Category Archives: Snapshots from the Archive

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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Poor Jack-  Food for the Poor or How to Make a Fortune

Posted on November 29, 2024 by victoriadraper24

My first independent foray into archival research at the Norfolk Record Office gave me a real headache in trying to understand the text but it was a fascinating and rewarding journey which lead to researching topics in many ways. Norfolk … Continue reading →

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Heckingham Workhouse: Filling in the Gaps

Posted on October 24, 2024 by cbolsterNRO

When a workhouse governor’s report book was received by the Norfolk Record Office from private hands in 2009, it helped shed light on day-to-day events at Heckingham Workhouse, between 1771-2 and filled a gap in our series of report books. … Continue reading →

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From workhouse, to prison, to asylum, what could the future hold for Harriet Kettle?

Posted on September 27, 2024 by victoriadraper24

After spending her formative years in and out of the workhouse, the asylum and five periods of imprisonment in what sounds like a plot of a Dickensian novel, what were the chances that Harriet Kettle, could not only survive to … Continue reading →

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“I never knew a better or more trustworthy man”: The Reminiscences of William Veasey.

Posted on September 2, 2024 by cbolsterNRO

One of the most fascinating forms of document held at the Norfolk Record Office is the reminiscence, where someone looks back on what has happened to them in their life. These reminiscences, which may be written or spoken, need to … Continue reading →

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