King’s Lynn did not begin with a public library. It began with books in churches, records in counting houses, papers in civic chests, and learned […]
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Robert Walpole, King’s Lynn, and the South Sea Bubble
A Norfolk MP in a National Panic The South Sea Bubble was not just a bad investment craze. It was a political and financial scandal […]
Read moreRichard Clampe and the Fortress of King’s Lynn
A forgotten figure in Lynn’s Civil War story The siege of King’s Lynn in 1643 is usually remembered through blockade, bombardment, divided loyalties and surrender. […]
Read moreNo Empty Marsh: The Roots of King’s Lynn Before 1066
Not born from nothing King’s Lynn did not begin as a medieval miracle beside an empty marsh. Long before Herbert de Losinga founded St Margaret’s […]
Read moreBridges at Lynn: The Carpenters Behind Edward I’s Scottish Campaign
In 1303 some men from Lynn went to war in an unusual way. Bridges at Lynn: How Carpenters in Lynn Helped Edward I’s 1303 Campaign […]
Read moreArchitecture, Trade, and Civic Ambition: The Custom House, King’s Lynn
The Custom House, King’s Lynn: The Building That Announced a Port Few buildings in King’s Lynn declare the town’s old confidence more clearly than the […]
Read moreThe 1347 Summer when Lynn Seized the Corn
Hunger on the Quay: When Bishop’s Lynn Stopped the Grain Ships A June day at the waterfront The grain was already on the move. On […]
Read moreWhen King’s Lynn Went Conkers: children, chemistry, and the work of war
King’s Lynn played a part in one of the strangest schemes of the First World War. In 1917, as Britain struggled to keep up cordite […]
Read moreKing’s Lynn and the Wool Trade: The Port That Fed Flanders
There are towns whose history can be told through a single building, a single family, or a single dramatic event. King’s Lynn is not one […]
Read moreThe Siege of King’s Lynn, 1643: Why the Town Changed Sides and Paid the Price
In the summer of 1643 King’s Lynn found itself caught in one of the sharpest local reversals of the early Civil War. A port with […]
Read moreThe Lost Market Cross of King’s Lynn: Henry Bell’s Tuesday Market Missing Centrepiece
A market monument at the heart of King’s Lynn At the northern end of King’s Lynn’s Tuesday Market Place there once stood one of the […]
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