Tempests, Turnips and Tithe Feasts:

The Lost Diary of a Waveney Parish Clerk.

Over a turbulent forty year period when Europe was engulfed by the Napoleonic Wars, the Parish Clerk in Syleham, called Charles Souter made entries in his diary providing a fascinating glimpse into the lives of working people who lived in the towns and villages along the Suffolk and Norfolk banks of the Waveney River.

Light refreshments will be available.

There will also be an opportunity to buy Stephen's new book 'Tempests, Turnips and Tithe Feasts: The Lost Diary of a Waveney Parish Clerk'

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Norfolk Record Office, Archive Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom

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