Alan John Sutton is an English publisher who founded

Tempus Publishing The History Press is a British publishing company specialising in the publication of titles devoted to local and specialist history. It claims to be the United Kingdom's largest independent publisher in this field, publishing approximately 300 ...

, Alan Sutton Publishing, Amberley Publishing, and Fonthill Media.

Career

Sutton was educated at

Dursley Grammar School Dursley is a market town and civil parish in southern Gloucestershire, England, almost equidistant from the cities of Bristol and Gloucester. It is under the northeast flank of Stinchcombe Hill, and about southeast of the River Severn. The t ...

. He published his first book in 1974 and had his first success with ''The Diary of a Cotswold Parson'' (1978) by

Francis Edward Witts Francis Edward Witts (1783–1854) was an English clergyman, diarist, and magistrate who was rector of Upper Slaughter in Gloucestershire. Early life and family Francis Witts was born in 1783. Career Witts was a clergyman, diarist, and magistra ...

(1783–1854). This covers the years 1783–1854 and was edited and introduced by David Verey. Sutton created the

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series and its successor, the

Images of England Images of England is an online photographic record of all the listed buildings in England at the date of February 2002. The archive gives access to over 323,000 colour images, each of which is matched with the item's listed designation architectur ...

series. He also created the ''Images of America'' series, published by

Arcadia Publishing Arcadia Publishing is an American publisher of neighborhood, local, and regional history of the United States in pictorial form.(analysis of the successful ''Images of America'' series). Arcadia Publishing also runs the History Press, which publi ...

in Charleston SC, in which more than 12,000 titles have been published. Sutton founded

in 1993, Alan Sutton Publishing, Amberley Publishing,Alan Sutton returns again.
Catherine Neilan, ''

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'', 17 July 2008. Retrieved 14 August 2016. and Fonthill Media. Sutton was elected a fellow of the

Society of Antiquaries of London A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Societ ...

in 2010.

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Living people 1949 births English publishers (people) 20th-century English businesspeople Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London 21st-century English businesspeople {{Publish-bio-stub

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