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February 2025
Sat 22It's All Too Beautiful : Mod Youth Culture in Norwich and Norfolk
Time: 14:30

Philip Woods (UEA Modern History PhD Mature Student)

NAHRG
Tue 25Excavations of a new Anglo-Saxon site in Norfolk'
Time: 14:30

Lilly Hodges

BAHS
Wed 26History Talk - The Secret Lives of East Anglian Witches
Time: 13:00

by Marion Gibson
Marion will be talking about sixteenth and seventeenth-century witch trials across East Anglia. How can we find out more about the lives of suspects before they were labelled “witch” by their neighbours? Which types of historical document are useful and what are the surprising secrets they contain?

Free

Book In person https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1091040334009
Book online https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1091041567699

NRO
Thu 27From rats nests to witch bottles: the underfloor archaeology of Oxburgh
Time: 19:30

Matt Champion
Aylsham Town Hall

ALHS
Fri 28History in Focus - Maps
Time: 10:00

A 'pay what you can' event.

Book https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1040864161727

NRO
March 2025
Sat 1Norwich in the 1950s and 60s

Pete Goodrum

BRLHG
Sat 1AGM followed by 1930s Dereham on Film

Robena Brown

DHT
Wed 5“Still Life” (Sir Alfred Jodrell of Bayfield)
Time: 14:30

Andrew Tullet

WLHG
Tue 11Behind the Scenes Tour of the Norfolk Record Office
Time: 14:00

Visit the Conservation Studio to see where our documents are repaired, experience the atmospheric conditions of the Strongroom where we store our collections, and see a display of original documents.
Federation members can get £1 discount by using the code FEDBTS
Book here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1000582528277

NRO
Tue 11Talk - Great Women from Great Yarmouth
Time: 13:00

Town Hall. Great Yarmouth NR30 2QF

GYHG
Sat 15Breckland's Earth Heritage
Time: 14:30

Tim Holt Wilson (Freelance Geologist)

NAHRG
Wed 19The remarkable life of Thomas Fowell Buxton
Time: 19:30

Alison Dow

CHS
Wed 19Lucilla Reeve

Georgette Vale as Lucilla Reeve

LDLH
Fri 21The Historical Importance of HMS Gloucester, wrecked off the North Norfolk Coast
Time: 19:30

Professor Claire Jowitt

FCM
Fri 21The Norfolk Wool Trade 1200 -1600
Time: 19:30

Roger Auguile -Local Historian

GYLHAS
Tue 25Exploring Norfolk's Deep History Coast
Time: 14:30

John Davies

BAHS
Thu 27A History of Norfolk in 100 Places
Time: 19:30

David Robertson, one of the authors, and John Fielding, one of the aerial photographers, talk about this recently published guide -
Aylsham Town Hall

ALHS
April 2025
Wed 2Little Walsingham – Birth of a Village

Andrew Tullet

WLHG
Sat 5The A to Z of Curious Norfolk: Strange Stories of Mysteries, Crimes and Eccentrics

Sarah Doig

BRLHG
Wed 9The remarkable life of Thomas Fowell Buxton – the Liberator

Alison Dow

DHT
Fri 11Medieval Pilgrimage in North Norfolk
Time: 19:30

Dr John Beal

FCM
Fri 11Thomas Milnes, the nearly man of British sculpture'
Time: 11:00

Chris Belle
The Friends Meeting House, Pegg's Yard
Booking required.

ALHS
Fri 11The Broads Waterside Project
Time: 19:30

Alison Yardy, Senior Projects Officer (Heritage), Norfolk County Council

GYLHAS
Wed 16Newhaven Court: A story of love, tragedy, heroism and intrigue
Time: 19:30

Helen Murray

CHS
Wed 16Medieval Women as Healers: Nurses, Midwives and Wise Women

Joy Hawkins

LDLH
Sat 26Norfolk's Deep History Coast
Time: 14:30

John Davies (retired Chief Curator, Norwich Castle Museum)

NAHRG
Tue 29The Real Margery Kempe

Susan Maddock

BAHS
May 2025
Sat 3The Hotblack Family of Norwich

Caroline Holland

BRLHG
Sat 10Early Middle Ages in East Anglia: Illuminating the Dark Ages
Time: 10:00 - 16:00

Day Conference - Imperial Hotel
Professor Katy Cubitt - UEA: East Anglia's Contacts with the Continent before 700CE
Professor Lesley Abrams - Oxford: Scandinavian Settlement of Norfolk
Dr Keith Ruiter - University of Suffolk: Law and Scandinavian Society
Professor Rory Naismith - Cambridge University: The Late Anglo-Saxon Period

GYLHAS
Wed 14'Bob Halls' Sand – Are we any closer to discovering the origins of the name?

