Books By Andrew Phillips - Author

ANDREW PHILLIPS is a Fellow of the Department of History at the University of Essex. For many years responsible for training Blue Badge tourist guides for the town, in 1988 he founded the Colchester Recalled Oral History Group and, soon afterwards, became chairman of the Friends of Colchester Museum. He was honorary librarian and a former president of the Essex Society for Archaeology and History. Since 1981 he has contributed a regular local history feature to the Essex County Standard and Gazette and given frequent talks and lectures on local history around Essex. He has written nine previously published books about Colchester, most recently Colchester in the Great War in addition to many articles about Colchester and Essex. With this latest book on Colchester he has brought together over 40 years’ study of the town.