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Updates on Dunwich Museum by Matt Salusbury, Chair of the Museum's trustees, editor of its newsletter and among its biggest fans. Museum currently open 11.30-4.30 daily. https://www.dunwichmuseum.org.uk/

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It's our members' AGM on Saturday 25th October, 3pm, #Dunwich Reading Room.

24.10.2025 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Representing @Dunwichmuseum at the @eastsuffolkone birthday tonight in Oulton.

23.10.2025 22:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dunwich Museum Leaf Printing Workshop,
Sunday 26th October 12-3pm
Learn the art of gel printing with leaves in this artist led workshop.
Β£10 for adults Β£3 for children
Email to book and find out more: chronicles@dunwichmuseum.org.uk

19.10.2025 16:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Saturday evening's Dunwich Museum talk on the woodwoses and wildmen of #Suffolk is online, but if you find yourself in #Dunwich, there will be a group of people gathering in the Reading Room to watch it on the big screen. www.dunwichmuseum.org.uk/events/

17.10.2025 19:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Artist Dee Nicholson is exhibiting her machine-stitched pictures - including some inspired by the #Suffolk and Norfolk coast - in the #Dunwich Fisherman's Hut from Friday 16 October.

17.10.2025 12:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Norfolk’s vanishing coast and the limits of protection Norfolk’s crumbling coastline exposes the human cost of climate change – and the painful limits of what councils can do

Norfolk’s disappearing cliffs are not just a local story.

They’re a glimpse of Britain’s future as sea levels rise.

Owen Sennitt reports

14.10.2025 07:57 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Woodwoses and Wildmen of Suffolk An online talk by Matt Salusbury onSuffolk's strange woodwose figures.

Saturday 18 Oct, 6.30pm: The Woodwoses and Wildmen of Suffolk. FT regular Matt Salusbury investigates Suffolk's wildmen in an online event. Please email chronicles@dunwichmuseum.org.uk and get your free ticket at on our Eventbrite page!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-woodwo...

10.10.2025 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Flood alert for The Suffolk coast at Southwold - GOV.UK Flooding information and advice for the area: The Suffolk coast at Southwold, including Reydon Marshes.

Flood warning ⚠️ around Southwold, #Suffolk (next but one beach up the coast from #Dunwich) flooding on roads expected, night of Sunday 5 October. Earlier flood warning for A12 road at Blythburgh has now ended. Update expected 11am Monday 6 October. check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/target-area/...

05.10.2025 14:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Flood alerts and warnings - GOV.UK Check your risk of flooding. View the latest flood warnings and alerts, get a flood forecast for the next 5 days, and check the latest river, sea, groundwater and rainfall levels.

Flood warning ⚠️ for "Suffolk Coadt from Lowestoft to Bawdsey" still in force until 9pm Sunday 5 October 2025 at the earliest. Environment Agency are out checking flood defences. Update due 11am Monday 6 October. check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/alerts-and-w...

05.10.2025 14:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Flood alert for The Suffolk coast from Lowestoft to Bawdsey - GOV.UK Flooding information and advice for the area: The Suffolk coast from Lowestoft to Bawdsey, including the Blyth and Alde and Ore estuaries.

Flood alert for "Lowestoft to Bawdsey" - most of the #Suffolk coast, including #Dunwich until the morning of Sunday 5 Oct 2025. Update follows at 11am. check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/target-area/...

04.10.2025 22:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Call for Evidence - Committees - UK Parliament Coastal erosion and landslips

Consultation on coastal erosion and landslips and their effect on local communities, launched by Parliament's Environment, Food & Rural Affairs Committee - deadline to respond is 10 10 25. Thanks to @alteredcoast.bsky.social for alerting us. committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evi...

04.10.2025 16:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Two trees blown down by a storm today on the track between #Dunwich Village and Dingle (the Suffolk Coastal Path).

04.10.2025 13:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dunwich Heath features in the current (October 2025) issue of "Suffolk" magazine. @DunwichHeath

01.10.2025 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Dunwich Coffee Morning is reviving, hosted by Dunwich Museum, starting Thursday 16 October 10.30-12 in the Reading Room. Volunteers need to prepare food, set up and serve tea and coffee.

