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 '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.

New for Summer 2009 – ‘Thomas Slappe’s Booke of Physicke’, an edited collection of herbal remedies from the eighteenth century, full of strange and wonderful concoctions.
Also – ‘A Picture History of Margaret Catchpole’, which tells the story of this well-known Suffolk heroine through a collection of pictures painted by Rev. Richard Cobbold over 150 years ago.