Meetings 2025
Sudbury Ephemera Archive are once again holding their bi-monthly working sessions at Sudbury Town Hall. However, to keep our volunteers safe, would members of the public wishing to join a session please contact us (by phone or email) beforehand, as we are limited in the space we have at these sessions.
Please note: there will be no sessions held at Sudbury Town Hall on Monday 14 April and Wednesday 28 May.
Due to circumstances beyond our control SEA will not be meeting on Wednesday 26th March.
Donations
SEA is always pleased and delighted to accept donations of items, but will need prior notice to discuss how and when we can arrange handover of them. We can be contacted by phone or email, or you can leave your details with Sudbury Town Hall.
Speaker available
If your club, society or function would like to hear a talk on any of the following topics, please contact Sue Tibbetts (susantibbetts@me.com, 07846 885909). No fee is charged, but a donation towards the work of the Sudbury Ephemera Archive is appreciated.
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| Transportation or emigration? This is about the convicts (from Sudbury and North Essex and their crimes) sent to Van Diemen’s Land (now know as Tasmania) and the families who followed them to settle there rather than return home. Included in the talk are details of the conditions these convicts and passengers suffered on the journey. |
| Sudbury Ephemera Archive – an insight into how we store items and some specific items. |
| The employment of the female population of Ballingdon in the second half of the nineteenth century. Researched from census records of the time. |
| When Sudbury hosted the Suffolk Show – an insight into the planning and organisation of the Suffolk Show and agricultural life 1870-1907. Researched from newspapers and minutes of the Suffolk Agricultural Association. |
| Sunday Schools in Sudbury and pre-state education. Researched from local documents and newspapers. |
| The story of a very ordinary family from the mid-eighteenth century to the twentieth century. Researched from archives deposited with the SEA from the last surviving member of the family. |
| Belle Vue, Red Cross Hospital and some of the patients from 1915-1918. This is based on the cartoons and entries made in autograph books and given to VAD nurses at the hospital. |
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| Sudbury Ephemera Archive has been granted Charitable Status by The Charity Commission for England and Wales (Registered Number 1150903) |