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Black Beauty’s Norfolk Heritage
Black Beauty, the classic novel by Norfolk author Anna Sewell, was written at the very end of Sewell’s life and published on this day in 1877. The Norfolk Record Office (NRO) has many letters from her to her brother and … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrienne E. Gavin, Anna Sewell, black beauty, great yarmouth, horses, Jarrold's, letters, Old Catton, Quaker
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Archival Ambulations
As part of the The National Archives -Explore your Archives initiative, the Education and Outreach Team conducted two Archival Ambulations on Monday and Tuesday this week. Our intrepid walkers met at the Nelson statue in the Upper Close of Norwich … Continue reading
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Tagged ambulation, Black Tower, bombing raids, breweries, coroner's inquests, Dragon Hall, Explore your Archive, Flour Mill, graveyard, Howard House, King Street, letters, local history, maps, Moutergate, Nelson, norwich Cathedral, norwich city walls, norwich walks, Richard Wright, The National Archives, tombland, tours, walking
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First World War Medals
Armistice Day is always an emotive time and it often prompts people to look back to family members who served or were killed in the First World War. If we are lucky, we have mementos of these men and women, … Continue reading
Beer, Breweries, and Drunkenness in the NRO archives.
Last week, St Andrew’s Hall & Blackfriars Hall in Norwich were host to the 37th Norwich Beer Festival, organised by CAMRA’s Norwich and Norfolk branch. This was the perfect excuse for us to tweet about the wide range of beer-related … Continue reading
Norfolk Witchcraft Trials
Trials for witchcraft were fairly common in Tudor and Stuart times: several can be found in the Yarmouth quarter sessions records, for example (Y/S 1/2). By far the biggest trial was that of 1645. Yarmouth Assembly actually invited Matthew Hopkins … Continue reading
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Tagged great yarmouth, hangings, sessions records, witchcraft
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A Norfolk Man’s War: The Hewetson Letters
I have been busy preparing for my forthcoming talk which will take place this Friday (10 October) at 1pm in The Green Room at The Archive Centre. The talk, ‘A Norfolk Man’s War: The Hewetson Letters’ is free of charge. … Continue reading
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Tagged First World War, letters, Salhouse
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Battle of Britain Day
15 September is Battle of Britain Day and it is commemorated every year on this date. The Battle of Britain was the aerial conflict between the British and German air forces in the skies over the United Kingdom in 1940. … Continue reading
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Tagged Battle of Britain, commemoration, RAF, Second World War
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