Week 1: A Really Encouraging Start!

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Summary...
As you can see from the photo (above) we had a fantastic turn-out for our first Club meeting yesterday! Massive thanks to everyone who made the effort to make the journey on what was, initially, a grey, drizzly day. 

The gathering (kindly hosted by Marzanos cafe in the Norwich Forum - thanks to all the staff for facilitating this!), began with me introducing myself and outlining my ideas about how the group might develop. It would have been very easy for folk attending to passively listen to me and Dave (our speaker), but as encouraging people to socialise with other 'history nuts' is part of our ethos, people worked in small groups, sharing then writing down their reasons for attending and initial ideas about how the Club might develop (this has been really useful feedback for me, by the way!). 

Dave then gave a fascinating, engaging and often funny presentation about the nature of civic order and disorder in Early Modern (Tudor/Stuart: 1500-1600s: 16th/17th centuries) Norwich. Being a professional storyteller, he also interspersed this with some entertaining short stories, that he set in the context of the times.   

Feedback...
I have received some really positive feedback about the session from those present. Here is an example:
"I was thoroughly entertained, educated and enthused by today" - Simon.

Next...
We're currently working on the content of next Tuesday's session and I'll be posting something here about that very soon.