The Monty Python sketch of Thomas Hardy writing “The Return of the Native” takes place inside a packed soccer stadium with an announcer providing play-by-play analysis of the author’s ...

The largest collection of objects ever displayed belonging to the novelist Thomas Hardy have gone on show. Dorset Museum, Poole Museum, the Salisbury Museum, and Wiltshire Museum are each ...

Thomas Hardy, the novelist, writes to The Dorset (England) County Chronicle in remembrance of Mrs. Baxter, known as "Leader Scott," who died Nov. 10 in Florence: View Full Article in Timesmachine ...

A town's mayor has urged those involved with safety checks and a clear-up operation after a cafe fire to "act as quickly as ...

A building where the author Thomas Hardy trained as an architect has been left a charred wreck after a fire. The blaze on Dorchester's South Street swept through The Gorge Cafe and spread to the ...

An investigation into the cause of a fire at a cafe left a charred wreck is yet to start as the building and those ...

Firefighters tackling a fire in Dorchester at the site of the historic building where the Victorian novelist and poet Thomas Hardy worked (Dorset and Wiltshire Fire Service/PA) The plaque that ...

The building where the Victorian novelist and poet Thomas Hardy worked as an apprentice architect has been gutted by fire. About 50 firefighters tackled the blaze as it tore through the historic ...