Follow us on Twitter
My Tweets-
Recent Posts
- How a Second World War air raid caused the closure of a Norfolk School: The accounts of Amy Buckley, Head Teacher February 24, 2021
- Helping community archives during the pandemic: The Norfolk Record Office’s ‘Community Archives’ project February 15, 2021
- She was ‘a natural, a poor fool and ideot …void of reason or sense’: A harsh judgement on Margaret Cooper of Snetterton February 6, 2021
- Holocaust Memorial Day January 27, 2021
- Depositions: Uncovering the lives of ordinary Norfolk people through church court records January 20, 2021
Categories
Tags
- Boer War
- bombing raids
- Caley's
- census
- charters
- children's activities
- christmas
- conservation
- Cromer
- depositions
- diaries
- diary
- digital preservation
- digitisation
- Eccles
- Eccles church
- education and outreach
- exhibition
- family history
- First World War
- great yarmouth
- Great Yarmouth Martime Festival
- hall books
- Heritage Lottery Fund
- hilda zigomala
- illustration
- India
- internship
- isinglass
- journal
- king's lynn borough archives
- Kings Lynn
- learning
- letters
- local history
- Lowestoft
- maps
- marriage
- marriage licence bonds
- Meet the Team
- memoirs
- newspapers
- norfolk
- Norfolk Heritage Centre
- norwich
- Norwich landmarks
- oral history
- parchment
- parish
- photography
- probate
- pubs
- refugees
- research
- school
- school workshops
- Second World War
- Sound Archive
- St Andrew's Hospital
- Strangers
- The National Archives
- tours
- traineeship
- Transforming Archives
- travel
- UEA
- UnlockingOurSoundHeritage
- UOSH
- Victorians
- volunteering
- volunteers
- witchcraft
- women
- WW2
- Wymondham
Archives
- February 2021
- January 2021
- December 2020
- November 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- August 2020
- July 2020
- June 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- July 2014
Tag Archives: tours
Researching Norwich Road Workhouse: Norwich Primary Academy History Club
In early July we were joined by the members of Norwich Primary Academy History club as part of their special project looking at the history of Norwich Road Workhouse. The pupils had been researching the Haze family who were in … Continue reading
Posted in Behind the Scenes, Schools, Snapshots from the Archive, Young People
Tagged family history, microfilm, norwich, tours, workhouse
Leave a comment
Creative Writing Winners Announced
We were so impressed by the standard of entries to our WW1 themed creative writing competition that we chose a winner from two age categories. ‘Love at First Shell’, written by Hope Owen Mcnair, in Year 6 at Fairhaven Primary School, wrote … Continue reading
Posted in Behind the Scenes, Schools
Tagged children's activities, competition, conservation, diary, First World War, tours
2 Comments
Behind the Scenes and Christmas Gifts
Have you ever wondered where all our millions of documents are stored, and in what conditions? Do you want to see first hand the innovative work and research our conservators are doing? We are once more offering
Posted in Behind the Scenes, Events
Tagged christmas, conservation, strongrooms, tours
Leave a comment
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
Posted in Events, Snapshots from the Archive
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
Leave a comment
Heritage Open Days events coming up!
Another busy week coming up, this time for the Heritage Open Days. On Thursday, 11 September Kären Gaffney, our Education and Outreach Assistant, will be running an archival ambulation. The walk will go past some of the city’s landmarks, before … Continue reading
Posted in Events
Tagged Heritage Open Days, Maddermarket Theatre, Norwich landmarks, Shakespeare, tours
Leave a comment