01.10.2025 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Another stranded seal 🦭 pup was rescued from the beach today by #Dunwich's trained volunteers and taken to the rescue centre. Named Greyfriars Bobby.

25.09.2025 20:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dunwich features as "Suffolk's own Atlantis" on this Suffolk and Essex Coasts and Heaths National Landscape poster on display at Manningtree Station.

20.09.2025 22:46 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Woodwoses and Wildmen of #Suffolk - a Dunwich Museum
talk -
Saturday 18th October 2025 6:30pm online via Zoom. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-woodwo...

20.09.2025 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Two seventh-century people found with west African ancestry – a story of diversity and integration in early Anglo-Saxon society We should not be surprised that there are west Africans in early medieval Britain, the clues were there.

DNA analysis of skeletons in two 7th-century Anglo-Saxon burials show that a girl buried in Kent had a West African great-grandparent and a young man buried in Dorset had a West African grandparent. theconversation.com/two-seventh-...

20.09.2025 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I was on duty for the early shift at Dunwich Museum today, in my β€œThe Dunwich Horror” T shirt.
Although the film, loosely based on the HP Lovecraft horror novella, is set in a fictional Dunwich, Massachusetts so it has only a tenuous connection to Dunwich, #Suffolk.

16.09.2025 22:25 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Vintage car rally today at Dunwich, #Suffolk

16.09.2025 22:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dunwich Museum
Victorian Puzzle Book Workshop
Saturday 27th September 12-3pm
Learn how to make your own Victorian puzzle book in this artist-led workshop.
Create art inspired by Dunwich and nature.
Β£10 for adults Β£3 for children
Email to book and find out more!
chronicles@dunwichmuseum.org.uk

07.09.2025 21:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Woodlands damaged after fire breaks out Fire crews from Stradbroke, Leiston and Bungay attended a blaze in Dunwich forest at the weekend, which is a National Landscape.

Fire πŸ”₯ broke out in #Dunwich Forest early on Saturday morning (23 August 2025) near the St Helena to Westleton road. Fire brigade responded. www.eadt.co.uk/news/2541578...

26.08.2025 13:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Beach drop-in activities with Dunwich Museum - Wednesday 27 August 12-4pm. Erosion experiments, rock art and more.Find us on the beach - look for the Dunwich Museum sail.

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Medieval Crafts Drop-in Activity at Dunwich Museum,
Wednesday 20th August
12 - 4pm
Make your own ink, write with a quill, and create illuminations.
Join us in the Reading Room for an afternoon of creative and hands on fun!

19.08.2025 18:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A busy opening night for the #Dunwich Museum Art πŸ–ΌοΈ Show in the Reading Room yesterday evening.
The Art Show is on Saturday 2 & Sunday 3 August, 11.30-4.30.

02.08.2025 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Places are still available for this event (free but book via Eventbrite as numbers are limited). A great chance to do some wildlife recording south of the border…

29.07.2025 17:41 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The historical sources I am studying at the moment haven't even been digitised yet, so that's one area that won't be replaced for a while yet.

26.07.2025 22:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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King Charles III England Coast Path in the east of England Find out about Natural England's work to improve coastal access.

King Charles III England Coastal Path - #Suffolk section - with #Dunwich at its halfway point- now has "Spring 2026" as its estimated opening time, according to its Delivery Team. 140 miles, including Southwold-Pakefield, await Sec. of State decision. www.gov.uk/government/p...

24.07.2025 21:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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DUNWICH WILDLIFE SAFARI – No.1 A day for wildlife lovers exploring shingle, marsh & heath at Dunwich - an expert-led 'safari' to discover & record species. 1st of 2 days.

Dunwich Wlidlife Safari, Wednesday, July 30 Β· 10:30am - 4:30pm, #Dunwich Museum. Led by expert naturalists to introduce you to the wealth of local wildlife, discovering and identifying plants and invertebrates of varied habitats. To book: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dunwich-wi...

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Dunwich With a Twist! Folk band The Dunwich Drifters play the #Dunwich Reading Room, Saturday 9 August 2.30-4pm. Suggested donation Β£10, enjoy a glass of elderflower apple or mint with a twist. www.dunwichmuseum.org.uk/events/

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