Autumn Coffee and Cakes talks
These talks are only available by booking your
ticket in advance. Doors open 15 minutes before the start time
listed.
Talks include coffee, tea and cakes and cost £5.50 per
person.
Celebrating Tudor Suffolk: 1558 was an important
year for the Tudor dynasty. ‘Bloody’ Mary died, and Elizabeth
I came to the throne. Clive Paine continues his major series
of talks on Tudor Suffolk exploring the impact of the change in
ruler on the County and its people - with a little glimpse at the
Stuart dynasty....
Celebrating the National Year of Reading
Many of our
events have a literary theme this year to celebrate with Libraries
the National Year of Reading. Suffolk has a strong literary
heritage and this is explored by local historians in this series of
lectures. Come and be enthralled.....
Celebrating Christmas
As usual, the Record
Office is offering seasonal lectures to delight and
entertain....
Suffolk in 1588, the year of the Spanish Armada -
Celebrating Tudors
Clive Paine
In July and August 1588 England was faced with the threat of
invasion and conquest. The Elizabethan government had
prepared for the eventuality by surveying the coastal defences of
southern and eastern England, raising troops and commissioning
ships. This talk examines the background to the Armada and,
using documents, maps and accounts, the role that Suffolk and
Norfolk were to to play in the events of 1588 - including coastal
defences by forts, munitions and beacons; the provision of ships
and the mustering of the local militia forces.
Saturday 18 October
2008 10.30am Bury
Saturday 18 October
2008 2.00pm Ipswich
The Ghost Stories of M R James - Celebrating the National
Year of Reading
Clive Paine
M R James, antiquarian, Biblical scholar and author of ghost
stories grew up in Livermere where his father was Rector. He
knew the landscape and history of the Bury area intimately.
Careful research has revealed that several of the ghost
stories are set around Bury.
Saturday 1 November
2008
10.30am Bury
Saturday 1 November
2008
2.00pm Ipswich
Ghosts and legends - Celebrating the National Year of
Reading
Ivan Bunn
Fascinating legends and ghost stories of Suffolk....come and be
entertained!
Sunday 2 November
2008 11.00am
Lowestoft
The Gunpowder Plot - Celebrating Tudor
Suffolk
Clive Paine
On 28 January 1606, Guy Fawkes was hanged, drawn and quartered for
his part in the Gunpowder Plot. On the same day, Ambrose
Rookwood, a Suffolk gentleman of Coldham Hall, Stanningfield was
also executed as one of the plotters. This talk investigates
the motives of the plot and how Ambrose became involved.
Saturday 8 November
2008
10.30am Bury
Saturday 8 November
2008 2.00pm
Ipswich
A.B.C. - the History of the Teaching of Reading -
Celebrating the National Year of Reading
Clive
Paine
Alphabets, simple stories with short words, plenty of illustrations
to prompt discussions are common to all our early educational
experience. Using primers, ABCs and early reading books Clive will
examine how children were taught to read in the period before state
education.
Saturday 15 November
2008 10.30am Bury
NFU Centenary - 2008
Guy Smith
From humble origins of a motley collection of County Farmer's
Unions, the NFU grew into the nation's leading farming body. This
is a remarkable story of challenge and change.
Saturday 22 November
2008 10.00am Ipswich
Suffolk's Folk Tales - Celebrating the National Year of
Reading
The Folk Tales of Suffolk, although few in number, have parallels
with other English and Continental examples. A different
strand of Folk Tales is based on actual events such as the Green
Children of Woolpit, the Wildman of Orford and Black Schuck, the
Hound of Hell.
Saturday 22
November 2008 10.30am Bury
Charles Dickens and Suffolk - Celebrating the National Year
of Reading
Clive Paine
Dickens drew on personal experiences and visits to Ipswich, Bury
and Sudbury to provide background and characters for both the
'Pickwick Papers' and his novels. This talk investigates
Dickens' links with Suffolk and asks if Smike ran the Old Curiosity
Shop on the Cornhill at Bury?
Saturday 29 November
2008 10.30am Bury
Voyage Round East Anglia
Robert Simper
Local author Robert Simper gives an illustrated talk about the
coastal and river estuaries of Suffolk.
Saturday 29 November
2008 2.00pm Lowestoft
A Dickens of a Christmas - Celebrating
Christmas
Clive Paine
Charles Dickens in his 'Pickwick papers', 'Christmas Carol' and
'Household Words' fired the public imagination and created the
model of how Christmas ideally should be celebrated. This
illustrated talk, interspersed with readings investigates 'What the
Dickens did Dickens actually have to say about Christmas?'
Saturday 6 December
2008 10.30am Bury
Some Clerical Characters in 19th and 20th Century
Suffolk
Roy Tricker
Introducing a few of our more unusual and eccentric Anglican clergy
and their churches.
Saturday 6
December 2.00pm Ipswich
A Christmas Stocking - Celebrating Christmas
Dr Pat
Murrell
Join Pat Murrell when she will be filling this seasonal item of
footwear with traditional gifts and explaining their history for
your amusement in her festive lecture for 2008. Accompanied
by homemade mince pies with their special filling too!
"Sloightly on the huh"
Charlie Haycock
An eccentric look at Suffolk, its dialect, characters, social
history and why Suffolk people are asked what part of Australia
they are from!
Saturday 21 February
2009 10.00am
Ipswich
Bookings should be made on the booking form and sent to the
relevant branch of the
Suffolk Record Office.