The SIAH joint project with the Bodleian Library to digitise and publish online all their Suffolk charters is almost complete. To view the charters see https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/collections/suffolk-charters/ . The project will be launched at the SIAH AGM on 6 April 2024 at the Bury Guildhall.

2023

Wed Oct 25 1000 on Zoom: John Craig, Puritanism and reading - reconstructing the library of William Dowsing
Sat 11 Nov 1400 at Elmswell: Geoffrey Robinson, Restoring an [sic] historic Suffolk painting - Captain John Henniker-Major of the Loyal Worlingworth Volunteers 1798-1802 (+council)
Sat 25 Nov 1400 on Zoom: Keith Briggs, The Ipswich ancestors of Geoffrey Chaucer
Sat 09 Dec 1400 at Elmswell: Victoria Clark, Shrublands and the Middleton family

2024
Sat 13 Jan 1400 at Elmswell: Phil Roberts, The life and death of Cardinal Wolsey (+council)
Wed 24 Jan 1000 on Zoom: Louise Kennedy, Easton Bavents c.1480-1680 - a study of community, kinship, and coastal erosion
Sat 10 Feb 1400 at Elmswell: Tony Redman, The stones of Suffolk and some of the people who formed them
Sat 25 Feb 1400 on Zoom: Edward Martin, Life and death in the Bronze Age
Sat 09 Mar 1400 at Elmswell: Joanna Caruth, title to be announced (+council)

Bob Malster, a journalist and historian who published a great amount on both Suffolk and Norfolk, died on 16 April aged 91 (not 90 as in the Eastern Daily Press item below). He was a long-standing member of both the SIAH, the Suffolk Records Society, and the Suffolk Local History Council.

An obituary by Paul Botwright is here: Obituary_-_Bob_Malster_-_by_Paul_Botwright.pdf

This is the obituary in the Eastern Daily Press: https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/23472127.obituary-robert-malster-90-historian-journalist/.

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