Events Calendar
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Town Planning in Lincoln, 1920-39: a tool for social engineering
Presented by Rob Wheeler
Town planning between the wars was based on the idea that there should be a formally agreed map, defining precisely what uses were permitted and what uses forbidden. That was the idea; but in practice agreeing a map proved exceedingly difficult.
Underlying it all was the idea of the Garden Suburb. This was treated - in Lincoln, at least - as the only acceptable form of housing. The transformation of Lincoln's urban population into suburban respectability was assisted at all stages by town planning, even if that goal had never been formally articulated.
Admission £4.00. SLHA Members £3.00
Wednesday 08 January, 2025
7.30pm
St Hugh's Hall, Monks Rd, Lincoln
Medieval Brick Buildings
By Zoom
Presented by Dr James Wright FSA, Triskele Heritage
During the late mediaeval period England witnessed the innovative introduction of brick as a high-status building material. Used almost exclusively by elite patrons, much inspiration was gathered from brick buildings in mainland Europe. These architectural ideas were driven by widespread networks connected to itinerant brickmakers, the Teutonic Order and, especially, the Hanseatic League. On encountering these radical new ideas in building from the German, Dutch and Baltic states, English architecture was never quite the same again …… This talk will include some examples of brick buildings in Lincolnshire.
Admission by Donation
Monday 13 January, 2025
7.30pm
By Zoom
Sunday Special
- Discovery of New Hall at Lincoln Castle, Chris Casswell
- Lincolnshire Watermills, Jon Sass
- Flora Murray Presentation
Admission £4.00. SLHA and LRS Members £3.00 – Pay on the door with cash
Sunday 19 January, 2025
2.30pm - 4.30pm
The Old School, Mill Hill, Nettleham LN2 2PE
Craft: Victorian Valentines *** CANCELLED***
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A papercraft workshop inspired by the Victorian period. Discover how Valentines Day was celebrated in the 19th century. Using imagery and examples from the Victorian period as inspiration, and using a variety of resources, enjoy creating greeting cards, a decoupaged ornament and decorate your own unique decorative container for a small gift.
Led by Kathy Holland
Please note: the room where this event will take place is on the 1st floor accessible only by stairs.
Admission £8.50 SLHA & LRS members £7.50. Admission includes materials, and tea and coffee.
Wednesday 29 January, 2025
10.00am - 1.00pm
Jews' Court, 2-3 Steep Hill, Lincoln LN2 1LS
The Sieges of Crowland during the English Civil War: Myths and Realities
Evening Talk by Zoom
Presented by Dr Jon Fitzgibbons
The fenland town of Crowland and its medieval abbey saw several sieges during the
English Civil Wars of the 1640s. This talk will explain why Crowland assumed such an important role during the conflict, the ways in which the wars deepened local rivalries in South Lincolnshire, and how a rising cavalry officer by the name of Oliver Cromwell made his name during one of the sieges of the town. The talk will also explore the impact of the wars on Crowland, not least through the rich myths and folklore that persist into the present day.
Admission by Donation
Wednesday 29 January, 2025
7.30pm
Digging Lincoln *** SOLD OUT ***
| Presented by Dr Michael J Jones *** SOLD OUT *** Mick Jones will discuss why he decided to write this memoir, how he went about it and which sources he relied on. Digging Lincoln is his own personal account of how a record of the City of Lincoln's rich archaeology was recovered from the time of the early antiquaries through to the commercially funded professional teams of today. Drawing on his new publication, Digging Lincoln the author will recount his background and initiation into archaeology and describe how the archaeological team for the city of Lincoln operated over the next few decades. He will describe this exhilarating time, full of important archaeological discoveries, and demonstrate how appreciation of the importance of Lincoln’s archaeological story and its public presentation have grown remarkably, such that it has now become a major heritage destination. Admission £4.00 (SLHA Members £3.00) |
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Thursday 30 January, 2025
2.00pm
Lincoln Central Library, Free School Lane, Lincoln LN1 1EZ
Download booking form: 2025DiggingLincolnBkgForm.pdf
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Exploring Lincolnshire's Gilbert Country',
c.1910-1927: The Writings of Bernard Samuel Gilbert
Presented by Prof. Andrew Jackson
Bernard Samuel Gilbert was an outstanding author whose name is all but forgotten today. Gilbert was born in Billinghay in Lincolnshire in 1882 and was returned there for burial following his death in 1927. He wrote prolifically from around the age of thirty up until his death in 1945. Gilbert’s literature spans poetry, novels, plays, agriculture, political pamphlets and newspaper columns. He wrote of contemporary Lincolnshire and rural England, life and work on the land and country customs and beliefs.
