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.
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Forgotten Yarmouth Entertainments

Through Charles Marsh, the itinerant beach entertainer, who fell from the Naval Pillar, to John Thurton, the brilliant local ventriloquist and mimic from Woodbridge, the author provides an insight into the changing nature of entertainment as the holiday industry grew. While many represented in this book are now forgotten, some are perhaps more well known, such as Charles S. Stratton (Tom Thumb) and Jem Mace, the first heavyweight champion of the world. All can be found in this fascinating and accessible book.
Great Yarmouth: A Sand in the Sea

early 21st century, servicing the oil and gas and renewable energy industries.
It is the first of our publications to enable readers to access augmented reality technology through the use of their smart phone or tablet bringing the printed image literally to life on the page.
Lowestoft: Britain's Most Easterly Town

This short history in our Town and Village series looks at key aspects in the growth of the community, the town’s move to the cliff top in the 14th century, its gains and losses in the 19th and 20th centuries and its re-branding today as the renewable energy capital of the United Kingdom.
The Yarmouth Bodysnatchers

The first of our new pamphlet series, looking at individual aspects of East Anglian history, explores this grizzly event in Yarmouth’s past.
Echoes of History: Poppyland 1883-1914

Echoes if History makes a valuable addition to those accounts by taking us deeper into the story of the characters and families of the time, those who already resided on the coast and those who came as a result of Scott's writings.
It was a remarkable time as actors and writers, royalty and members of parliament, decided they need to find out about this unexplored part of the coast. Overstrand resident David Thornton has read himself back into the closing years of the Victorian period and into the Edwardian era. His account will add greatly to the enjoyment and appreciation of north Norfolk for those who live there and those who visit.
More Norfolk Churches from the Air

Pauline Young's commentary does not attempt to provide a comprehensive story of each of the buildings but it does point to features that interest her and to those reference books which will satisfy a wider inquisitiveness. Though she doesn not hold back when it comes to expressing a personal view in some instances!
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A Cromer Miscellany

Not a full time photographer - he had a hotel to run - Philip Vicary kept a record through the century of the district and the changes taking place. In this album his son Adrian adds pictures of his own, to present us with a new selection of Cromer in times past. With both black and white and colour images, we can recall some of the famliar scenes - and some of the less evocative, that have now gone. You'll know some of the pictures but perhpas not the background to their taking which Adrian now provides; other pictures are published for the first time. An essential for the north Norfolk book collector.
Maritime Suffolk

Along the way he outlines the leading role of the county in emigration to the New World, the events and significance of the Dutch wars, the shipbuilding industry, the fishing industry and Suffolk's part in the saving of life at sea. Lowestoft, Southwold, Felixstowe and Harwich, Aldeburgh and of course Ipswich are just some of the towns featured in this comprehensive and important book. Obtain from your local bookshop or online by clicking on the shopping basket below.
Women in the Archaeology & History of West Norfolk

Women in the Archaeology & History of West Norfolk is a collection of the presentations made at that conference, giving all a chance to share in the research and the presentations of the day. With brief biographies of all the speakers and a short history of the Society, it serves as both a record of the day and an introduction to many areas of further interest.
