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<?php echo $title; ?> View Details A Level Country by Andrew Hunter Blair
£8.99 ISBN: 1 904136 15 X
Sketches of its Fenland folk and history. A journey through Fenland from its prehistoric origins through its past and present to its uncertain future. A companion volume to the popular Great Ouse Country.
(paperback 102 pages)


<?php echo $title; ?> View Details Arthur Rackham In East Anglia by Alison Barnes
£8.95 ISBN: 0 946148 73 2
Arthur Rackham in East Anglia is the story of how the young illustrator developed his drawing skills working for Jarrold and Sons in the 1890s for their publication Sunrise-Land: Rambles in Eastern England. Later in life he would go on to national and international recognition as a book illustrator, but the story of one of his first assignments in East Anglia has not been told before.

The narrative by Alison Barnes is accompanied by her selection of 40 of his best illustrations, reproduced from early editions of Sunrise-Land. In addition she has tracked down his creative signature in the guest book of Horning Ferry and other local Jarrold titles where his work can be seen.
(paperback 64 pages)


<?php echo $title; ?> View Details Boudica by John Davies and Bruce Robinson
£9.95 ISBN: 978 0946148 87 5
The most readable and up to date story of what we really know of Celtic heroine Boudica. After the death of her husband Prasutagus she would lead a revolt against the invaders that shook the Roman Empire to its core. Colchester, London and St Albans all fell to the Icenian warriors before a final confrontation in the English Midlands restored Roman power.

Myth, invention and mystery surround her life. This fully illustrated book concentrates on just what we do know about the time in which she lived - and how modern archaeology is enabling us to take a considered view of the facts and strip away a little of the fiction that has grown over the years. It will stand as a popular introduction to a lady of great power and influence, much of it beyond her own time, and it looks with enthusiasm towards what archaeology might hope to discover in the future. You can click John Davies and Bruce Robinson to hear the authors introduce the book.
(paperback 96 pages)


<?php echo $title; ?> View Details Boudica To Raedwald East Anglia‘s Relations With Rome by John Fairclough
£29.50 ISBN: 978 0 9539680 3 9
Boudica and Raedwald are two of the dominant characters in the early history of East Anglia. What do we know about them, and about the thread of continuity that links them? How close did Boudica come to driving the Roman army out of Britain in AD61? What influence did four centuries of Roman rule have on Raedwald, whose grave ship at Sutton Hoo contained such a fabulous treasure?

In seeking answers to these questions John Fairclough examines the discoveries of archaeologists over the past hundred years and describes how the hoards of coins and valuable gold and silver treasure unearthed by them and by metal detectorists provide evidence of significant wealth in the region nearly two thousand years ago. What was the origin of that wealth? And what do we know of the people who accumulated that wealth?
(paperback 270 pages)


<?php echo $title; ?> View Details East Anglia - The Wild Side: Coast And Estuary (DVD) by Poppyland Productions with Hairy Frog Productions
£7.95 ISBN: DVD009
Coast and Estuary is the third in the East Anglia - The Wild Side series, with international wild-life cameraman Mike Linley taking us around the coastline and up the estuaries of the region. With our cliffs and mudflats, open beaches and lines of dunes, these specialist environments are home to many creatures.

See the cliffs of north Norfolk from the sea, watch a toad and a grass snake confront each other in the dunes at Winterton, see a mass take-off from the Wash, wander up the Suffolk and Essex estuaries with this enchanting disc. for an introduction in words and pictures to the series, click Mike Linley.
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<?php echo $title; ?> View Details East Anglia - The Wild Side: Field and Woodland (DVD) by Poppyland Productions with Hairy Frog Productions
£7.95 ISBN: DVD 007
International wildlife film-maker Mike Linley presents three wonderful DVDs about the region and its natural history. Field and Woodland takes us to the reserves and the open spaces of the counties of the region to meet an amazing wealth of bird and animal life.

Travel through the highways and byways of the region, the beaches and the waterways, and enjoy the wildlife in the company of a master film-maker.
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<?php echo $title; ?> View Details East Anglia - The Wild Side: River and Broad (DVD) by Poppyland Productions with Hairy Frog Productions
£7.95 ISBN: DVD008
River and Broad is the second in the East Anglia - The Wild Side series, with international wild-life cameraman Mike Linley taking us to the waterways of East Anglia. With our many rivers and the unique Norfolk and Suffolk Broads, the largest such area in Europe, there are many animals and birds to see and enjoy.

