Over the past year we have gathered lots of stories and local knowledge with help from East of England residents. We are now inviting you to help us write A People’s Encyclopedia to share with others around the world. These stories have helped us to create 205 symbols which represent our shared experience of life here in the East

Select a symbol below and add your factual or historical entry. Please explore the symbols list and write as many entries as you like!
Ruff Alexanders Flower Syringe Sutton Hoo Helmet Cavalier's Hat Roman Helmet
Cardington Sheds Heart Bomb Binoculars Bee Orchid Flower Roundhead Helmet
Gog Magog Crab Plough Mortarboard Hat Pig Hut Key
Witch-pricker Trawler Net Horseshoe UFO Rollercoaster Smokehouse
Human tooth Sugar Beet Poppy Tent White Horse Seagull
Pasque Flower Pram Cake Black Shuck Pistol Henry VIII
Garden Gnome Sextant Number Six Scarecrow Shells and Bullets Flag
Thomas Wolsey Severed Hand Turkey Rifle Saxon Seaxe Owl
Michael Mary Ley Line Stake Narrowboat Maze Rabbit Viking Helmet
Suffolk Trinity Table Saturn Shipping Container Musket Magnifying Glass
Wooden Bobbins Greyhound Lifeboat Bridge Wolf Pier
Teddy Boy Bread Ham Hock Swallow bird Grave Movie camera
Martello Tower Roman coin Tractor Celtic Cross Anchor Fallen Tree on Caravan
Molly Dancer River Wheel Lighthouse Spider Severed Head
Piazzi Smith Observatory Car Herring Tower at the Garden of Sleep Stiletto Feather
Beach Hut Archer Mushroom Rough Sleeper HMS Ganges Person Hanged
Brass Monkey Bicycle Headphones Paint Can Lorry Rope
Seal Number 23 Wishbone Radio Money The short straw
Cornet Water Wheel Window Dice Wool Bee
Ale Tankard Fig Cat Corn Dolly Bulldog Crane
Upsidedown Chuch Wherry Boat Traveller caravan Sword Badger USA Military Aeroplane
Blackberry Icecream A12 Oak Tree Staircase Whistle
Braided mane or tail Book Mill Stone Dragonfly Snail Speedway
Knife Maggot Wild Deer Oxlip Flower Landguard Fort Rosette
Barn Bats Painter's Brush Trophy LP on vinyl Wisbech Castle
Windmill Peter the Wild Boy Cider Barrel Pin Cushion Hatfield House Handcuffs
Crown Metfield Imp Bone Christianity Sea Thistle Great Storm of 1953
Spade Axe Umbrella Apple Bath Scythe
Elephant Satellite Flock of Birds Talons Compass Wheat
Orford Merman Samosa Race Horse Maypole Helicopter Suitcase
World War 2 Waves Sirapite Train Cannon Borley Rectory World War 1
Sundial Windsock Sizewell Power Station Seamine Bell Snake
Rat Birds Nest Carnix Bed Fence Toy Soldier
Stag Beetle Merlin Falcon Broomstick Slow Worm Hobnail Boot Fireplace
Sparrow Traps