Author Archives: emilysarah2012

Remembrance Sunday

Posted on November 7, 2014 by emilysarah2012

As Remembrance Sunday occurs this weekend, it’s a good time to reflect on the wartime records held at the Norfolk Record Office.  New donations are coming in all the time and adding to Norfolk’s heritage for later generations to learn … Continue reading →

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Here’s what we got up to last week…

Posted on November 5, 2014 by emilysarah2012

Last week was a busy one for the Norfolk Record Office! For our first half term activity on Tuesday the children learnt about World War One propaganda and posters. They then chose to either paint a template of a real … Continue reading →

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Beer, Breweries, and Drunkenness in the NRO archives.

Posted on November 3, 2014 by emilysarah2012

Last week, St Andrew’s Hall & Blackfriars Hall in Norwich were host to the 37th Norwich Beer Festival, organised by CAMRA’s Norwich and Norfolk branch. This was the perfect excuse for us to tweet about the wide range of beer-related … Continue reading →

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Meet the Team! Edward moves from lab to studio…

Posted on October 29, 2014 by emilysarah2012

Around Christmas last year businesses and organisations from Norfolk and Suffolk visited the John Innes Centre to offer 12 week internships for PhD students.  The idea of the Professional Internships for PhD students (PIPs) is to offer experience of work … Continue reading →

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Norfolk Witchcraft Trials

Posted on October 20, 2014 by emilysarah2012

Trials for witchcraft were fairly common in Tudor and Stuart times: several can be found in the Yarmouth quarter sessions records, for example (Y/S 1/2).  By far the biggest trial was that of 1645.  Yarmouth Assembly actually invited Matthew Hopkins … Continue reading →

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Dragons’ Den at Hellesdon High School

Posted on October 16, 2014 by emilysarah2012

Last month the Education and Outreach team went to Hellesdon High School to spend two days giving Industry Workshops to the Year 8 students (age 12-13 years), alongside our colleagues from Norfolk Museum Service.

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Meet the Team! Emily and Caroline: Transforming Archives Trainees

Posted on October 14, 2014 by emilysarah2012

Hi everyone! This is Emily and Caroline, and we joined the Norfolk Record Office at the beginning of October. We’re working here for a year as part of The National Archives Transforming Archives Traineeship, which is funded by the Heritage … Continue reading →

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