Diary

  August 2008  
Sun 24 Open Day, RAF Bircham Newton Memorial Project
11am - 5pm
RAF Heritage Room, National Construction College, Bircham Newton (will be signposted)
BNMP
Wed 27 The Yarmouth Fishing Industry
Simon Partridge
HDHS
  September 2008  
Tue 2 Visit to Kirby Hall, Norwich
4pm - 8pm
NFHSY
Wed 3 Anne Boleyn - Her Family and Heraldry
Ron Fiske
NHS
Mon 8 For the Rest of your Natural Life
Pip Wright
NFHSD
Wed 10 Visit to Eltham Palace, South London DAS
Wed 10 Hatches, Matches & Dispatches
Brian Jones
NFHSK
Fri 12 Life in Medieval England
Mike Wabe
NFHSN
Wed 17 The Heritage of Pulham Pennoyers
Sheila King
PMS
Wed 17 Life in Medieval England
Mike Wabe
CHS
Tue 23 TBA RHS
Wed 24 Education in East Anglia 1550-1750
Nick Sign
HDHS
Thu 25 Seahenge - Ten Years On
Hannah Jackson
BLHG
Thu 25 Norwich City Library 1608-1737
7.30 pm, at Blackfriars Hall, Norwich. Launch of volume 72, Norwich City Library 1608-1737, edited by Clive Wilkins-Jones. The volume will be introduced in a public lecture by Professor Penelope Corfield (Royal Holloway College, University of London). Non-members please book with the Hon Sec.
NRS
Sun 28 Open Day, RAF Bircham Newton Memorial Project
11am - 5pm
RAF Heritage Room, National Construction College, Bircham Newton (will be signposted)
BNMP
Sun 28 Bygone Farming 2.30pm, Function Room, Kings Head, Belton
Philip West
BDHS
Tue 30 Illuminated Manuscripts: 700 years of Psalters
Margaret Forester
A short AGM will precede this meeting.
BAHS
  October 2008  
Wed 1 Mowbray and Howard ; Royal Armorial Inheritance
Peter Page
NHS
Wed 1 Colkirk Tales
Eric Absolon
WLHG
Thu 2 The Ghosts of Blickling & AGM
Sheila Merriman
ALHS
Sat 4 Myth-making and Low Politics: Disraeli Unmasked
Dr Geoff Hicks (Follows AGM at 2 pm)
HA
Tue 7 Great Yarmouth Sailors' Home
Fiona Ford
NFHSY
Wed 8 Annual Dinner at The King's Head North Elmham DAS
Thu 9 History of Fire Fighting
Geoffrey Lee
NFHSK
Thu 9 TBA FCM
Fri 10 Family History at your Fingertips
Meryl Catty
NFHSN
Sat 11 Standing in the Shadow of Boudica: Recent Research at Caistor Roman Town
Dr Will Bowden, University of Nottingham
NNAS
Wed 15 The Life of Sir Henry Rider Haggard
Jonathan Cheyne
CHS
Wed 15 Thatching for the Future
Steven Letch
PMS
Fri 17 Little Yarmouth and the Austin Friary
Margaret Gooch
GYDAS
Sat 18 The Historic Buildings of Binham
Dr Adam Longcroft
NAHRG
Tue 21 Drawings in stone! Grafitti in churches
John Peake (talk has special reference to N.Norfolk churches)
WNKLAS
Thu 23 Norfolk in World War I
Neil Storey
BLHG
Thu 23 The Real Edith Cavell
Barbara Miller
CAHS
Thu 23 Boudica and the Iceni
Natasha Hutchinson
ALHS
Sun 26 Photo and Mardle Day - Belton and District
From 1.30 pm, John Green Institute, Belton
BDHS
Tue 28 The history of King's Lynn part 3
David Grimes
RHS
Tue 28 Norfolk's Wealth: Wool and Weaving
