Category Archives: Events

Envoi

Posted on 17/05/2012 by guntonarchive

This is the fiftieth Gunton Archive blog post, and, sadly, also the last. The project is drawing to its close at the end of this month, and the project archivist, Peter Monteith, who created this blog, has kindly invited me … Continue reading →

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Project News: Book now for a walk at Cromer and Overstrand

Posted on 26/04/2012 by guntonarchive

Don’t miss your chance to see the exhibition in the Long Gallery at The Archive Centre. Our exhibitions last for a maximum of three months, in order to protect the original documents from damage caused by excessive exposure to light. … Continue reading →

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Women in the Gunton archive

Posted on 05/04/2012 by guntonarchive

Yesterday, Eve Read (Archive Specialist at the Norfolk Heritage Centre) gave a fascinating lunchtime talk in The Archive Centre, on Women’s Lives in the Census. She explained enumeration practices and the purpose of the census, the ways in which suffragettes … Continue reading →

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A Norfolk Estate and its Tenants

Posted on 22/03/2012 by guntonarchive

Yesterday, 28 people came to The Archive Centre to hear about how to research tenants on the Gunton estate. They were here for a lunchtime talk, entitled A Norfolk Estate and its Tenants.  I discussed the Gunton project, the estate … Continue reading →

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Lord Suffield

Posted on 05/01/2012 by guntonarchive

Norfolk Record Office was sorry to hear about the death of Anthony Philip Harbord-Hamond, eleventh Baron Suffield, last month. The Eastern Daily Press published a fitting obituary on 20 December 2011, focusing on the interest in cricket which he shared … Continue reading →

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