Diana Bickerton is a retired Chartered Librarian, a garden designer and a local historian. She is Local History Recorder for Shottisham parish and has written two books about the village. She has lived in East Suffolk for many years and writes a weekly bulletin for some 50 family and friends, on her activities and thoughts, both politically and culturally.
She is an avid supporter of the Open University, having gained her degrees with them as a mature student.