How cool is this! Thanks for our first reel @norfolkhods - we’re very excited for September! ✨
Posted @withregram • @norfolkhods A fascinating visit to the stacks room for the HODs team at the Norfolk Heritage Centre @norfolkhc which is tucked away on the second floor of the @millenniumlibrary in @theforumnorwich 🔍
There is just so much to discover... And you'll have the opportunity to explore for yourself during Norfolk HODs 2022!
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Heritage Open Days Online Event: The History of Chocolate in Norwich
Join Archive Specialist Chris as he talks you through Norwich's rich chocolate-making heritage! And after that, Heritage Librarian Rachel shows you how to make your very own chocolate bar wrapper. This online event is part of Heritage Open Days 2021.
Unfinished Business: The Fight for Women's Rights in Norfolk
Inspired by the The British Library's exhibition #UnfinishedBusiness: The Fight for Women's Rights and with support from the Living Knowledge Network, our online exhibition shines a light on the extraordinary Norfolk women and campaigns that have fought for change, including the Rosie's Plaques project.
Explore "Unfinished Business: The Fight for Women's Rights in Norfolk" here: https://unfinishedbusinessnorfolk.wordpress.com/
Heritage Highlights: The Norwich Apocalypse
‘Heritage Highlights’ are an ongoing series of brief talks focusing on key items from the collections held at Norfolk Heritage Centre, on the second floor of the Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library.
In today’s edition of Heritage Highlights we're examining the story behind "The Norwich Apocalypse," an illuminated commentary on the Book of Revelation which dates from approximately 1250.
Heritage Highlights: Cuningham's Map of Norwich
‘Heritage Highlights’ are an ongoing series of brief talks focusing on key items from the collections held at Norfolk Heritage Centre, on the second floor of the Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library.
This edition of ‘Heritage Highlights’ examines a fascinating product of an era of cartographic advance, and a real jewel within the Heritage Centre collections: William Cuningham’s 1558 map of Norwich.
Heritage Highlights: Thomas Paine
‘Heritage Highlights’ are an ongoing series of brief talks focusing on key items from the collections held at Norfolk Heritage Centre, on the second floor of the Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library.
Arguably, no Norfolk-born figure has had as great an impact on the course of world events as writer and political pamphleteer Thomas Paine. Born in Thetford in 1737, Paine was of humble origins, and received only a rudimentary education. Yet by his death in 1809, he had helped to lay the foundations of the United States, played a significant role in the French Revolution, and in his writings inspired generations to come with his attacks on injustice and inequality. This edition of ‘Heritage Highlights’ explores Paine’s life, work and legacy through an examination of a political cartoon held in our collections.
Heritage Highlights: The Norwich Hippodrome
‘Heritage Highlights’ are an ongoing series of brief talks focusing on key items from the collections held at Norfolk Heritage Centre, on the second floor of the Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library.
The decline of Music Hall is a fascinating aspect of the story of popular culture in Britain in the early-to-mid twentieth century. Chris Tracy, Archive Specialist at Norfolk Heritage Centre, traces the arc of that narrative by showcasing items from our collections that shine a light on the fortunes of the Norwich Hippodrome theatre.
Heritage Highlights: Belijdenisse Ende for Refugee Week 2020
‘Heritage Highlights’ are an ongoing series of brief talks focusing on key items from the collections held at Norfolk Heritage Centre, on the second floor of the Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library.
Today, to coincide with ‘Refugee Week’ (15-21 June 2020), we consider a very special book from our collections - the Belijdenisse Ende, the first book printed in Norwich. It sheds light on the contribution made by Norwich’s ‘Strangers’, those immigrants from the Low countries who, fleeing persecution for their Protestant beliefs, came to make a new life in the city in the years following the mid-1560s.
Heritage Highlights: Broadsides
‘Heritage Highlights’ are an ongoing series of brief talks focusing on key items from the collections held at Norfolk Heritage Centre, on the second floor of the Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library.
Today we’re focusing on two particularly striking examples from our collection of Broadside news sheets - ‘Sale of a Wife’ and ‘Performing Elephant.’
Heritage Highlights: The Norwich Canary
Have you ever wondered why Norwich City FC are called the "Canaries"? Archive Specialist Chris Tracy talks us through why the little yellow birds are so central to Norwich's history.
‘Heritage Highlights’ are an ongoing series of brief talks focusing on key items from the collections held at Norfolk Heritage Centre, on the second floor of the Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library.
Heritage Highlights: The Photography of William Finch
It's that time of the week again... another Friday Heritage Highlight!
This week Chris tells us all about William Finch, the local Victorian photographer, and his work.
Our volunteers Kate and Becca are both with us today, exploring the hidden gems of the collection at @norfolk_heritage_centre. Just look at this beautiful daguerreotype they found, from the Thomas Damant Eaton collection of early photographs. The daguerreotype was the first commercially successful photographic process and dated from the mid-1800s. Each daguerreotype is a unique image on a silvered copper plate. They were very expensive to produce, so only the very wealthy could afford to have their portrait. 📸🤵🏻
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