Welcome to the new Suffolk Heritage Direct website - The Heritage Gateway to Suffolk’s collections. It brings the county’s past to life in one easily accessible place by drawing together information and images from, Suffolk archives, local studies, museums and archaeology collections. You can:-

1. Search across the whole database, or search the catalogues of individual organisations, with easy browsing of related records
2. See images of historic Suffolk and its people, and of archives and everyday objects
3. Research the county’s archaeology, landscape and local history
4. Learn about the history and identity of your community
5. Find out what life was like for your ancestors
6. Find out about national historical events from a Suffolk perspective
7. Access education and Life-Long Learning resources that enhance and enrich teaching and learning
8. Contact heritage organisations in Suffolk and elsewhere

Over time more partners and content will be made available so please keep coming back to see what has changed.

Coming soon:-

1. Suffolk Regiment Archives including histories, records of various campaigns, honours, decorations and rolls of honour, army lists, photographs, the records of the various battalions, the Home Guard, the Suffolk Regiment and Old Comrades Associations, the regimental Gazette and individual soldiers 1697-2008.
2. The Corder Collection of East Anglian Heraldic Manuscripts comprising pedigrees, grants of arms, visitations, heralds' notebooks and associated material relating mainly to Suffolk but also covering Cambridgeshire, Essex and Norfolk, collected by Miss Joan Corder of Ipswich (1921-2005)
3. Port of Lowestoft Shipping Registers including transaction books recording changes of ownership of ships, registers of sea fishing boats under the Sea Fisheries Act 1868 registers of vessels registered at the Port of Lowestoft. These constitute documents of title to the ships registered giving; dimensions, type, ownership, history and final fate of each vessel 1852-1946.