Be a Heritage Detective
This website you are currently visiting details the Paston walks with associated drama, history, digital, wellbeing and child-friendly resources. This is also a platform to celebrate the 21st century chapter of Paston interpretations, where we publish creative and cultural contemporary storytelling.
After your walk, if you are inspired to discover much more, listen to readings of the letters, visit the archives in Norwich, or dig deep into the story by using the options below to enter our online Paston heritage portal.
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15th and 17th century letters
and other Paston archives: originals, editions and creative translations
Read the letters online
Watch more animations, interact with the family tree and read biographies.
Meet more Pastons
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Go manor mapping across 15th to 17th century Norfolk, hear about Shakespeare's connection and learn the day-to-day history of life beyond Kings and Queens.
Places & Topics
Discover how to join the dots through drones, digs, paintings, archives and artistic interpretation to reconstruct Paston homes and more.
Digital Archaeology
Have an Archive Experience
Explore Original Paston Letters
in the Norfolk Record Office
One of Paston Footprints' key partners, the NRO, digitised the Robert Paston and Lady Katherine Paston seventeenth century letters that are held in the Record Office, beside County Hall on Martineau Lane, in Norwich. The later Paston letters are available online at our heritage portal for the first time.
We also co-developed with the graphic designer Darren Leader Studio, a 17th-18th century Norfolk palaeography course (samples above), which the NRO continue to run.
Check out the NRO site for current
