Surviving the Dissolution: Norwich’s Great Hospital in the Sixteenth Century

The Great Hospital has provided care for the local community continuously for almost 800 years.   Few other charitable organisations in Europe can match this remarkable record and even fewer can boast such a rare combination of architectural and documentary riches.  Although at the time of its foundation in 1249 the…

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The Whirlpool of Misadventures

The Whirlpool of Misadventures: Letters of Robert Paston, First Earl of Yarmouth, 1663-1679 The famous Paston Letters document the rise to wealth and status of a Norfolk family from 1422-1509, and first appeared in print in 1787. The most significant collection of letters detailing the family’s subsequent fortunes is in…

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