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.
Category Archives: General History
Volunteers for National Trust Archaeological Surveying
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
New local book Georgian Holt at Work and Play
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
174 years of Norfolk Archaeology goes online!
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
Mary Hardy and her World 1773-1809: four-volume study lodged in the History Centre at Blakeney
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
Book: A History of Norfolk by Chris Barringer
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
The diarist Mary Hardy has a new website
A message from BAHS member Margaret Bird, including three portraits of the Hardy family. New website In November 2018 I said in these pages that I would be reshaping the website for the Letheringsett diarist Mary Hardy (1733-1809). I have amalgamated three existing websites into one, to make them smartphone friendly: www.burnham-press.co.uk The old Mary Hardy
Brancaster Beach: Pages of the sea
On Remembrance Day there was an event, Pages of the sea, held around the UK at various beaches. Faces of some of those lost were etched in the sand to be washed away as the tide came in. Members of the public were able to create silhouettes of others from WW1 and other conflicts. Click
Heaving Posts
A year or so ago, Neil Thompson pulled the remnants of a heaving post out from the side of the new cut in Blakeney as it was becoming a risk to boats using the cut. What was left of the heaving post was what had been sunk into the ground as the rest had rotted