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The Masque of Anne Boleyn

Posted on April 30, 2025 by victoriadraper24

We’ve all heard the stories, the myths, the rhymes of King Henry VIII’s infamous second wife Anne Boleyn (Bullen), the beheading of a Queen that shocked the Tudor court in 1536. However, this blog is not a mere biography of … Continue reading →

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The Norwich Lad’s Club and its history, 1918-1988

Posted on April 10, 2025 by victoriadraper24

In this post we look at the history of the Norwich Lad’s Club, which was formed for the purposeof giving many youngsters in Norwich a place to channel their natural mischievous andenergetic qualities into sport and recreations, rather than into … Continue reading →

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‘Love has no borders’; High-flying romance

Posted on March 28, 2025 by victoriadraper24

Not all stories you find in the archives are hundreds of years old. This story is from only 30 years ago so we have changed the names in order to keep those involved anonymous. In an article for a local … Continue reading →

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An Opening Performance

Posted on March 11, 2025 by victoriadraper24

26th September, 1921. How much can we imagine what the opening performance of As You Like It might have looked like, at the brand new Maddermarket Theatre in Norwich? Could it be possible for a theatre built centuries after Shakespeare’s … Continue reading →

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‘Little more than a mass of fungus’: conserving the Salthouse Parish Register- Part 2: what’s inside

Posted on February 23, 2025 by victoriadraper24

We have already looked into the burial of the Salthouse Parish Register and the work to conserve it. Now it is time to focus on some of the people included in it. Some of the entries give far more detail … Continue reading →

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‘Little more than a mass of fungus’: conserving the Salthouse Parish Register. Part 1- the burial and conservation work

Posted on February 5, 2025 by victoriadraper24

In 2005, Record Office staff began the task of conserving the first parish register for Salthouse, allowing people to see inside the register for the first time in over sixty years. The register contains a unique record of the baptisms, … Continue reading →

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The Botanical Diaries: A Victorian Teen’s Summer Adventures

Posted on January 16, 2025 by victoriadraper24

The needles of a 500-year-old yew tree, a sprig of oak from Sherwood Forest, a piece of seaweed from the seaside resort of St Leonards. These are not typical artefacts you might expect to find in Norfolk Record Office. Yet, … Continue reading →

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Christmas in a foreign country

Posted on December 20, 2024 by victoriadraper24

We tend to think of Christmases as a time for having fun with friends and family. Often we forget about those who are unable to do so, particularly those who are working or stationed abroad. This was the case for … Continue reading →

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