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Explore Your Archive December 2nd 2023

02/12/23

Theme: Challenges – for the shepherd and the housewife. Two of the many, many challenges that would have face the...

01/12/23

Did the occupants of Hoar Oak Cottage have hobbies? It’s very hard to imagine them having any time for hobbies....

27/11/23

In the Friends of Hoar Oak Cottage’s social media sites – Facebook, Instagram and Twitter – we have on occasion...

27/11/23

One of the smallest items in the Hoar Oak Cottage archive is a clay pipe discovered by one of the...

24/11/23

The idea of big families – called ‘long families’ in old dialect – is often considered a characteristic of rural...

24/11/23

In Britain, the expectation of a daily postal delivery might be considered a long-standing tradition – at least since 1635...

24/11/23

When John Knight purchased the Royal Forest of Exmoor in 1818 he was keen on the idea of importing Scottish...

19/03/23

Elsewhere on the website can be found information about what life was like for children growing up at Hoar Oak...

08/12/22

Stories and memories come in many shapes and this one is from a letter sent to the Voices Project by...

04/10/20

Its intriguing to read the parchment roll of documents and map in the National Archives which formally identifies who owns...

13/09/20

The diaries of Robert Tait Little – Head Shepherd on Exmoor (1870 to 1907) – and a native of Dumfries...

11/09/19

The wild red deer that roam freely across Exmoor can frequently be found browsing around Hoar Oak Cottage although with...