Brian Morgan
BAHS
Wed 29 Witchcraft in East Anglia
Stuart Bowell
HDHS
  November 2008  
Sat 1 Medieval Painting in East Anglia and its European Context
Professor Paul Binski, University of Cambridge
NNAS
Tue 4 Would you Believe It? - My Family Story
Chris Basey
NFHSY
Wed 5 St Mary's Churches in North & South Creake
Peter Bradbury
NHS
Sat 8 The 'Swan King': Ludwig II, the Wittelsbach Legacy and Modern Bavaria
Ian Farr, University of East Anglia
HA
Tue 11 An Introduction to Identifying Military Items
Jim Lees
NFHSD
Wed 12 Bletchley Park and its Communications
Gwendoline Page (Ex-Communication Officer)
DAS
Wed 12 History of The Normans and its Residents
Mike Welland N.B.For this month the meeting is on the second Wednesday
WLHG
Wed 12 Norfolk Workhouses
Stephen Pope
NFHSK
Fri 14 Germany Calling (Lord Haw Haw)
Geoffrey Hodson
NFHSN
Sat 15 East Anglian Goldsmiths
Dr Mary Fewster
NAHRG
Tue 18 Essex Medieval Rural Landscapes and Settlements
Adrian Gascoyne
WNKLAS
Wed 19 The Norfolk Home Front in the Second World War
Neil Storey
CHS
Wed 19 CPRE Past, Present and Future
John Sansby
PMS
Thu 20 A Friendship Made in Oulton, George Borrow & Edward FitzGerald
Clive Wilkins Jones
ALHS
Thu 20 East Suffolk Railway 1940s - 1950s 2.30pm, Functio Room, Kings Head, Belton
John Bradridd
BDHS
Fri 21 The East Anglian School
Maurice Joel
GYDAS
Tue 25 TBA RHS
Tue 25 Reaching for Heaven
Dominic Summers (UEA)
BAHS
Wed 26 Working with the SOE in World War II
Monica Maxwell
HDHS
Thu 27 New Guinea to Darkest Norfolk
Peter Fox
BLHG
Thu 27 Norwich City Football Club
Jeremy Goss
CAHS
  December 2008  
Tue 2 Castle Rising – An Historical Perspective
Fred Cook, Kevin Elfleet et al
WNKLAS
Tue 2 Newtown and the Garden Suburb
Colin Tooke
NFHSY
Wed 3 Christmas Past
Katrina Siliprandi
WLHG
Sat 6 The Origins and Early Development of Norwich
Brian Ayers, Director of the Butrint Foundation and former Norfolk County Archaeologist (Joint meeting with Norfolk Archaeological & Historical Research Group)
NNAS
Sat 6 The Origins and Early Development of Norwich
Joint Lecture with NNAS at Norwich Castle, 2.30pm, by Brian Ayers
NAHRG
Wed 10 Antarctica
Gill Page
DAS
Fri 12 Members Christmas Evening HDHS
Fri 12 Christmas on the Home Front
Katrina Siliprandi
NFHSN
Sat 13 7th John Salmon Memorial Lecture - A Short Introduction to Domesday Book
Dr Ann Williams
HA
Mon 15 Photographs of Past Christmas in North Norfolk
Philip West
BLHG
Tue 16 Mardle Night: theme will be 'Reminiscences from WWII'
With exhibits and seasonal festivities
BAHS
Fri 19 Members' Social Evening, Christmas Buffet, Quiz and Raffle. GYDAS
  January 2009  
Tue 6 Tools of my Ancestors Trade
"Bring and Show" by members
NFHSY
Wed 7 Group Photograph of the First World War
Andrew Tatham
WLHG
Fri 9 Members Meeting at 2.30pm NFHSN
Sat 10 Understanding Change bewtween 6000-3500 BC on the Eastern Fen Edge
