Norfolk Women in History

On Friday 6 March we will be celebrating International Women’s Day with our very first Archive Afternoon. Between 2-3.30pm join us to see the exhbition First World War Women of Norfolk: Legacies and her Daryl Long talking about women included in the exhibition’s Roll of Honour. In addition you have a rare chance to see the Harleston Tablecloth, signed by soldiers and medical staff at the 2 Red Cross Hospitals inthe town during the war, before it goes on display at a national museum.

On Friday 8 March 2019 as part of International Women’s Day we are holding a Biograthon 10am-1pm to add content to this site.  We will spend the morning researching and writing to celebrate the achievements of Norfolk women.

Follow us on twitter @NorfolkRO  also #BalanceforChange and #IWD2019 to see what we are discovering.

We are really pleased to announce that we are running a walk looking at the history of women in Norwich as part of Heritage Open Days 2018.

The walk, which ties in with this years theme of extraordinary women, will look both the well known and lesser know women in the city. From internationally renowned women such as Edith Cavell, to some of the city’s midwives. At each stop we will be looking at the stories of these women using documents from our archives.

The walk is already fully booked, but we hope to recap some of those stories on this website later in the year. Please follow our blog to be the first to know when we release the stories we have uncovered.

Why not come along to the Norfolk Record Office on Tuesday, 15 March 2016 2-3.30pm to see some of the original documents from this site.

Tomorrow, Wednesday 11 March 2015, Norfolk Record Office will have a Pop-up shop at the free Women Reaching Women event at The Forum, Norwich for International Women’s Day.

Popular local historian and Norfolk Record Office archivist, Frank Meeres, will also be giving a talk….

Dorothy Jewson – Suffragette and Socialist

Wednesday, 11 March 2015 11.00-11.45 am in the Curve at the Forum, Norwich.

Students from the School of Film, Television and Media Studies at the University of East Anglia have been making films inspired by this website.

On Monday, 10 March 2014 they will preview their films at the Norfolk Record Office to celebrate International Women’s Day.

The films will then appear on the appropriate pages of this site.

Students interviewing historian Frank Meeres at the Norfolk Record Office.

Inspired by International Women’s Day the Norfolk Women in History Timeline is an ongoing project developed by the Norfolk Record Office, Norfolk Library and Information Service and Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service to promote and celebrate the role Norfolk women have played in the history of our county and beyond.