Category Archives: Snapshots from the Archive

Prisons in Norfolk

Posted on 7 September 2015 by emilysarah2012

This week’s blog post is from Orla Kennelly, who works as an Archive Specialist for the Norfolk Record Office, and is based at the Norfolk Heritage Centre.  Norwich Castle, and The Guildhall just off the market place, are two of … Continue reading →

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‘Boy Pete’: Shipping Records and Norfolk’s Maritime Heritage

Posted on 27 August 2015 by emilysarah2012

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 →

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The Norfolk Punt

Posted on 19 August 2015 by emilysarah2012

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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Tunics for Goalposts

Posted on 13 August 2015 by emilysarah2012

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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‘Take a field mouse, skin it, fry in butter and give to the child’: Folk Medicine in 1920s East Anglia

Posted on 27 July 2015 by emilysarah2012

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 →

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Norfolk’s Local Naturalist and Writer

Posted on 14 July 2015 by emilysarah2012

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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A Victorian Clergyman’s Diary: Capturing Norwich and Beyond

Posted on 7 July 2015 by emilysarah2012

The diaries  of a Victorian clergyman might not sound like a great read, but those of Revd William Pelham Burn have unusual appeal. Burn was born in London in 1859, the third son of Major-General Henry Pelham Burn. He studied at … Continue reading →

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