Last year’s Tom Paine Festival gained the East of England Market Towns Environment & Culture Award, previously won for Diss by the 2004 Skelton Festival.

Each category winner was asked to give a presentation. Museum manager Basil Abbott and Diana Courtman acted a scene by Paine and feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft.

The festival had already won Mr. Abbott the Honoured Citizen of Diss award and a Museums & Heritage Award for Excellence.

The museum’s entry has also been nominated for an EDP Pride In Norfolk Award.