Exhibitions

This section allows you to view online exhibitions.

Around the World in 80 Documents- Your Choice

This exhibition was created by members of the public attending the 80 Documents Around the World sessions. Each of the 5 sessions focused on a different area of the world and allowed people to join in with a discussion of the document before voting on which ones should go in the exhibition.

Animals in the Archive

The images of animals in this exhibition range in date from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries. Some, like the fifteenth century dragon encircled with a banner bearing the words in dei nomine amen (‘in the name of God, amen’), and the cows depicted on an eighteenth-century map of fields at Guestwick, are incidental decorations. Others, like the swans’ heads from the register of swan marks, and the heraldic beasts in the ’Book of Chevrons’, are an integral part of the archival record or the main subject of a drawing or painting. All are taken from manuscripts in the Norfolk Record Office’s
vast Designated collection of over 12.5 million items, which date from the eleventh century to the present day.

Building an Education: Norfolk Rural Schools, 1800-1950

The exhibition was on display at the Norfolk Record Office from September – December 2011. This online version is taken from the exhibition guide.

This exhibition springs from a project to survey every surviving rural school in Norfolk built before 1950. It was initiated by the Norfolk Historic Buildings Group and the majority of work has been carried out by a team of enthusiastic volunteers. They have visited, photographed and recorded information about individual schools.