Dr Fraser Sturt, University of Southampton (Joint meeting with the Prehistoric Society)
NNAS
Sat 10 Salvation and Politics in Worcester Chapter House, c.1100
Sandy Heslop, University of East Anglia
HA
Tue 13 Memories and Family History
Ray Brown
NFHSD
Wed 14 The History of Aviation in Norfolk
Stephen Pope
DAS
Fri 16 TBA FCM
Sat 17 Churches Face East?
Ian Hinton
NAHRG
Tue 20 An Ancient Woodland in S.W. Suffolk
Dr Clive Sheppard (A.G.M. and Annual Dinner)
WNKLAS
Wed 21 Great Yarmouth - History, Herrings, Holidays
Peter Stibbons
CHS
Wed 21 Buffet supper and talk Wings over Norfolk
Derek Edwards
PMS
Thu 22 AGM & Members' Evening BLHG
Thu 22 Black Shuck
Peter Ransome
ALHS
Tue 27 Members' Night: details announced later BAHS
Wed 28 AGM and the David Neville Heritage Talk
David Rock
HDHS
  February 2009  
Wed 4 The Maritime History of the North Norfolk coast
Tom Sands
WLHG
Sat 7 Civic Ceremony and the Urban Year in Norwich c. 1450-1750
Dr Vic Morgan, University of East Anglia
NNAS
Tue 10 How to be a Good Ancestor
Teresa Hickley
NFHSD
Wed 11 AGM DAS
Thu 12 TBA FCM
Fri 13 TBA NFHSN
Sat 14 Aspect of the American Civil War
John Ashworth, University of Nottingham
HA
Tue 17 Recent work on Roman Norfolk
David Gurney
WNKLAS
Wed 18 Close Encounters with Costume
Vivienne Weeks
PMS
Thu 19 Norfolk Parks and Gardens
Tom Williamson
CHS
Sat 21 Studying Medieval Stained Glass in Norfolk: a Progress Report
Dr David King
NAHRG
Tue 24 Norfolk Archaeology from the Air: new perspectives
Derek Edwards
BAHS
Wed 25 The History of Jazz
Douglas Baker
HDHS
Thu 26 Servicemen in Wartime Photographs
Andrew Tatham
ALHS
  March 2009  
Wed 4 The History of the Wells' lifeboats
Coxswain Allen Frary
WLHG
Sat 7 Hoards and Swords: Some Recent Discoveries of the Vikings in Britain
The Sue Margeson Memorial Lecture given by Professor James Graham-Campbell, University College London
NNAS
Thu 12 TBA FCM
Fri 13 TBA NFHSN
Sat 14 TBA HA
Tue 17 Church, Estate and Village – Middle Saxon Sedgeford
Dr Neil Faulkner
WNKLAS
Wed 18 Local Heroes - Public Sculpture in Norfolk and Suffolk
Richard Cocke
CHS
Wed 18 Norwich Cathedral Library
Goodrun Warren
PMS
Sat 21 Recent Excavations in Norwich
Norfolk Archaeological Unit
NAHRG
Wed 25 Life in Medieval England
Mike Wabe
HDHS
Thu 26 Did the Renaissance Reach East Anglia?
Dr. Vic Morgan
ALHS
Tue 31 Portraits in Tudor Norfolk
David Yaxley
BAHS
  April 2009  
Fri 10 Some Norfolk Country Trades
Neil Storey
NFHSN
Sat 18 Coke of Holkham: Farmer and Patriot
AGM and Presidential Address by Dr Susanna Wade Martins
NAHRG
Tue 21 East Anglia and the Hanseatic League 1271-2009
Dr Paul Richards
WNKLAS
Fri 24 Social Evening ALHS
  May 2009  
Wed 6 AGM (7pm) and The Iceni Tribe 60AD (7.30pm)
Steve Parish
WLHG
Fri 8 Your Ancestors Population and Birth Control
Colin Chapman
NFHSN
   

