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Monthly Archives: June 2020
The Story of Sound part 2: “Canned music” and a war of formats
In the first part of the Story of Sound blog series, we travelled back in time to the late 1800s to discover who the first inventor was to create a machine which both recorded and played back sound, what the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, Unlocking Our Sound Heritage
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Britten Pears Archive
Way back in January, when we were wrapped up in our warm layers, and indoor hibernation was for no reason other than the cold weather, the Norfolk Record Office Unlocking Our Sound Heritage team hit the road. The destination? The … Continue reading
Norfolk: A County of Welcome
Who was Lewis Ecker? Why did he have to leave his homeland of Russia in the 19th century? And what happened to him and his family on arrival in Norfolk? In this blog post we use a number of documents … Continue reading
Posted in Snapshots from the Archive
Tagged family history, learning, local history, Refugee Week, school
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Distributing the wealth of the super rich in Elizabethan Norfolk
Introduction Oliver Haylotte [Haylett] left a very long and complex will and testament running into some eighteen pages dated 10 February 1580/81 and proved at Norwich on 4 March 1580/81 (The will is dated in the Old Style calendar where … Continue reading