Norfolk & Norwich Programme 2025 - 26

For all enquiries, please contact Simon Kinder norwichha@gmail.com

Venue: Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk, NR25 6EA

HA members free, visitors £5 per event. Branch Associate membership is £15 per year.  

 

Sunday 19 October 2025, 2.30pm

Family Fortunes: Jacobean Merchants in King’s Lynn

Dr G. Alan Metters FHA, Historian

Dr Alan Metters will examine the mercantile elite of King's Lynn in the early modern period, concentrating on how they ‘got on’ in the political sense - how they joined the elite and became members of the borough's governing body. The talk will be illustrated using three particular case studies: the Clarke family; Thomas Snelling and his family; and the remarkable Atkin family - all of them, in some ways, ‘incomers’, or outsiders, who still managed to get to the top of Lynn’s ‘greasy pole’.