Blakeney Area Historical Society

  August 2008  
Sat 23 Local History Day: an exhibition in St Nicholas church, Blakeney
10.00am - 4.00pm There will be exhibits on village, church and family history covering the villages of Cley, Wiveton and Blakeney; maps, photographs and results from the archaeological digs in Wiveton in 2006 and 2008. Tours in the church and churchyard plus if you are in need of sustance teas and light lunches.
  October 2008  
From Wed 1 The Story of Illuminated Manuscripts
Tutor: Margaret Forester
Weekly for six weeks
Enquiries to Frank Hawes: tel. 01263 740981

For further information: 01263 740388     www.history-blakeney-area.org.uk

Jane Bradstreet Antiques Talks Group

Jane Bradstreet Restoring the Past for the Future

For further information: 01953 453915     

  September 2008  
Tue 9 Visit Wells: Antiques, Lunch, Guided Walk

Aylsham Local History Society

  September 2008  
From Wed 17 Norwich, The Story of a Fine City
Charles Lewis A ten week course on Wednesdays at 2pm, at The Quaker Meeting House, Peggs Yard, Red Lion Street, Aylsham

For further information: 01263 734252 and 01263 732637     

Eastern Angles Theatre Company

  September 2008  
From Wed 17 Autumn Productions in or near Norfolk

Please note this production not suitable for children.

Wed 17 Sep I Caught Crabs in Walberswick - Sheringham
Sat 20 Sep I Caught Crabs in Walberswick - New Buckenham
Tue 30 Sep I Caught Crabs in Walberswick - Spalding
Wed 1 Oct I Caught Crabs in Walberswick - Bungay

Eastern Angles is the east of England's touring theatre company, with productions of regional interest and coming to a venue near you.......

For further information: 01473 218202     www.easternangles.co.uk

Norfolk & Norwich Heritage Trust

Prices shown are for NNHT non-members; prices generally lower for concessions and members

For further information: 01603 663 922     www.dragonhall.org

  September 2008  
Thu 18 Norwich and Norfolk’s Changing Coast
Jonathan Hooton Thursday 18 September £4.50
Sun 28 Study Day: Cloth Day
Details tbc 28 September 10am – 4pm
  October 2008  
Sun 12 Spinning
Jenny Rose 10am – 4.30pm

Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project

  July 2009  
From Tue 14 Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project
The 2008 season has finished. Find out what was found during this year's excavation at www.sharp.org.uk.

Dates for next year are 4th July – 14th August – a six week season again. If you would like to be notified when next year's prospectus is available you can email BrenStib@yahoo.co.uk or contact Brenda Stibbons 01263 510969

One of the largest archaeological research and training projects in Great Britain

For further information: 01485  532343     www.sharp.org.uk

Poppyland Publishing - Latest Titles

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Price & ISBN Title and Author
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Roads and Tracks
Bruce Robinson and Edwin J. Rose
£11.95
9780946148837
Grandad's War - The First World War Diary of Horace Reginald Stanley
Juliet and Heather Brodie
£12.95
East Anglia - The Wild Side: Field and Woodland (DVD)
Poppyland Productions with Hairy Frog Productions
£10.95
9780946148820
William Winstanley - The Man who saved Christmas
Alison Barnes
£12.95
East Anglia - The Wild Side: River and Broad (DVD)
Poppyland Productions with Hairy Frog Productions
£12.95
East Anglia - The Wild Side: Coast and Estuary (DVD)
Poppyland Productions with Hairy Frog Productions
£14.95
9780946148806
The Commercial Life of a Suffolk Town
John F. Bridges
£12.95
0946148783
I Read it in the Local Rag
Pip Wright
£12.95
Exploring the Norfolk Village (DVD)
Poppyland Productions
£12.95
Great Yarmouth - History, Herrings, Holidays (DVD)
Poppyland Productions
£10.95
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Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse
Stephen Pope