This series is now up to eight titles, with more in preparation. The series outlines the history of the county through archaeology and historical research.

Written with the help of the top county authorities on the subject, this series combines straightforward reading with authoratative information.

Norfolk Origins 1: Hunters to First Farmers
Bruce Robinson
ISBN 0 906554 05 5 X
£3.50

The new edition of Celtic Fire and Roman Rule is now available. Brought up to date by Chief Curator of the Norfolk Museums and Archaeological Service John Davies, it carries the story of Norfolk forward from about 500BC to the breakdown of Roman Rule circa 410AD. And what years those 1000 years were! There was great technical advancement and some of the most complex and eventful moments in Norfolk's long history. This is regarded as the standard introduction to Celtic and Roman times in Norfolk.

Norfolk Origins 3: Celtic Fire and Roman Rule
Bruce Robinson and Tony Gregory
ISBN 0 946148 62 7
£8.95

The North Folk: Angles, Saxons and Danes moves the story of the county on from the departure of the Romans to the coming of the Normans. The mysteries of the 'Dark Ages' in Norfolk are gradually unfolding with the developing techniques of landscape archaeology and the growing opportunities to investigate sites that are being redeveloped. This book takes us through the period of the coming of the Angles, Saxons and Vikings.

Norfolk Origins 4: The North Folk: Angles, Saxons and Danes
Richard Bond, Kenneth Penn and Andrew Rogerson ISBN 0 946148 43 0
£6.95

Deserted Villages in Norfolk returns to a thematic rather than a chronological approach. As the boundaries of England have changed, Norfolk has remained a county of towns and many, many villages. This book records those which have disappeared from the modern map, and explains why this has happened.

Norfolk Origins 5: Deserted Villages in Norfolk
Alan Davison ISBN 0 946148 51 1
£8.95

Changing Agriculture in Georgian and Victorian Norfolk takes the period from the begining of the 18th century up to the beginning of the First World War and looks at how Norfolk developed as an agricultural county. What made Norfolk such a centre of development? Was it the availability of labour, with little option but to work the land? Was it innovative landowners? How significant was the development of machinery made possible by the Industrial Revolution?

Susanna Wade Martins draws on traditional sources and new evidence to examine this great period of change in Norfolk’s story.

Norfolk Origins 6: Changing Agriculture in Georgian and Victorian Norfolk
Susanna Wade Martins ISBN 0 946148 58 9
£8.95

The Norfolk Dialect looks first at the linguistic history of the county, and at the many different languages which have been spoken there, to see what influences may have contributed to the distinctive nature of the dialect.

It then examines the dialect of Norfolk in the context of the English dialects of Great Britain, illustrates the links with Suffolk and demonstrates the division at the Fens. One of author Peter Trudgill's key points is to show that the Norfolk dialect is a form of the English language with a fascinating history and a unique structure that is worthy of respect and maintenance, not of ridicule and discrimination. Peter Trudgill is Professor of English Linguistics at Fribourg University, and is President of FOND (Friends of the Norfolk Dialect).

Norfolk Origins 7: The Norfolk Dialect
Peter Trudgill ISBN 0 946148 63 5
£8.95

Exploring the Norfolk Village takes a detailed look at 14 villages across the county, choosing one from each of the different types of area in Norfolk. Christopher Barringer uses examples he has worked on with many local history groups to show the variety of sources available to the local historian and the landscape archaeologist.

Whether it is the coming of a modern road system or the development of the medieval wool trade, you'll find advice on sources and how to make the best use of those sources in this book. With over twenty specially drawn maps and a wide range of colour photographs, it is the ideal starting place for the reader who wants to start to explore their own locality.

The DVD Exploring the Norfolk Village will be availabe in the spring of 2006.

Norfolk Origins 8: Exploring the Norfolk Village
Christopher Barringer ISBN 0 946148 71 6
£12.95