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Norfolk Record Office @NorfolkRO

Situated at The Archive Centre, Martineau Lane, with staff also based at Norfolk Heritage Centre (@NorfolkHC) and King's Lynn Borough Archive.

Joined May 2011
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Norfolk Record Office@NorfolkRO
30 Apr 2025
Norfolk Record Office will no longer be regularly posting on X. Thank you for your contributions over the years. Stay connected with us on our website, blog, Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky and YouTube. Find all of our links here - linktr.ee/norfolkrecordoffic…
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Join us today, Wednesday, April 30th at 1 PM, either in person or online, for Dale Wiseman's FREE presentation: "Once Visited, Never Forgotten: The St Andrew’s Asylum." Reserve your spot now at buff.ly/lAFVZYY. #HistoryBuff #NorfolkStories
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Archives connect us to our past, present and future and most importantly to each other #Archive30 #WhyArchives? Thanks @ARAScot
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Join us tomorrow weds 30 April 1pm inperson or online for Dale Wiseman’s FREE talk Once Visited never forgotten: St Andrew’s Asylum Book buff.ly/lAFVZYY #NorfolkHistory #freetalk
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Join us Behind the Scenes to experience our strongrooms and conservation studios before enjoying some exceptional original documents buff.ly/MuO0dfj #ArchivesBuildings #Archive30 @ARAScot
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Full of hints, tips & resources our fantastic #CommunityArchives buff.ly/8VZkVi1 #OurArchive #YourArchive. @HeritageFundUK #NationalLotteryHeritageFund @ARAScot #Archive30
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One of the biggest #ArchiveMyths is the wearing of white cotton gloves to examine archives. Clean bare hands are best when handling documents, or nitrile gloves when looking at photographs. Find out more buff.ly/ipmZH4S #Archive30 @ARAScot
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Discover #ArchiveTravel around Norfolk from our Reading from the Archives series Norfolk Routes buff.ly/unfGsRt #Archive30 @ARAScot #NorfolkHistory
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This tiny document is a late 18thC fragment of music in tonic sol-fa from the #Wramplingham parish records #SomethingSmall #Archive30 @ARAScot
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A late entry for #ArchiveFoodAndDrink from the parish register of St Martin at Palace Plain, Norwich ~ John son of Elizabeth Pizza widow buried 19 Sep 1725 #Archive30 @ARAScot
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HistoryOfAdvertising@HatAds
7 Apr 2021
A feast for the eyes #Archive30 #ArchiveFoodAndDrink
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For #ArchiveFoodAndDrink we have a collection of 18thC culinary and medicinal recipes NRS 26354, listed by our fabulous volunteers. Almond cheesecake anyone? #Archive30 @ARAScot
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Norfolk Record Office retweeted
Newcastle Uni Special Collections & Archives@ncllibspeccoll
11 Apr 2025
Today's #Archive30 theme is #hiddenhistories We're doing our best to make sure history isn't hidden, and our Special For Everyone Project is working towards making the history of marginalised groups in our collections more visible. Read about it here: ncl.ac.uk/library/special-co…
Image of Tyneside Lesbian and Gay Pride March 1987.

ALT Image of Tyneside Lesbian and Gay Pride March 1987.
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For #ArchiveFashion we have these stunning costume designs by Helen Hoyte MBE NRO, MC 3590 buff.ly/gfdtHSf #Archive30 @ARAScot
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Our favourite #ArchiveAnimals are of course #Dragons. These are from an early 14th C cartulary for Marham Abbey NRO, Hare 1 #Archive30 @ARAScot
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Norfolk Record Office retweeted
Ancient House Museum of Thetford Life@AncientHouseMus
9 Apr 2025
It's Day 9 of @ARAScot's #Archive30 The theme is #SomethingBig This is a detail of Burrell's 1807 Thetford map with paper mill shown at bottom.
A hand drawn colour map of a town centre

ALT A hand drawn colour map of a town centre
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The #NorwichBombMap was created by the Air Raid Precautions Dept during WW2. It has 679 paper labels attached by pins showing location, date and size of each bomb. The map is 188 x 182 x 8cm and was conserved in 2012. #SomethingBig #Archive30 @ARAScot
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Catch up with the recent talk 'Celebrating Literary Treasures: 10 Years of the British Archive for Contemporary Writing at the University of East Anglia' by Dr Helen Busby on our YouTube channel now buff.ly/xQ5QSeY @UEAArchives @uniofeastanglia #ueaarchives #uealiterature
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Join us on Thurs 24 Apr for our Introduction to Scrapbooking workshop. Includes a scrapbooking starter pack which has all materials to create your own scrapbook. A chance to see some of our fabulous documents. buff.ly/7Zg09ZS #scrapbooking #workshop #crafts
NRO, MC 2738/8 Journal of Hilda Zigomala

ALT NRO, MC 2738/8 Journal of Hilda Zigomala
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Exploring the conservation studio is a must-see for any group visit. Here, learning about the humidification chamber's role in conserving parchment. #ParchmentPreservation #ArchiveConservation #Archive30 @ARAScot
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