The Blakeney Area Historical Society (BAHS) is set to kick off its 2024/25 season with a talk by Norfolk-born naturalist Nick Acheson.

Mr Acheson, an ambassador for the Norfolk Wildlife Trust and grandson of a Blakeney doctor, will share his experiences from the Covid lockdowns, during which he observed Arctic geese overwintering in the county.

Over seven months, he cycled 1,200 miles around Norfolk on his mother’s 42-year-old bicycle, watching brent and pink-footed geese and documenting his observations in a diary.

His experiences culminated in a book, The Meaning of Geese: A Thousand Miles in Search of Home, which was named the 2023 Book of the Year at the East Anglian Book Awards.

For the BAHS event, Mr Acheson will present a talk titled, The Meaning of Geese – a Thousand Miles Around North Norfolk on a Creaking Bicycle.

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The BAHS programme, organised by committee member and local historian Jonathan Hooton, will continue with a talk about German Prisoners of War in Norfolk by Brendan Chester-Cadwell on October 22.

BAHS meetings typically take place on the last Tuesday of the month at Cley Village Hall at 2.30pm, but the October meeting will be on the penultimate Tuesday.

Membership is £12 a year for an individual and if you join now, your membership runs until the end of August 2025.

For more information, visit bahs.uk.