The Sinking of HMS Princess Victoria Talk 18 November 2023 at 3pm
The Cley Connection – A Story of Tragedy, and DiscoveryBy Richard JeffersonCley Village Hall NR25 7RJ Click on image below for printable copy.
The Cley Connection – A Story of Tragedy, and DiscoveryBy Richard JeffersonCley Village Hall NR25 7RJ Click on image below for printable copy.
The National Trust are looking for volunteers to help the Heritage Archaeology Ranger Team (HART). The core function of HART is to locate and assess the condition of archaeological features. The NT has 29 sites and these are split into clusters including Stiffkey, Morston, Blakeney and Salthouse. Some examples of the sites that need recording
From BAHS member Margaret Bird, 20 March 2023:A 32-page booklet, Georgian Holt at Work and Play, will be published by the Holt Society on 3 April 2023. Written by Margaret Bird, it features social and commercial life in Holt and the surrounding area in the period 1780-1810 when Mary Hardy was writing her daily diary
From BAHS member Margaret Bird, 19 March 2023: In October 2022 a highly significant body of manuscripts, photographs and maps from the Cozens-Hardy Collection was lodged in the Norfolk Record Office (NRO) by Caroline Holland, née Cozens-Hardy. Caroline is a BAHS member and is descended from the Letheringsett diarist Mary Hardy. This news item is
After 174 years, the complete journals of one of the oldest archaeological Societies in the UK the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society (NNAS) are going on line, for anyone to access free of charge. Click here for access
The four-volume study Mary Hardy and her World 1773-1809 will be published in April 2020. Two of the covers are pictured here; also the set of four spines. Drawing on the testimony of the local diarist Mary Hardy (1733-1809), these volumes of commentary and analysis provide a detailed panorama of work and social life in
Endurance 1914 to 1916 “in my grandfather’s footsteps” a talk by Alan Wordie Wiveton Church Fundraiser on Thursday 28th November 2019 Held at 7pm in Cley Village Hall Read more…
Kurds, Kazakhs and other kind people, a talk by Charlie Blount Wiveton Church Fundraiser on Thursday 7th November 2019 Held at 7pm in Cley Village Hall Read more…
This is Historian Chris Barringer’s (1931-2013) story of Norfolk history published posthumously in 2019. Chris Barringer played a fundamental part in the formation of this Society. In 1990 he was invited to give a series of lectures in Blakeney and two more series followed in 1991 and 1992. Chris was a leading member of historical