A wonderful close-up opportunity to see grass snakes biting their way out of their eggs; the elusive bittern as it seeks to camouflage itself amongst the reeds - and a spectacular variety of other birds and animals of the waterways, broads and ponds. A click on Mike Linley and he\\\'ll introduce you to all three discs in the series.
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<?php echo $title; ?> View Details East Anglia On Film by David Cleveland
£7.95 ISBN: 0 946148 23 6
The Birds of Sheringham An authoritative and detailed study of the birds found in the Sheringham area, including Weybourne, the Runtons and Felbrigg Great Wood, with illustrations by wildlife artist Bryan Bland.
(paperback 76 pages)


<?php echo $title; ?> View Details Great Ouse Country by Andrew Hunter Blair
£8.99 ISBN: 1 904136 07 9
Sketches of its riverside folk and history from souce to mouth. A unique and fascinating picture of the characters and characteristics of the River Great Ouse, reflected through some of the places, events and lives, all of which, in one way or another have this Great River in common.
(paperback 110 pages)


<?php echo $title; ?> View Details I Read It In The Local Rag by Pip Wright
£12.95 ISBN: 0 946148 78 3
A selection from the Suffolk and Norfolk newspapers from 1701 to 1900. From Ipswich to Kings Lynn, Bury St Edmunds to Norwich, Great Yarmouth to Ely, the newspapers of East Anglia are represented in this book through tragic, humorous, heart-warming, inventive, pompous and extraordinary stories.

Author Pip Wright has read hundreds of newspaper, most of them at least 150 years old. Hidden within their pages he has found an archive of remarkable stories - sad, funny, revealing, informative but always entertaining. With him we can dip into the past and see glimpses of life in times gone by.
(paperback 208 pages)


<?php echo $title; ?> View Details Medieval Flushwork Of East Anglia And Its Symbolism by Margaret Talbot
£4.95 ISBN: 0 946148 69 4
Medieval Flushwork of East Anglia is a book which will appeal to anyone with an interest in local history, church architecture and decoration - and will give inspiration to artists of the present day. That‘s just how textile artist Margaret Talbot became engrossed in the subject and set out researching the symbols on medieval churches that she was using for her work.

Many of the little known churches of Suffolk and Norfolk have wonderful flintstone images that decorate their walls, tower buttresses and parapets. The study of this symbolism gives a fascinating glimpse into life in the 15th century, including trades, guilds, merchant‘s marks, pilgrimages, heraldry and the cult of the saints.
(paperback 78 pages)


<?php echo $title; ?> View Details Memoirs Of A Farmer by Peter West
£9.99 ISBN: 978 1 904136 32 3


<?php echo $title; ?> View Details Robber Barons And Fighting Bishops : The Medieval Chronicles of East Anglia by Derek Richings and Roger Rudderhan
£8.99 ISBN: 1 904136 14 1
The middle ages has always been a fascinating period of history, when the great kings reigned over England. But while most people are aware of these monarchs, the events that occurred in East Anglia during this period are not so familiar.

An illustrated account of the Norman influence in East Anglia taken from medieval chronicles.
(paperback 176 pages)


<?php echo $title; ?> View Details Saint With Silver Shoes by Carol Twinch
£8.50 ISBN: 0 952149 93 1
Saint with the Silver Shoes is the follow-up to Carol Twinch’s earlier investigation into the cult and legend of SS Walstan and Blida and carries on where In Search of St Walstan left off.

This latest book not only enlarges and improves the gazetteer for known and associated sites of representations and icons in Suffolk, Essex and Norfolk, but also sets out to delve ever more deeply into the extraordinary story of how the 1658 English Life of St Walstan came to be written.
(paperback 176 pages)


<?php echo $title; ?> View Details The Restoration And Development Of The Bedford Ouse by W B Carter
£7.95 ISBN: 1 904136 25 7
In the 17th century the Bedford Ouse had been made navigable to Bedford by the building of locks and staunches. Barges started to decline with the advent of railways, and the owner of the navigation rights, through various problems, closed the navigation in 1900. In 1933 the Great Ouse Catchment Board was formed, mainly to improve land drainage and restored the river to Tempsford, when the War broke out. After the War, boatyards started to spring up but there was some doubt whether the locks etc. could be maintained as there were no more monies available. In the late ‘70s, the river was opened to Bedford. The book shows photographs of the locks that had fallen into decay and how they are today. Many of the small boatyards which had in early days only a few rowing boats and punts are now marinas, and old photographs illustrate their development.
(paperback 85 pages)


<?php echo $title; ?> View Details There‘s A Story That My Mother Told... by Ruby Lanham
£11.95 ISBN: 978 0 9555947 0 0
This is the true story of Ruby‘s life as told by herself and in her words. Born Ruby Alleston 27 Dec 1905 at Bures on the Essex/Suffolk Border, she tells of her love and continuous involvement with horses through the hard times of the agricultural depression until the time she left home in 1935 to get married. It was a time when she said, “if you did not have anything you were lucky because you did not have the worry of it for as sure as god made little green apples you would loose it. It was a time when you could walk on land from Cambridge to Clacton that nobody would take. A time when it was driving honest to goodness hard working farmers shany and they were being turned out of their homes and committed to the workhouse. We had a dog tied up everywhere.”

There were added hardships of loosing horses, poisoned, gored by the bull or at the hands of the ‘professional’ vet through to successes in the show ring, hunting, point to pointing with Swanee the fast but nappy mare who like Sparks was one of the 2.5 million horses that went to the 1914-18 war and was one of the one in a hundred that came back. To the joyous outcome of buying a lame foal for a maiden bid at Tattersalls Newmarket auction. Set against the continuous conflict with her cantankerous father who having been brought up with a silver spoon in his mouth took to his bed leaving Ruby this extraordinary commitment to save the family and homestead.
(paperback 215 pages)


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