Poppyland Publishing - Press Information

Welcome to the Poppyland Publishing Press Information Page.

Cromer-based Poppyland Publishing published its first title in 1976. Since then it has regularly published titles of local interest in East Anglia. We publish books, DVDs, video and prints. If you have a specific enquiry for press purposes, email Peter Stibbons for further information. He can also be contacted on +44 (0)1263 510969 or on mobile 07799127864. Our fax number is 08707052513 and our general web site is www.poppyland.co.uk.

Each section below covers a recent publication. For a full press release as a Word document, click on the right hand column. A front cover and photographs from the book for use in association with features and reviews can also be downloaded from the right hand column.

Roads and Tracks
A new and expanded edition of Norfolk Origins 2
ISBN 9780946148707 RRP £9.95 each

Publication date 11 July 2008.

Much has moved on in historical and archaeolgoical research since the first edition of this title in 1983 and author Bruce Robinson with consultant Edwin Rose bring the story up to date.

Author Bruce Robinson can be contacted on 01263 822132
Publisher Peter Stibbons can be contacted on 01263 510969, mobile 07799 127864

Creative East Awards 2008
Poppyland Publishing wins Best Factual Publication award

Poppyland Publishing are delighted to have won this award at the Creative East awards evening on 20th March. A press release is availabe in the right hand column.

Publisher Peter Stibbons can be contacted on 01263 510969, mobile 07799127864

East Anglia - The Wild Side
Three new DVDs from Poppyland Productions
RRP £12.95 each

DVDs released 2nd November 2007.

The three DVDs - Field and Woodland, River and Broad and Coast and Estuary - take us on a journey through the wealth of reserves and many other locations across the region to get in close to the many creatures with which we share the region.

Executive Producer Peter Stibbons can be contacted on 01263 510969, mobile 07799127864
Director Mike Linley can be contacted on 07885 964790

William Winstanley - The Man who saved Christmas
A new book for Christmas 2007 from Poppyland Publishing
ISBN 9780946148820 RRP £10.95 each

Publication date 2nd November 2007.

The biography of the writer William Winstanley (1628-1698) of Quendon and Saffron Walden, describing all William's own wonderful Yuletide festivities, showing how he singlehandedly revived out Christmas customs after the Restoration.

Author Alison Barnes can be contacted on 01279 814309
Publisher Peter Stibbons can be contacted on 01263 510969, mobile 07799 127864

Grandad's War - The First World War Diary of Horace Reginald Stanley
A new book from Poppyland Publishing
ISBN 9780946148837 RRP £11.95 each

Publication date 3rd December 2007.

The diary - and photographs - of Sergeant Stanley.

The young Horace Stanley had joined the Cambridgeshire Regiment before the First World War. By the time this territorial unit arrived on the western front, he was a sergeant in B company of 6 platoon. He went to war with his military equipment but also with a sharp mind, a notebook and most remarkable of all, a camera amongst his kit.

Author Dr Juliet Brodie can be contacted on 0207 9425910 (day) or 01883 345433 (evenings)
Publisher Peter Stibbons can be contacted on 01263 510969, mobile 07799 127864

The Commercial Life of a Suffolk Town
A new title from Poppyland Publishing
ISBN 978-0-946148-80-6 RRP £14.95

Books published 19th May 2007.

This book is a splendid example of detailed research using historic documents found locally and national records, in particular the maps and census records of the town of Framlingham from 1900. The Commercial Life of a Suffolk Town looks at a particular, self-contained town as the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, but provides a picture of many East Anglian towns at that time.

Publisher Peter Stibbons can be contacted on 01263 510969, mobile 07799127864
Author John Bridges can be contacted on 01787 247626

Millgate - Aylsham
Support and Resources on the Web

The considerable interest in the publication of the new edition of Millgate, a book about that part of the town of Aylsham, has stimulated Poppyland Publishing to press forward with a range of 'Support and Resource' material to accompany the title. This can be access from the 'Support and Resources' button in the left hand column of the Poppyland Publishing web site and then following the links for the Millgate book. An electronic press release and a copy of the graph referred to are available from the right hand column, together with the press release about the book itself.

Publisher Peter Stibbons can be contacted on 01263 510969, mobile 07799127864
Chair of Aylsham Local History Society Geoff Gale can be contacted on 01263 734252