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‘Boy Pete’: Shipping Records and Norfolk’s Maritime Heritage
Registration of seamen and shipping has its roots in the medieval period, before the establishment of a standing navy. In the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, apart from a few crown-owned warships, any naval force would consist mainly of … Continue reading
The Norfolk Punt
This blog post shines a spotlight on the Norfolk Punt, as this weekend is the Norfolk Punt Championships. The Norfolk Punt was originally a flat-bottomed boat used on the Broads in the nineteenth century for fishing and shooting wild fowl. Hunters … Continue reading
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Tagged boats, broads, fishing, letters, OBE, Phil Morrison, punt, racing, sailing, Uffa Fox
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Tunics for Goalposts
East Anglia has played a pivotal role in the formation of modern football games, through the popular sport of Camping. In previous times, Camping, or Camp-Ball, was a popular, but violent, pastime. The sport appears to have died out in … Continue reading
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Tagged camp-ball, camping, football, rugby, sport
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Climate Change
One of the most useful functions of the Norfolk Record Office is to keep a minutely accurate record of our history, even in the perhaps unexpected field of climate change. A researcher from Bern in Switzerland spent many months looking … Continue reading
‘Take a field mouse, skin it, fry in butter and give to the child’: Folk Medicine in 1920s East Anglia
Dr Mark R Taylor was the first full-time regional medical officer for Norwich from the years 1920-1927. He was a doctor at the forefront of the increasing spread of professionalised medicine. However, he was also a doctor with a keen … Continue reading
The Searchroom Team’s Top Ten Tips for Researching Family History
Working in the Searchroom at the Norfolk Record Office we regularly give advice to people researching their family history. A lot of the difficulties people come across are very similar, so we’ve put together our top ten tips which we hope will … Continue reading
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Tagged family history, Meet the Team, research, Top Tips
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Norfolk’s Local Naturalist and Writer
The eccentric, lovable character Arthur H. Patterson, was otherwise known as ‘John Knowlittle’, a typically self-deprecating pen-name for a distinguished local naturalist and prolific writer of books, poems and a nature diary for the Eastern Daily Press. The Norfolk Record … Continue reading
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Tagged arthur patterson, Breydon, cartoon, EDP, general election, illustration, nature, walter rye, Yarmouth
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