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Welcome
Harleston and District Historical Society provides a focus in the town and surrounding district for people interested in its history. The Society run the Harleston Museum, offer monthly lectures , provide walks and trails, and arrange local research projects.
Every September thousands of volunteers across England organise events to celebrate our fantastic history and culture. It's your chance to see hidden places and try out new experiences – all of which are FREE to explore.
Community groups from across Harleston will again work together to create a programme of events throughout Heritage Open Days from 11 – 20 September. The theme for this year will be based around everyday histories of working lives: the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker - what did your ancestors do? From factory floors to kitchen counters, school desks to sailors’ docks, serving halls to vegetable gardens. ​
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Registration of events opens on 2 March. Check back for updates of the Harleston programme.
The Society
Harleston and District Historical Society was founded in 1980 to provide a focus in the town and surrounding district for people interested in its history, to set up and run a museum and to encourage detailed and well focused research into the archives, both written and physical, that abound in the area.
Museum
The Harleston museum may vie for the smallest museum in the county. But what it lacks is size it makes up for in quality of displays.
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There are changing themed displays of aspects of local history. There is always a section devoted to Harleston's association with the Mayflower ship and Pilgrim Fathers
Latest News
Harleston and District Historical Society meet in St John's Church on Broad Street on the third Thursday of each month.
​Meetings start at 2:00 p.m. and last about 2 hours. They usually consist of a speaker on an aspect of local, regional or national historical interest.
Refreshments are available.
Get in Touch
500 Terry Francois Street, 6th Floor. San Francisco, CA 94158
123-456-7890