First World War trenches near Norfolk campsite given special listed status norfolklive.co.uk/news/norfolk-n…

If you have tickets for the following, you are in for a treat! If you don’t know about the work of Great War Huts, please do look them up! Great War Huts

Norfolk WW1 training trenches are ‘most unusual' site added to heritage list edp24.co.uk/news/23190037.…

Check out some of the amazing work by our #TeachingMuseum trainees 👇 The new round of Norfolk Museums' award winning Trainee Programme is open! The application pack here bit.ly/3P1tJqs but first watch the briefing film bit.ly/3BoE7Ty

Today is Day 17 of #HutVent Taff has the 'must have' Boy's Christmas gift for 1917 to share with you all today... youtu.be/6O4YR_T7Mj0

Stardust and Moondust have been trying their hand at our Christmas tree trail. Pop in to try it too and win a small prize. #Free with museum admission until the end of December 2023. Kids in Museums Breckland Council @ThetfordCouncil

'Vac-queue-ities!' - Bruce Bairnsfather considers the ways in which the unemployed population might occupy themselves, in this weeks' centenary Fragment. First published in The Bystander 100 years ago today, on 20 Dec 1922.

It’s Day 20 of #HutVent. On Day 20 Kev looks at more aviation items and tells the story of one particular innovative aviator... bitly.ws/y4ve

On the 8th day of #12DaysOfArchives we give you ... A photo of British troops serving on the Western Front in 1914 received Princess Mary boxes from the Royal Family. These were metal cases engraved with an outline of the princess and filled with treats. #Presents

Today's Art UK's #OnlineArtExchange is food & feasting. Here is a page from a First World War autograph book showing a girl struggling with a large pudding.

On the 9th day of #12DaysofArchives we give you ... A Snowball fight on the Western Front in WW1, 1917. This snowball fight took place outside the divisional baths on the Arras Road near St. Pol. #Snow

#ArchiveAdventCalendar #12DaysOfArchives #Family These are the seven Wyatt bothers who served in the First World War. Albert Wyatt joined West Yorkshire Regiment to be with his brother, Herbert, in 1907. 1/3

#OnThisDay in 1916 Bury Free Press reported on the Thetford and District Angling Society pike fishing competition. "Owing to the inclemency the weather there were few competitors, and the catches were small." The Brecks Fen Edge & Rivers Landscape Partnership OSBrecks #HBAHWinter History Begins at Home

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Merry Christmas everybody, all the very best to you all.

Thetford soldier C. Barney, Royal Army Medical Corps, described Christmas 1914: We “had boiled pork, potatoes and carrots and turnips, and plum pudding … Messers Burrell & Sons sent me a nice parcel of fags and chocolates I also go the Queen’s box of tobacco ad cigarettes”

Embroidered postcard from the First World War collected by Private J. W. Abbs. It has a Christmas pudding and CHRISTMAS WISHES embroidered on it, along with the French flag & Union Jack.The embroidery forms a pouch with a little Best Wishes card inside. #norfolkmuseumscollections

The Indian Army in the First World War explained by Dr Adam Prime in this Dispatches Podcast from @Kensington Tom Thorpe. Now fully transcribed> bit.ly/IndianArmyWWI Dr Adam Prime #WW1 #India #IndiaArmy

#OnThisDay in 1913 Suffragette Princess Sophia Duleep Singh refused to pay her taxes. She was a member of the Women's Tax Resistance League, a direct action group that used tax resistance to protest against the disenfranchisement of women.