Welcome to Poppyland Publishing - East Anglian Specialists
Whether you're living in Norfolk or Suffolk, Cambridgeshire or Essex, planning a visit, interested in local history, tracking down your family history or love the natural history of East Anglia, we hope we'll have some titles - books and DVDs - to interest you.
You can use your credit or debit card to make direct purchases from the site. In addition to Poppyland's own titles, we have the full range of titles in print from the prestigious Centre of East Anglian Studies. To use the 'Product Search' facility above, you only need to enter one word of interest - you don't, for instance, need to use the whole title of a book.
Try the buttons on the left for the different categories of titles we publish. And explore our 'Support and Resource' pages. These are all free - and always growing.
On the right you'll find short presentations about some of our products. To buy, click on the appropriate button in the left column. Ordering from this site is a First Class Post service direct from the publisher.
A Mundesley Album is a revised edition of Eric Reading's book, first published in 1985. With digitally enhanced historic photographs and modern photographs by Paul Damen, it tells the story of how Mundesley developed into the village that we know today. As with a number of settlements on this section of the north Norfolk coast, it was the coming of the railway that brought a transformation from fishing hamlet to tourist location. From the visit of the poet Cowper in 1798 to post-war development, this title encapsulates the story of Mundesley in words and pictures. Click the Albums page to order your copy.
There is no written record left by Boudica's people. No surviving oral or folk memory has been identified. Nor is there a single discovered artefact which she is known to have handled or location at which her presence can be proved.
And yet she stands firmly at the centre of East Anglian and English history. We need to understand that she did exist and that the bare skeleton of the story of the rebellion, as recorded by later writers, is essentially accurate, even if some of the detail has been spun. Dr John Davies, Chief Curator at Norwich Castle Musaeum and journalist Bruce Robinson tell us the story. Click Boudica - Her Life Times and Legacy to find how to order your copy. You can click hear from the authors to listen to more of the background.
A special DVD made for the people of the village of Overstrand and a model of how a community can use multimedia technology to understand its past and present. Ancient geology, the earliest written records, the evidence of landscape archaeology and the coming of photography all help tell the tale. Add residents' memories and a touch of magic with 3D animation to enjoy a fascinating story.
Author Lucy Care first came into contact with the Paston family through the famous Paston Letters. Now, having settled in the village which bears the Paston name, she brings together history, walks and photographs to tell us of the rise and fall of the family between the 14th and the 17th centuries and where we can see evidence of thier heritage today.
Lucy and her father Jack Earl have always enjoyed walks and the exploration of the byways and footpaths of north Norfolk and further afield was a natural project to undertake. Churches and castles, moated manor houses and marble monuments are all here for further exploration and appreciation. To order your copy click Exploring Paston Country.
Author Mark Nicholls is an award-winning journalist with the Eastern Daily Press. When writing about Nelson for the Trafalgar bicentennial commemoration in 2005, he was inspired to research the stories of many other Norfolkmen who became famous through their time at sea. He looks back to the fighting admirals of north Norfolk - Christopher Myngs, John Narborough and Cloudesley Shovell. He has tracked men who served with the great explorers, such as James Burney and Samuel Cresswell. And from more recent times his twenty-six subjects include legendary lifeboat coxswains Henry Blogg and William Fleming. Click Norfolk Maritime Heroes and Legends to find how to order your copy. You can click Mark Nicholls to hear the author introduce the book.
This nostalgic DVD features townsfolk from Wymondham and district reminiscing about the town in the second half of the 20th century. Growing up in the town before and after the war, schooldays, farming and horses, church and chapel, town and trade, are all featured on the disc.
To read more and to order, click Wymondham - Born and Bred. To take a glimpse at the disc in a short preview, click Personal Recollections from Wymondham.
A brand new edition of Roads and Tracks, much revised and enlarged from the original 1983 edition, telling the story of the roads and tracks of Norfolk from ancient times to the modern day. Whether you're a walker or a car driver, a horse rider or a cyclist, this book will add understanding and enjoyment to your exploration of the county. It includes a fold-out historical map inside the back cover.
With specially commissioned line drawings, a selection of photographs and associated support material on our web site, the book takes us another step forward in understanding and appreciating the county of Norfolk. Click to hear from author Bruce Robinson and on Roads and Tracks to order a copy.
In the 1980s Theo Stibbons found a suitcase of letters sent from his great uncle to his grandfather in the years of the First World War. The letters give an account which still resonates today of a young volunteer signing up with enthusiasm and finding himself enveloped in a maelstrom. Yet he stills maintains his family standards, reporting the mundane, the exciting and the horrific.
This publication of a young Norfolk soldier's story, serving with the 10th Essex, adds another very personal strand to the many accounts available of that time. The letters are interwoven with the formal accounts of the period to give a moving story that goes from recruitment to Norwich, training at Colchester and a final wound in the desperation that was Delville Wood, three weeks into the desperate Battle of the Somme. To order, go to 'Wartime' Series; to hear from the compiler and editor of the letters, click Introduction to Dear Hal...Yours Pud.
William Winstanley - The Man who saved Christmas is the remarkable story of an East Anglian who defied the puritanical regime of Oliver Cromwell and kept the spirit of Christmas alive. As a farmer, historian and thankfully as a writer, he recorded the wonderful Yuletide festivities at his Essex farm. Through this account of his life and writings about Christmas, we can see that he truly was the man who kept alive and restored the Christmas traditions we know today.
If you'd like us to get this title in the post to you as quickly as possible, or need some more information, click 'Miscellaneous titles'.
International wildlife film-maker Mike Linley comes back home to present three wonderful DVDs about the region's wild life, with the generic names East Anglia - The Wild Side
Travel through the highways and byways of the region, the beaches and the waterways, and enjoy the wildlife in the company of a master filmmaker. Each disc takes a different environment; here we concentrate on the woods and fields of the counties on the disc Field and Woodland.
Click 'DVDs and Videos' for more information and our ordering pages. A click on Mike Linley and he'll tell you about some of the creatures featured in the series.
