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Little Waldingfield History Society
Purposes of the Society
Per our constitution, the Society was established with the following purposes:
To maintain records of local historical events, including records, maps, photos and other similar, as appropriate, and to provide a basis for future local history events, historical research, education and for use as a reference by villagers and others.
The most visible aspect of the above is our regular series of talks / presentations on historical topics the Trustees believe will be of interest to both members and non members, which we believe are interesting, entertaining and exceptional value for money. We also put on outings for members in between each years series of monthly talks. Please refer to our separate History Society pages for details of our forthcoming programme of events and summary reviews of all our previous events, which gratifyingly have been exceedingly well received by our members.
History Society Associations
LWHS is a member of the Suffolk Local History Council, who act as a focal point for local history societies in Suffolk, maintain a list of speakers and run events.
All of our non-village sourced speakers came from their speaker list, whilst two trustees attended their recent “Societies Day” event, which was found to be of interest and of use.
All Our Stories Project
We were delighted to receive an HLF grant to research the history of Little Waldingfield and to conduct a number of oral interviews with our longer standing residents, which is proceeding nicely as this message is typed. We hope ultimately to record our findings in an updated history of the village from the early 1800's to date - please see our blog for more regular updates - littlewaldingfieldhistorysociety.wordpress.com
To facilitate our research, we have borrowed all of historical village records from our Local History Recorder - see below. We would also be delighted to borrow any documents, photos, artefacts or other records pertaining to the village or its residents from times gone by from readers of this website, which we would then scan, copy, photograph or summarise for possible inclusion in our book - which will be a follow-up to Harry Clive's "Beyond Living memory".
Although this project has now very successfully completed, book sales are generating more research material, which is wonderful. If any reader has any connection with the village, however tenuous or remote, and they have any material of possible relevance, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact the Little Waldingfield History Recorder - see separate page.