Poems
• Weymouth - Reading in the Vernacular
• Weymouth - Dorset Poems
• Poole Mechanical Institute
• Sherborne - Early England
• Bournemouth - Early England

1870

• Leigh - Dorset Poems
• Shaftesbury - The Language Manners and Customs and our Forefathers
• Gillingham - West English People and their Folk Speech
• Sherborne - Report on Education
• Tisbury - Dorset Poems
• Ansty, Hilton Reading Room - Dorset Poems
• Houghton - Dorset Poems
• Buckland Newton - Dorset Poems
• Crerwkerne
• Bridport - Dorset Poems
• Symonsbury
• Romsey
• Broadlands
• Chard
• Wokingham - Wellington College Dorset Poems

1871

• Chard - West Country People and their Folk Speech
• Chard - How Are Words Are Made
• Sherborne - Dorset Poems
• Piddletrenthide - Dorset Poems
• Longbridge Deveril - Dorset Poems
• Warminster - Dorset Poems
• Longleat
• Crewkerne - How Our Words Are Made
• Ansty - Labour and Gold
• Frome
• Langport
• Weymouth

1874

• Crewkerne
• Sturminster
• Broadwey - Dorset Poems

1875

• Childe Oakford - Dorset Poems
• Trowbridge - Dorset Poems
• Dorchester - Main Speaker at the pubic meeting on the Burial Bill, 15th November
• Osmington

1876

• Tisbury - Dorset Poems

1877

• Fordington School - Dorset Poems

1878

• Shaftesbury - The Dorset Dialect

1879

• Sherborne, MacCready Institute - Poems

1880

• Wimborne - Paper read to the Field Club on Eggardon