Tag Archives: Yarmouth
Great Yarmouth court rolls
The Norfolk Record Office holds the Great Yarmouth Borough court rolls (NRO, Y/C 4), which, between the 1260s and the 1670s, are the main, and, during the medieval period, the only surviving administrative records of the borough. They record the … Continue reading
Fighting the Plague in Tudor Norwich
People are supposed to learn from history, so it is interesting to compare the present situation with a similar, or even more calamitous, happening in Norwich’s past. This is the plague, which first came to Norwich in 1349 (that first … Continue reading
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Tagged black death, coronavirus, covid19, lockdown, norwich, plague, selfisolation, Wymondham, Yarmouth
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Norfolk’s Local Naturalist and Writer
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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Tagged arthur patterson, Breydon, cartoon, EDP, general election, illustration, nature, walter rye, Yarmouth
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Norfolk Record Office 