Friends of Wisbech and Fenland Museum.

20/02/2026

08/02/2026

A film about the Elgin Marbles showing locally

18/01/2026

The Marbles a film about the Elgin Marbles is being shown at The Luxe Cinema soon.

05/12/2025

The Gift shop has an extensive range for the season

16/11/2025

Although Wisbech lacks an independent bookshop open six days a week.
Wisbech & Fenland Museum stocks a range of fiction and nonfiction books and other gifts as does Wisbech Eco Hub and Heritage Centre in the Octavia Hill Birthplace House .
Authors include Kevin Rogers, Bill Smith, Diane Calton Smith - Fenland Histories and Mysteries , Andy Ketley , John Gordon and other authors.
Some other books by local writers, such as Marie Tierney, are available from the major book chains eg Waterstones.
Poetry books by local poets are not so easy to obtain.
Short listed entries for the Fenland Poet Laureate have been published by Fenland District Council and some copies have been placed in local libraries.
Stanza also publish books of poems from their Open Microphone events.

15/11/2025

This month's issue of fens magazine features an article on Chauncey Hare Townshend.
The manuscript of Great Expectations he donated to Wisbech & Fenland Museum is currently on an overseas tour.

13/11/2025

This November is the centenary of John Gordon. A former pupil of Wisech Grammar School https://www.facebook.com/share/1B2faPZoEF/ after serving in the RN he became a journalist for a local paper ( Standard and Fenland Citizen?) . An autobiography covers his years in the fens.
Later he moved to Norwich as a journalist before becoming a poet and writer. Best known for his novels The House on the Brink and The Giant under the Snow.
His novels and short stories feature Peckover House and Garden and the Brinks, Wisbech Castle The Museum and the Crescent, the Rose & Crown and the fens.
The Centenary Collection includes short stories set in the museum and town.

A great Christmas gift for readers interested in the town.

Copies of this centenary collection will be available from the Friends of the Museum, Wisbech & Fenland Museum and Wisbech Eco Hub and Heritage Centre in Octavia Hill Birthplace House while stocks last.