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 DecemberÂ
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
See also
Dorset Dialect
"God's stinking tree"
Plant: Elder, Sambucus nigra
Society events
From 01/08/2024 until 01/08/2025
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William Barnes Harvest Celebration
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William Barnes Harvest Celebration
On 10/12/2024
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Keepen Up O' Chris'mas
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Keepen Up O' Chris'mas
On 22/02/2025
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Barnes Night: A Celebration of the Life and Work of William Barnes
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Barnes Night: A Celebration of the Life and Work of William Barnes
On 20/03/2025
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A Dorset Spring through the Poetry of William Barnes
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A Dorset Spring through the Poetry of William Barnes
On 09/04/2025
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Friends Beyond - Barnes, Moule and Hardy
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Friends Beyond - Barnes, Moule and Hardy