The Journal of The Blakeney Area Historical Society (BAHS) Sales Click here for information about purchasing copies of the Glaven Historian. Searching Glaven Historians Glaven Historian which are available to the public may be searched using your web browser (Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, …) and a search engine (Google, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, …).Read more about
Click here to see the public register of accessions. The Columns Column 1: Access No Stands for Accession Number. The Blakeney History Group, forerunner of the BAHS, accumulated records obtained from the Norfolk Record Office (NRO) in Norwich. They were copied, transcribed or summarised and are included in the Accessions list in a bloc numbered 21183
Contents This page lists information (images AND text) on local parish records, census returns, burial records, tithe records, land tax returns, local school registers, ship registers, etc. This information is provided to assist in deciding whether a visit to the History Centre may benefit your research. However, please do not assume that it is either
Click here for an online version presented as a portable document format Contents Church & other Organs in the Glaven Valley Andrew Hayden Synopsis: Church organs have a long history dating back to at least the 12th century. In the Glaven Valley and some of the surrounding villages there are a number of fine historic organs from
From BAHS member Margaret Bird, 20 March 2023:A 32-page booklet, Georgian Holt at Work and Play, will be published by the Holt Society on 3 April 2023. Written by Margaret Bird, it features social and commercial life in Holt and the surrounding area in the period 1780-1810 when Mary Hardy was writing her daily diary
When using a spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel (Excel) it may help to format the cells containing information to get the best results. The method of doing this will vary in other spreadsheet programs/apps but similar features are likely to exist. When data is entered into a cell (the intersection of a column and row) of
From BAHS member Margaret Bird, 19 March 2023: In October 2022 a highly significant body of manuscripts, photographs and maps from the Cozens-Hardy Collection was lodged in the Norfolk Record Office (NRO) by Caroline Holland, née Cozens-Hardy. Caroline is a BAHS member and is descended from the Letheringsett diarist Mary Hardy. This news item is
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Every year Blakeney, like many villages, towns and cities around the country, remembers the sacrifices made in both World Wars by men whose names are inscribed on village memorials. Who were they? In this study an attempt has been made to collect the names of all who served in WW1, with greater attention being paid
This ‘What’s New’ page doesn’t list all changes. Changes of a regular nature, such as updating the list of events, addition of news, newsletters or minor updates to existing content are, in general, not recorded. 22 August 2022 With the publication of Glaven Historian Issue 18 (2022), Glaven Historian Issue 10 (2007) has been made