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A selection from thirty years of diaries kept by Norfolk author Keith Skipper. His intent is to salute the downright silly, to acknowledge outstanding achievers, to bless those able to brighten the...

Author Keith Skipper looks back on an entertainment marathon of 20 years as he and his colleagues played, sang & spoke to 'congregations' across the county of Norfolk. They raised plenty of laughs &...

Anyone holiday-making in Great Yarmouth in the years immediately following World War Two will have fond memories of the Marina Theatre, an open-air music auditorium in a central position on the...

Towards the end of the 19th century Daily Telegraph theatre critic and travel correspondent Clement Scott visited north Norfolk and used the name 'Poppyland' to write about the area. This title...

George Roberts is one of Norfolk's most fascinating characters. Born in Chedgrave in 1868, the son of a shoemaker, he became the first Labour party Member of Parliament in East Anglia. He rose to...

A show-down between a knight and a clergyman and a challenge to a duel engulfed a Norfolk town in July 1836. Gill Blanchard, a professional genealogist and house historian, both tells an intriguing...

The book tells the true stories of a number of Norfolk women in the first half of the twentieth century, at a time when women were just beginning to achieve equality in politics and in other spheres...

The life story of Pablo Fanque, or William Darby, the first black circus proprietor. His most recent fame is through the words of the Beatles song 'Being for the Benefit of Mr KIte'. Bornn in Norwich...

PHOTOGRAPHS OF WILLIAM RAYSON SMITH VOLUME I : Norfolk and BeyondAuthor: JENNIFER AND DAVID. BOXALLPublisher: Poppyland PublishingPublication Date: Jun 03, 2020Number of Pages: 84 pagesLanguage:...

At a time when there were perhaps three or four parish priests caring for an area, which today may have just one, some Norfolk clergy found they had ample leisure time. How they used this time...

A boy, born in the small town of Fakenham in rural Norfolk, was an unlikely candidate to later hold the position of Surveyor of the Navy, the top shipbuilding post at the Admiralty. He first came to...

The Hanseatic League was a remarkable and unique organisation in medieval Europe. It extended from Novgorod to London, Lubeck to Venice. The Wash havens of Lynn and Boston have the earliest and...

Inns first appeared in the fourteenth century and were intended to provide food and rest for pilgrims. They soon welcomed any traveller needing to find accommodation for himself and his horses. A...

The Norfolk Dialect - 9781909796478Author: Peter TrudgillPublisher: Poppyland PublishingPublication Date: July 13, 2021Number of Pages: 93 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

The Photographs Of William Rayson Smith Volume II: LowestoftAuthor: David ButcherPublisher: Poppyland PublishingPublication Date: Oct 04, 2020Number of Pages: 99 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

The Yellow Caravan: Camping Round Norfolk in 1912 (Norfolk Documents)Author: Juliet WebsterPublisher: Poppyland PublishingPublication Date: October 15, 2019Number of Pages: 153 pagesLanguage:...

In the 1930s Wymondham was self contained and self sufficient - a shopper's paradise. Just over 5,000 people enjoyed a quiet life, the majority employed at the two brush works, in agriculture, on the...