Short talk by Steve Adcock, followed by AGM

WLHG
Wed 14Jack Cates – the Last Norfolk Wherryman

Dale Wiseman

DHT
Fri 16Re-enactment of Life in the Middle Ages
Time: 19:30

Ashley Dyer & the Norwich and Norfolk Medieval Association

GYLHAS
Wed 21Castles in the Landscape

Rik Hoggett

LDLH
June 2025
Sat 7Red Cross Walk, Yarmouth Road

Dale Wiseman

BRLHG
Wed 11Treasures from DHT collections

Robena Brown and Katie Goodman

DHT
Fri 13Celebrating Margaret Rope - Stained Glass Artist
Time: 11:00

Arthur Rope
The Friends Meeting House, Pegg's Yard
Booking required.

ALHS
Wed 18History on a Stick - Norfolk Flora

Andrew Tullett

LDLH
July 2025
Wed 9Norfolk and the Mayflower

Rob Knee

DHT
Wed 16Langley Hall visit

Details from Society web link.

LDLH
Sat 26Norwich Castle: Royal Palace Reborn – A Story 900 Years in the Making

Hannah Jackson, preceded by AGM

BRLHG
Sat 26Norfolk Landscape History Conference

All-day event in honour of Tom Williamson

NAHRG
August 2025
Fri 8Chapelfield and beyond
Time: 11:00

Edward Baker
The Friends Meeting House, Pegg's Yard
Booking required.

ALHS
Wed 13The Mid Norfolk Railway

Station visit

DHT
Wed 20How nursing has changed since the 80'sLDLH
Fri 22The Black Death and its Aftermath
Time: 19:30

Imogen Corrigan, B.A. Hons Historian, Author

GYLHAS
September 2025
Wed 10Stones, bones and herbs – treating everyday ailments in medieval England

Dr Joy Hawkins

DHT
Wed 17The Cathedral, The Close and the Norwich Blitz
Time: 19:30

Anne Ma

CHS
Wed 17Why the Wreck of HMS Gloucester in 1682 Matters: The Secrets of a Restoration Warship

Claire Jowitt

LDLH
Fri 19Queen Elizabeth I's Progress to Norwich in 1578 (and refusal to go to Yarmouth)
Time: 19:30

Victor Morgan, BA, PhD, FRHistS

GYLHAS
October 2025
Wed 8Annual Members' DinnerDHT
Tue 14Talk - Pablo Fanque & the Victorian Circus
Time: 13:00

Town Hall. Great Yarmouth NR30 2QF

GYHG
Wed 15The Norwich Fire of 1508

Carole Rawcliffe

CHS
Fri 17Coastal Communities: The Archaeology of Sizewell C.
Time: 19:30

Claire Halley, Oxford Cotswold Archaeology, Cotswold Archaeology Work in a Joint Venture on the Project with Oxford Archaeology

GYLHAS
Fri 31Talk - Great Yarmouth Witch Trials
Time: 13:00

Town Hall. Great Yarmouth NR30 2QF

GYHG
November 2025
Tue 11Talk - Behind the Screens - Amphibious Tanks of Fritton Lake and District
Time: 13:00

Town Hall. Great Yarmouth NR30 2QF

GYHG
Wed 12Howard Carter - his Breckland roots, his work in Egypt and his Grand Discovery

Sue Gattuso

DHT
Wed 19Chanter's Jigge
Time: 19:30
CHS
Fri 21The Raising the Roof Project on Oxburgh Hall During the Covid Lockdown
Time: 19:30

Matthew Champion M.A. FRHist S.

GYLHAS
December 2025
Tue 9Talk - Ghost Stories of Great Yarmouth
Time: 13:00

Town Hall. Great Yarmouth NR30 2QF

GYHG
Wed 10Christmas Past

Dr Mary Fewster

DHT
Wed 17More Brewing

David Crease

LDLH
Fri 19Christmas Meeting
Time: 19:30

In-house Speaker.

GYLHAS
January 2026
Tue 13Talk - Growing up in Southtown
Time: 13:00

Town Hall. Great Yarmouth NR30 2QF

GYHG
February 2026
Tue 10Talk - Arthur Nelson: The Clown King
Time: 13:00

Town Hall. Great Yarmouth NR30 2QF

GYHG
March 2026
Tue 10Talk - Hopping Around Hopton
Time: 13:00

Town Hall. Great Yarmouth NR30 2QF

GYHG
   

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Price & ISBNTitle and Author
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£29.95 (hbk)
978-1-909796-45-4
Taverham: The Story of a Cathedral Priory Manor
Judy Sims
£19.95
978-1-909796-95-9
An Angel Amongst Strange Bears: John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, Blickling Hall, Norfolk
Joy Beresford Frye
£20.95
978-1-909796-99-7
Sir James Neville: War and Peace, A Norfolk Soldier at Home and Abroad
Sara Barton-Wood
£10.95
978-1-869831-10-3
Ketteringham: A Norfolk Country Estate
Robert Sharpe
£10.95
978-1-869831-11-0
Doodlebugs and Rockets, Norfolk and Suffolk 1944-1945
John Bridges