Visitors can view the world’s first ever wire netting machine, a chocolate enrobing machine and the restored Jacquard loom; one of thousands that were in daily use in Norwich, but this is the last survivor. But history doesn't stop when it gets close to the modern era, and neither do the displays, for there are exhibits showing how Norwich has changed following the Second World War, with a recreated 1950s sitting room, swinging 60's fashions, and the growth of housing estates in the second half of the 20th century. Homefires. No additional details to show; Favorite Quotes. Norwich has long been a centre for trading and shopping and The Museum of Norwich is packed full with collections from the early 1800s through to the 1960s, including a shop window dressed ready to celebrate Valentine’s Eve, the contents of a local corner shop and hats made by local hat maker Rumsey Wells. It was really a springboard for the rest of his life…that’s the point at which he decided the path of his life.” As a captain he was a driving force behind the early days of English colonisation in North America. In 2012, Norwich became England’s first UNESCO City of Literature, thanks to the city’s long literary history: from Julian of Norwich, the first woman to be published in English in the 14th century, to the establishing of the first Creative Writing Masters at UEA, with graduates including Ian McEwan, Anne Enwright and Kazuo Ishiguro. All this weaving and unweaving of time is rich in historical purpose. Website: Bridewell Museum

The prison was rebuilt and stayed in use until 1828. What was the city to do? Sansom wants to be taken seriously, the same urge felt by the bestselling historical novelist Philippa Gregory, whose Women of the Cousins’ War (2011) is scholarly non-fiction, co-authored with two historians, exploring the lives of three late-medieval women featured in her novels.

There is trouble in Norfolk, where people know their rights and the gentry ‘have a reputation for being as quarrelsome with each other as with their tenants’.

Shardlake is moved by beauty and feels for animals. The privilege of hindsight is not denied to his characters, who reflect on the past as it is to them, distant and near, to make sense of their changing situation. Location The Museum of Norwich at the Bridewell was originally a merchant’s house in 1345 and later became the Bridewell – a ‘house of correction’ for women and vagrants. Sansom has given his hero his own passion for the law, its stately, logical protocols, its civility and rationalism. Better to be late in this life than early in the next Im just off to check the drainage in the lower field sirrrrr. Find housing exhibits of local industries from the textile trade, shoes, chocolate and most famously – Colman’s mustard. Museum of Norwich - at the Bridewell. map As ever, Shardlake has mixed feelings, which he admits to us alone and which of course make us like him. Please include name, address and a telephone number. Sansom recreates this hopeful yet fleeting and doomed moment with sensitivity and sympathy, evoking a remarkable rebellion that sprang from the trauma of social change.
15th century with 18th- and 19th-century alterations.

The facts never impede the story, and rarely clunk as they’re dropped in. Museum of Norwich at the Bridewell, Bridewell Alley, Norwich, Norfolk, NR2 1AQ, https://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/museum-of-norwich, Become a member of English Heritage today, For the iconic Norfolk Broads, a prestigious scholarly history and vast sandy beaches. Scarnsea’s bells were old Spanish trophies; its best relic travelled from 11th-century France and before that from Ancient Rome.

Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 23 January 2018. Norwich Bridewell Museum, Bridewell Alley.

The Bridewell was, as its name suggests, a prison and house of correction for beggars and women. A canal was dug from the River Wensum at Pull’s Ferry to bring in limestone from Caen in Normandy.