Events

James Bagge will be sketching out his family’s illustrious history based at the beautiful Stradsett Hall in Norfolk in our final True’s Talk this autumn. True’s Talks are free but places are limited. Please call…

In our 7th True’s Talk, Tony Kirby will be enthralling us with a history of the origins of the traditional sea side holiday, how and why these became popular and then declined. Tony will be…

Dr. Michael Gilbert will be presenting the 6th talk in our latest series of True’s Talks at the museum this autumn. His talk will present a stimulating account of the to-ings and fro-ings of the…

Following our intriguing exhibition at True’s Yard charting the introduction of fish and chips into our national psyche as the familiar and favourite slap up meal it is today, Jeff Hoyle, local columnist and historian,…

  Dr. Julian Litten will be presenting his insights into the life of Chauncey Hare Townshend (1798-1868). A former student at Eton and Cambridge (B.A. 1821; M.A. 1824), he took holy orders but was not…

This talk by Dr. John Alban (Honorary Associate Professor, School of History and Art History, UEA) will deal with English – and, in particular, Norfolk – involvement in a late fourteenth-century military campaign in the…

Dr. Paul Richards will be giving the second talk in this season’s True’s Talks series, titled ‘500 Years Since Lynn’s Tudor Political Revolution (1524-2024)’ to explain the changes brought about to King’s Lynn during this…

Join us for a fascinating talk by local historian and former medical practitioner, Dr. Eric Somerville, on ‘Death in the Time of Cholera: A Lethal Outbreak in London in 1854’. This will be the first…