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.

Amongst my most recent books have been 'Lucky is the Name' the story of a Suffolk farming family (£12.95) and 'A Short History of the Village of Cotton' (£7.95), published in 2012 to commemorate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

As I am no longer selling the collection of six volumes: 'Newspapers in Suffolk', they can now be enjoyed by anyone wishing to visit this website. The full text of all six books, complete with hundreds of wonderful old newpaper items from 1720 - 1914 can be found here on the 'Newspapers in Suffolk' page.

A large collection of historical gleanings will be completed this winter and will probably be published in 2013 under the title 'Frolic, fervour and fornication'.