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Autumn experiences

Focus on your wellbeing this autumn with immersive walk experiences and self development opportunities

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Paston Walk experiences

Autumn and Winter

Heritage lovers, family-friendly, wellbeing and experience-seeking walk experiences are on offer. All the walks can be self-guided. Check out the walk overview pages for resources. Enjoy Norfolk's splendid Autumnal colours and winter landscapes!

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Exhibition: 'Finding Paston Footprints'

Norfolk Record Office

Watch back the webinars and workshops from this exhibition to explore the entire 15th to 17th century Paston story.

Themes include Serendipity & Survival; Interdisciplinary Heritage; Reading Between the lines; Paston Family Bubble; and Rebel Women.

Archive Hacks: Online training

September to November 2021 SOLD OUT

Would you like to read an original Paston letter? Would you like to understand 16th to early 18th century archives? What are the quick ways to find information in title deeds or wills or fictitious law suits?

UEA and the Norfolk Record Office bring you two free six week online courses to equip you with skills to understand and 'hack' old archives. One course is on palaeography (handwriting) and the other on types of record. As well as video demonstrations, there is live tutoring from Tom, NRO archivist.

Watch the trailer videos below for a preview.

Reading from the Archives: Early Pastons

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Norfolk Record Office

Reading from the Archives: Early Pastons

This special edition of our popular Reading from the Archives event looks at some of the letters written by the Paston family and their correspondents. This film will include the world’s earliest Valentine’s letter, from Margery Brews to John Paston III, Feb 1477 read in middle English and a letter by Sir John Fastolf to John Paston in 1455. Supported by the National Heritage Lottery Fund, Paston Footprints is a collaboration between the University of East Anglia, the Paston Heritage Society and Norfolk Record Office.

Reading from the Archives: Later Pastons

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Norfolk Record Office

Reading from the Archives: Later Pastons

This special session of our popular Reading from the Archives event looks at some of the letters written by the Paston family and their correspondents. This session focuses on the 'Later' Pastons, Rebecca Paston and John Clayton’s letters to Sir Robert Paston describing his experiments with alchemy. Supported by the National Heritage Lottery Fund, Paston Footprints is a collaboration between the University of East Anglia, the Paston Heritage Society and Norfolk Record Office.

‘Paper is Deynty’: The Significance of Paper in the Paston Letters

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Norfolk Record Office

‘Paper is Deynty’: The Significance of Paper in the Paston Letters

Paper is the main tool of communication in fifteenth-century England. The Paston family’s letters and network of acquaintances show that paper had made the transition from being a technological novelty to becoming a familiar tool, an essential instrument in everyday life. In this talk, Orietta Da Rold discusses how paper established itself as a commodity in epistolary culture and the stories paper can tell about medieval society and modes of communication.

Archives Hacks Course; Darren Leader Design Studio with Norfolk Record Office and UEA

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Archives Hacks Course; Darren Leader Design Studio with Norfolk Record Office and UEA

Palaeography: 16th-18thc Norfolk Handwriting Course (2021): Darren Leader Design Studio with the Norfolk Record Office and UEA

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Palaeography: 16th-18thc Norfolk Handwriting Course (2021): Darren Leader Design Studio with the Norfolk Record Office and UEA

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