TALK  What the Normans did to ….. and for Norwich.

W﻿e organise an annual programme of events focusing on the history of Norwich, including talks, walking tours and visits. The majority of these are open to the general public as well as Members of the Norwich Society Members.

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<h3>Norwich has always welcomed Strangers to its city but some have been more welcome than others. The Normans disrupted Anglo-Scandinavian life, breaking the 200-year link with Denmark and reconnecting with France and Europe.</h3> Dominant new buildings were raised and the layout radically changed but the Normans brought order, recognition and prosperity.This is a repeat of our sell-out February Talk and is part of The Norwich History Festival 2025. See <a href="https://norwichhistoryfestival.co.uk/" title="https://norwichhistoryfestival.co.uk/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">HERE </a>for more details.

Adrian O'Dell is the son of a Polish Air Force officer and a nurse from Lancashire and was educated at the City of Norwich School. After an international career in the oil industry, he‘retired’ to Norfolk and has devoted himself to the study of Norfolk and Norwich’s history and heritage. He is a freelance city tour guide and was also a trustee of the Norfolk &amp; Norwich Heritage Trust (Dragon Hall) before it was passed on to the National Centre for Writing. He has completed post-graduate studies in Landscape History at UEA. Adrian is Chair of the Norfolk Polish Heritage Group which researches and archives stories of Polish immigration into Norfolk since World War II and has dual British/Polish nationality.

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