May-June Update – Medieval Graffiti and More
The last couple of months have been a bit topsy-turvy but we hope everything will settle down now. Here’s the latest news on meetings and events for May and June.... Read More
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No experience necessary, just curiosity. Come and join us!
NEWS
April meeting – Cancellation
Unfortunately Marcus is unable to make it next Saturday, so we have taken the decision to cancel the meeting. We are currently trying to re-arrange a date and also looking... Read More
St Edmund and St Fremund, a follow up to Rebecca Pinner’s February talk
Following Rebecca’s fascinating talk in February, she has let us have links to some of the sources she referenced. The copy of the Lives of Sts Edmund and Fremund made... Read More
STOP PRESS
May-June Update – Medieval Graffiti and More
The last couple of months have been a bit topsy-turvy but we hope everything will settle down now. Here’s the latest news on meetings and events for May and June. On May 12th our own Pat May will present Voices from the Past, an updated talk on her search for... Read More
April meeting – Photogrammetry with Marcus Abbott – CANCELLED
Our April meeting is going to be a combined theory and practical session on photogrammetry with Marcus Abbott. Marcus last came to see us back in November 2014 for our first photogrammetry session, and we thought it was time to have him back for a refresher and an introduction to... Read More
2018 Programme
January 5th Walberswick War Walk with Prof Rob Liddiard and we hope Lara Band of CITiZAN. January 20th Dr Dominic Summers on the Seven Sacrament Fonts of East Anglia, 2.00pm Needham Village Hall February 17th Dr Rebecca Pinner, Poetry, Politics & Propaganda in Medieval East Anglia. 2.00pm Waveney Room, Wortwell Community Centre March... Read More
November meeting – The Paston Women
This month we welcome back Elizabeth McDonald with the third of her series of talks on one of Norfolk’s great medieval families, the Pastons. If you ever thought that the Medieval period was of full damsels in distress then the Paston women are here to prove you wrong; often in distress they rarely... Read More
October meeting – Returned from the Front
Our speaker on October 14th will be Nick Stone who is the project co-ordinator for the Returned from the Front Project. Some of you may remember that Nick came and gave us a talk on the Norwich blitz, including some of his excellent ghost images, back in 2014. The Returned... Read More
September Meeting – Aerial Archaeology in Norfolk & Suffolk
For our meeting on September 16th we welcome Sophie Tremlett from the Norfolk Historic Environment Service who is going to talk to us about the role of aerial photography in archaeology with highlights from the Waveney Valley. Sophie has the enviable job title of Senior Air Photo Interpretation Officer for... Read More
July Meeting – Dr Edward Packard
Four years, three months and one week: the First World War diaries of Alice Packard, a Shotley farmer’s wife Ed Packard is a lecturer in History at the University of Suffolk. Among his particular interests are war and peace in Great Britain from 1914 to 1945 and to mark the... Read More
May meeting – Professor Tom Williamson – ‘The Archaeology and History of East Anglia’s Trees and Woodlands’.
Our speaker for May is Professor Tom Williamson. Tom is a leading landscape historian and heads up the Landscape Group within the School of History at UEA – a collection of academics, researchers and research students studying all aspects of the English landscape from later prehistory to the present. He... Read More
EVENTS
May-June Update – Medieval Graffiti and More
The last couple of months have been a bit topsy-turvy but we hope everything will... Read More
March meeting – The Paston Footprints 600 Project & The Hidden Commemoration.
We have had to postpone Lorna’s talk. We will reschedule it for a later date.... Read More
February meeting – Dr Rebecca Pinner – Poetry, Politics & Propaganda in Medieval East Anglia
Following her talk last year on King Edmund, for our February meeting we welcome back... Read More
January Meeting – Dr Dominic Summers – The Seven Sacrament Fonts of East Anglia
For our January meeting we welcome Dr Dominic Summers. Dominic is a researcher of the material... Read More
Walberswick War Walk with Rob Liddiard
A great opportunity to blow the cobwebs away after the Christmas and New Year celebrations.... Read More