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King’s Lynn’s trading links with Europe: King’s Lynn and the Hansa

Posted on 15 July 2020 by elizabethjayne2015

(Or, in a travesty of the old saying, Hansa is as Hansa does) Over time, King’s Lynn’s trading links with Europe have developed and evolved and continue to do so today. Records held in the King’s Lynn Borough Archives can … Continue reading →

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Sounds in Silence: Journeys by train in Lock down

Posted on 11 July 2020 by nhudsonnro

Jackie Mitchell, a volunteer for the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage East of England hub at Norfolk Record Office, records her experiences of transcribing a collection of annotated notebooks that document the UK’s railways, and reflects upon the joy of train … Continue reading →

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Remote Learning with the Coven of Atho

Posted on 4 July 2020 by cbolsterNRO

There are numerous references to witchcraft in the archives at the Norfolk Record Office. These references typically relate to cases of people being tried as witches. Of course, the defendants in these cases were victims of persecution but what about … Continue reading →

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The Story of Sound part 2: “Canned music” and a war of formats

Posted on 26 June 2020 by nhudsonnro

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 →

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Britten Pears Archive

Posted on 20 June 2020 by nhudsonnro

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 →

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Norfolk: A County of Welcome

Posted on 16 June 2020 by nroeando2017

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 →

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Distributing the wealth of the super rich in Elizabethan Norfolk

Posted on 9 June 2020 by victoriadraper24

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 →

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The Story of Sound: The Talking Machine

Posted on 26 May 2020 by nhudsonnro

Whether it was rushing to Woolworth’s to bag the latest CD, patiently recording songs off the radio onto compact cassette tape, or seeking through the slick sleeves of vinyl at a local record store, the analogue formats of recorded sound … Continue reading →

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