Category Archives: Snapshots from the Archive

Royal Greenwich Observatory

Posted on 12 March 2020 by nhudsonnro

The ‘Unlocking Our Sound Heritage’ Project has received many collections for digitisation since it began. One such collection is the sound archives of the Royal Greenwich Observatory (RGO), currently housed within the Cambridge University Archives. This collection has a vast … Continue reading →

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Much Ado About Nothing?

Posted on 7 March 2020 by elizabethjayne2015

A Letter from Edward Harbord 3rd Baron Suffield, to his sixteen-year-old son starts ‘With an aching heart and a trembling hand, I take up my pen to reply to your note…’ The eleven-page letter written in 1829 and held at … Continue reading →

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William Curtis: an 18th century farmer, debtor and habitual complainer

Posted on 26 February 2020 by elizabethjayne2015

Corruption always tends to capture our interest- reading the tabloids indicates that- and it is very easy to identify what looks like corruption when we research documents from the past. We tend to forget that in previous centuries different rules … Continue reading →

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The Angel Inn of King’s Lynn

Posted on 19 February 2020 by elizabethjayne2015

It sometimes seems strange- though on second thoughts it’s only to be expected- how researching one topic recalls previous ones, with one thread leading to another, then another, until they are all intertwined. While browsing the records at King’s Lynn … Continue reading →

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National Story Telling Week

Posted on 7 February 2020 by nhudsonnro

Did you hear about the time that cows ran loose up Norwich’s King Street, and ate the vegetable displays in a shop? How about the time a boy threw a snow ball at a post man by accident, and was … Continue reading →

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The Norwich Bread Riot of 1766

Posted on 1 February 2020 by elizabethjayne2015

If you heard about bread riots in the 18th century your mind might go to France, where the peasants waged war against the upper classes in order to simply be able to afford food. However, these images may be closer … Continue reading →

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‘The beginning of the end’, Norfolk’s textile industry in decline

Posted on 24 January 2020 by elizabethjayne2015

In 1769, one of Norwich’s largest textile firms went bankrupt. Although abrupt, the downfall of Stannard & Taylor was, as their successors’ financial records indicate, symptomatic of wider changes that marked the beginning of Norfolk’s slow, drawn-out commercial and industrial … Continue reading →

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A brief insight into the history of Team Lotus

Posted on 16 January 2020 by elizabethjayne2015

Formula One has always been, in my opinion, an incredibly exciting sport and delving into archives relating to the Norfolk born Team Lotus, the sister company of Lotus Cars, was equally as interesting. Setting out on what may be an impossible … Continue reading →

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