Resources The Norwich Society Book Club
Book Club Reviews
The Norwich Society Book Club meets monthly from October to May and discusses pre-selected books and related topics about Norfolk and Norwich's history.
The Club meets on Mondays at 2.30pm at the Theatre Royal, Theatre Street Norwich NR2 1RL
Monday 24th November Boleyns of Blickling: from Plough to Crown in 100 years. Weigan
Could supplement with An Angel Amongst Strange Bears by Beresford-Frye about the Hobart family also of Blickling.
Monday January 12th 2026 Robert Malster, Maritime Norfolk
Monday February 23rd Lost Villages of Norfolk. Cameron Self (as this is a slim work, Stephen Wade's Lost to the Sea, on Norfolk & Suffolk, or Deserted Villages of Norfolk by Davison would be good companion pieces)
Monday April 13th Matthew Williams, Masterful Mister Collins, City Engineer
Monday May 25th Sylvia Townsend Warner: The Corner that Held Them and/or The Flint Anchor. There’s also the Claire Harman biography of her.
Threads, the book about John Craske by Julia Blackburn, also has some coverage of STW.