Local History Books and Talks by Pip Wright

I am a retired Primary School Teacher, living in Stowmarket in Suffolk. I now write local history books and give talks to groups of all kinds and all ages across East Anglia. Together with my late wife Joy, who died in July 2005, I have spent a number of years gathering information on Suffolk social history. My particular passion is the newspapers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Joy and I produced a number of books drawing from old local papers, and I still have hundreds more good stories I intend to publish.

This web-site should enable you to explore the books and talks I have available, but also, to inform you as to what I am working on at the present time.

My two most recent books have been 'Death Recorded' (on the subject of Capital Punishment in Suffolk) and 'I Read it in the Local Rag' (a collection of items from old local newspapers).

My most recent books have been 'I Read it in the Local Rag' (a collection of items from old Suffolk & Norfolk newspapers) and 'Daniel Malden', a biographical novel of an eighteenth century Ipswich criminal. (read more about these books on their own pages)

Recently published, 'Exploring Suffolk by Bus-Pass' demonstrates just how easy it is to tour Suffolk and surrounding counties free of charge, just because you have reached the grand old age of 60. Priced at £5.95, expeditions of all kinds are described here.