SUFFOLK FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S INSTITUTES.

Suffolk Within Living Memory.

Newbury: Countryside Books, 1994. 185306288X. 1st ed. "This book is a goldmine of information about life in Suffolk in the first half of the century. It stands as a permament record of a past way of life, which can be read and enjoyed by this generation and those to come." Pp.256, outline map + occasional black & white photos & illustrations. Paperback. VG.

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Katalog: East Anglia: : Suffolk

Sonstige Stichworte: Suffolk Federation Women Institues Living Memory Country Life Agricultural 44818 East Anglia: : Suffolk

WRIGHT, PIP & JOY.

The Amazing Story of John Heigham Steggall, 'The Suffolk Gypsy'.

Stowmarket: Pawprint Publishing, 2006. 0954829808. John Heigham Steggall's autobiography was originally published in 1857, telling of his life as a gypsy, a surgeon, a sailor, a soldier, and finally as a parish priest. "For most of his ninety years, he lived in the villages of central Suffolk, but he also visited India and the South Seas as well as Bury Gaol. Just how much can we rely on the truth of his astonishing life-story? In this new edition, two local historians, Pip and Joy Wright have edited down Steggall's original book for today's reader, adding details of their own researches, and including over seventy illustrations." Pp.168, occasional colour and many black & white photos and illustrations, signed by co-author Pip Wright to title page. Paperback. VG.

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Katalog: East Anglia: : Suffolk

Sonstige Stichworte: Pip Wright Signed John Heigham Steggall Suffolk Gipsy Biography East Anglia 50568 East Anglia: : Suffolk

WRIGHT, PIP & JOY.

Grave Reports. Some Dead Funny Items Gathered from Local Suffolk Newspapers 1720-1900.

Stowmarket: Privately published, 2007. Reprint. "As soon as local newspapers began to be published in the early 1700s, death and everything that followed it were recognised as newsworthy. Editors were in no doubt that the British fascination with the grave and its occupants would make entertaining reading". Pp.48, occasional black & white illustrations. Paperback. VG.

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Katalog: East Anglia: : Suffolk

Sonstige Stichworte: Pip Joy Wright Grave Reports Local Suffolk Newspapers Ipswich Journal Framlingham Weekly East Anglian Daily Times Death Reports 45682 East Anglia: : Suffolk

YOUNG, FRANCIS.

Rookwood Family Papers 1606-1761.

Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2016. 9781783270804. 1st edition. "The Rookwoods of Coldham Hall in the parish of Stanningfield, Suffolk, were Roman Catholic recusants whose notoriety rests on Ambrose Rookwood's involvement in the Gunpowder Plot. In 1606 the owner of Coldham was hanged, drawn and quartered for treason for supplying the plotters with horses. A century later another Ambrose Rookwood suffered the same fate for conspiring to assassinate William III.." Pp.lx/117, 6 colour and 6 black & white plates + genealogical table. Green boards, dustwrapper. VG/VG.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Rookwood Family Coldham Hall Stanningfield Suffolk Ambrose Rookwood Gunpowder Plot Treason Catholic Recusants Royalist English CIVIL War Jacobite Elizabeth Catholic Mission Bury St Edmunds 51902 East Anglia: : Suffolk