Event Type: Branch

Takes Place: 19th October 2025

Time: 14:30

Venue: Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk, NR256EA

Description: 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’.

How to book: Email the branch: norwichha@gmail.com

Price: Free

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Email: norwichha@gmail.com

Region: East of England

Branch: Norfolk & Norwich