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February 2022
This England
Detecting enemy aircraft was an essential part of the war effort. Catherine Larner explores Bawdsey radar station, where it all began.
October 2021
Suffolk
Ghostly figures, strange messages, dark secrets, disappearing keys and the impending arrival of Halleys Comet...it's all within the gripping tales of award-winning historical fiction writer, AM Howell.
September 2021
British Rowing Plus
British Rowing Coach Educator Jacq Barnard is project managing a very special boat build in Suffolk. Catherine Larner finds out more.
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.

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