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UPDATED ON 1st OCTOBER, 2021 — It was agreed at a recent Committee meeting that our monthly ‘Drop In Tuesday’ sessions at Leiston Library should recommence with effect from 5th October between 2...

On what was optimistically coined as ‘Freedom Day’, our July meeting was treated to an inspiring talk by Sarah Doig, entitled ‘Celebrating Suffolk Women’.  As well as being a popular speaker,...

You may have heard our committee member John Martin talking to Lesley Dolphin on BBC Radio Suffolk last Wednesday about our planned survey of the tombstones in Kelsale churchyard (or have read about t...

POSTED ON 12th JULY 2021 — The Ipswich branch of Suffolk Archives will open at The Hold from the beginning of September 2021.  This will include the John Blatchly Local Studies Library and the invi...

Dear digital Newsletter readers,       The links below will address most of the remaining issues that Maggie mentions in her covering email of 27th June — far fewer than in Newsletter 52.  Also...

UPDATED ON SUNDAY, 4th JULY AT 17:30 — Chris's conversation has just been uploaded onto the ABC Radio website, where he can be heard at "Community News with Katy Bailey | 26/06/21" from 42m58 to 53m...

A soldier killed in the First World War, the man who helped keep the doors to Great Ormond Street Hospital open for more than 30 years, and a 10-year-old servant working for a laundress in 19th-centur...

Our May Zoom-based meeting was treated to an absorbing and highly informative talk by professional genealogist, Les Mitchinson, Dip.Gen.  He took us on a journey spanning nearly 300 years, from the i...