Articles published in category History
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September 2021
Suffolk
A love of ear spoons is just one of the things you'll learn about Vikings from Cat Weldon's 'How to be a Hero' books for young readers. The Suffolk-raised author admits she's indulging her passion for all things Norse.
September 2021
Suffolk
Following the progress of the mighty replica of the Sutton Hoo Anglo-Saxon burial ship being lovingly built across the river at Woodbridge.
August 2021
Suffolk
We owe many of our modern ways to the Anglo-Saxons - they're in our DNA - yet we know so little about what they were really like. Historian Marc Morris will attempt to shed some light on our mysterious ancestors when he comes to Aldeburgh Literary Festival next month.
July 2021
Suffolk
Why do statues have such power to unite and divide us? It's a question writer Bee Rowlatt will be exploring at this year's Primadonna Festival in Stowmarket.
July 2021
Suffolk
In the spirit of inventiveness that created the world's first operational radar station, Bawdsey Radar Trust is developing exciting, innovative ways to tell its story to the world.
June 2021
Suffolk
Felixstowe Book Festival patron Esther Freud's ninth novel imagines what might have happened had her mother's complicated life taken a more sinister path.
February 2021
Suffolk
Author Simon Edge loves imagining history in his own humorous, slightly irreverent, fictional style. Now he's digging up the past on our county's patron saint.
February 2021
Suffolk
The latest titles, awards and news - including children's writers AM Howell and Astra Taylor-Todd and histories of Waldringfield and Ramsholt.
June 2020
Suffolk
If you've discovered the joy of knitting during lockdown, you'll enjoy Esther Rutter's new book 'This Golden Fleece'
May 2020
Suffolk
Dr Rowan Williams' new book coincides with Bury St Edmunds' celebration of the founding of its Benedictine abbey
May 2020
Suffolk
Work by the Bawdsey Radar Trust reveals the huge role women played in securing the nation's wartime defences
March 2020
Suffolk
Bury St Edmunds has big plans to celebrate the millennium of its ancient abbey at the heart of the town's identity.
March 2020
Suffolk
Why did Cassandra Austen burn the letters of her famous sister? Gill Hornby sheds new light on the relationship through her novel 'Miss Austen'
March 2020
Suffolk
Virginia Nicholson explores the decade of her childhood. She talks to Catherine Larner about her book 'How Was it For You?'
February 2020
Suffolk
Author Liz Trenow's new novel brings to life the story of the men and women at Bawdsey Manor who were pivotal to Britain's victory in the second world war