Talks
Charlie Haylock’s Eccentric Look at Suffolk
20250801

A unique opportunity to hear Charlie Haylock’s hilarious tales of Suffolk life before he retires at the end of the year. He regularly has his audiences in stitches with his characteristic rustic st...
- Fri 1 Aug
- 60 minutes
Charlie Haylock - The Suffolk Dialect
20250801

Charlie Haylock was the man responsible for ensuring that Ralph Fiennes spoke in a genuine Suffolk accent for his performance as Basil Brown on the Dig. Charlie will show us how he did it so we can...
- Fri 1 Aug
- 60 minutes
The Great Santanic Swindle - Presented by The Holloway
20250801

The Holloway Presents The Great Satanic Swindle: A bizarre true tale of Tabloid England. Once, a mysterious stranger arrived in a small Sussex village and told a tale of witchcraft, trapped souls...
- Fri 1 Aug
- 60 minutes
New Black Shuck Encounters - Norfolk Folklore Society
20250803

The Norfolk Folklore Society presents: A Day of the Strange and Supernatural. A spectral hound with eyes like burning coals, prowling the lanes, shorelines and churchyards of East Anglia… Black Sh...
- Sun 3 Aug
- 60 minutes
Digging up the Forgotten
20250803

Digging up the forgotten: the hidden history of Romany Gypsies in Britain. For more than five centuries, Romany Gypsies have been part of British life, and for just as long, they have been subjecte...
- Sun 3 Aug
- 60 minutes
Tradition is Good for You! - Lucy Wright
20250803

Can reinventing a folk custom be just as meaningful as preserving one? Artist, researcher and self-declared “hedge morris dancer” Lucy Wright thinks so, and in this lively talk, she’ll share how folk...
- Sun 3 Aug
- 60 minutes
The Binbrook Witch House - Dr Kate Cherrell
20250803

In 1905, the White family of rural Lincolnshire found themselves at the centre of a terrifying haunting. Their livestock was cursed, machinery mysteriously broken, and spontaneous fires began to erupt...
- Sun 3 Aug
- 60 minutes
The Green Children of Woolpit, folklore or fact? - Deborah Hyde
20250803

A pair of children with green-tinged skin, speaking no known language, emerging from a pit on the edge of a Suffolk village in the 12th century... Were they lost travellers, fairy folk, or something e...
- Sun 3 Aug
- 60 minutes
The Lost Folk - In Coversation with Lally MacBeth
20250803

Join the Norfolk Folklore Society’s Siofra and Stacia for a captivating conversation with artist, writer and folklorist Lally MacBeth, whose debut book The Lost Folk has fast become essential reading ...
- Sun 3 Aug
- 60 minutes
Unusual Architecture - presented by Art History
20250912

Roger Simpson presents a series of 6 talks on some oddities of architectural history. £10.00 per talk, £51.00 for all 6 bought in advance in one transaction. September 12th . Solid Rock. The ro...
- Fri 12 Sep to Fri 17 Oct
- 120 minutes