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
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
A message from BAHS member Margaret Bird, including three portraits of the Hardy family. Further Mary Hardy books I have finished the text of the four companion volumes Mary Hardy and her World 1773-1809 – all 3030 pages. It will take a long time to index the work, but I have made a start. Two
The three images, all of Letheringsett Church in the 19th century, may be clicked on to see at a larger size. BAHS members may be cheered to hear that work is going well on the four companion volumes Mary Hardy and her World 1773-1809. The complete text of the diary of the brewer’s wife came