Diary

New research has revealed information and changes in understanding about the Paston homes,
This is a hybrid event, with a small in-person audience at The Archive Centre and an online audience.
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In this 90 minute workshop Dr Karen Smyth, Senior Lecturer in Literature at UEA, will help you explore how to present data gleaned from archives that is engaging and has impact.
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Kate Barnes
Cley Village Hall & on Zoom

Karen explores the challenges in telling the Paston stories that deal with emotions, politics and morality from a bygone age.
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Jonathan Hooton
Free attendance, visitors welcome

Martin Flegg
Trinity Methodist Church Hall

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King Edmund, who died in 869, was one of the most venerated saints of medieval England. In this talk Frank Meeres attempts to sort out what we really know about his life and death, and how the legends about him developed over the centuries.
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Margaret Bird
Followed by short AGM
Cley Village Hall & on Zoom

Margaret Bird
Followed by short AGM
Cley Village Hall & on Zoom

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Exploring Christmas traditions using sound archives to uncover memories of Christmases at the turn of the 20th century.
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A Tudor Christmas
Trinity Methodist Church Hall

By the early 17th century the Howard family’s adherence to the proscribed Catholic faith had lost them the Dukedom and most of their money. Compensated by a beneficial marriage to a Sheffield heiress, their activities became focussed only on their Sussex, London and Yorkshire estates.
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From carols to Christmas stockings, decorations to dinners, what are your Christmas memories?
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Celebrate the New Year in style by joining us to hear about the balls and dinners of the past. Experience the joy of attending some of the prestigious events of the past through the eyes of those invited, including the Lord Mayor’s Feast of 1778 and Lady North’s Poudre Ball in 1905.
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Rod Chapman
Trinity Methodist Church Hall

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From the middle decades of the 9th century until the Norman Conquest, East Anglia was an integral part of the Viking world which spanned the North Sea basin. Drawing on historical sources, archaeological sites, artefacts and place-names, Richard Hoggett explores the evidence for the Viking presence in East Anglia.
Online talk
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The Great Yarmouth 1645 witch-hunt brought together three contested visions of astrology. Despite astrology being part of the fabric of the town’s life for the previous fifty years in court the MP Miles Corbet argued it was demonic con trick, while the defenders of the accused Mark Prynn declared it was a con.
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David Higgins
Free attendance, visitors welcome