The History of Lincolnshire Committee (part of the Society of Lincolnshire History and Archaeology) has recently published a book, ‘Rural England Through War and Peace: The Literary Work of Lincolnshire’s Bernard Samuel Gilbert, 1882-1927’ by Andrew J. H. Jackson, Professor of Local, Regional and Landscape History at Bishop Grosseteste University in Lincoln. Copies of the book will be on sale after the talk.
Admission £4.00 (SLHA members £3.00)
Saturday 08 February, 2025
2.00pm
The Hub, Navigation Wharf, Carre St, Sleaford NG34 7TW
Louth Museum: Past, Present & Future
By Zoom
The story of Louth’s local independent museum, from late Victorian origins to a modern attraction with, ‘always something new to notice’, and a sneak preview of the museum’s major new offerings as we drop in on the volunteers’ busy preparations for the 2025 season. When visiting our ‘history Tardis’, you will discover many Lincolnshire gems and stories; a unique panoramic view of Victorian Louth, rocks and fossils of the Lincolnshire Wolds, Anglo-Saxon cremation urns, an abbot’s stone coffin from the Cistercian Louth Park Abbey, Thomas Wilkinson Wallis’ intricate carvings, the story of Louth’s tragic 1920 Flood and much more.
Presented by Dr Julie E Bounford
Wednesday 12 February, 2025
7.30pm
By Zoom
Dunham Bridge – Then and Now
Presented by Stephen Betteridge, Chairman of the SLHA Industrial Archaeology Team
Lincolnshire is in effect a peninsula, attached to the mainland on the south but separated from it on the west by the Trent. This separation is, in part, reduced by the bridge which carries the A57 over the River Trent between the villages of Newton and Dunham on Trent. This important and historic crossing, which is a toll bridge, is owned and operated by the Dunham Bridge Company. Why was the bridge built at this location? When was it built and why? Who built it? An instant success…… or not? The modern term "Value Engineering” is often used when referring to the scrutiny of designs when seeking economies. Did this apply to Dunham Bridge?
This talk will explore the history of the bridge and include elements of its current operation including what do the words "The A57 is closed because Dunham Bridge is flooded” really mean?
Admission £4.00 (LRS and SLHA members £3.00)
Book in advance through Eventbrite or by cash on the door
Wednesday 19 February, 2025
7.30pm
St Hugh's Hall, Monks Road, Lincoln LN2 5AQ
Craft: Roman Designs
Craft activities inspired by imagery and artefacts from the Roman period including examples from Lincolnshire. Activities will include painting a mini fresco, modelling a brooch design and papercraft activities inspired by Roman designs. Please note: the room where this event is held is on the first floor accessible only by stairs. Admission £8.50 SLHA & LRS members £7.50. Admission includes materials, and tea and coffee. |
Drawing of a Roman mosaic from Horkstow, Lincolnshire Courtesy of the British Library. MAPS.K.Top.19.44a |
Wednesday 26 February, 2025
10.00am - 1.00pm
Jews' Court, Steep Hill, Lincoln LN2 1LS
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SLHA Members Store Tour at the Museum of Lincolnshire Life *** SOLD OUT ***
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| Sara Basquill, Collections Development Officer, will introduce the Museum collections and offer the opportunity to investigate a selection of rarely seen and intriguing objects in the Museum Store . Your visit will include the opportunity to explore the Museum independently and enjoy the variety of local history treasures on display. |  |
Tuesday 11 March, 2025
10.30am - 12.30pm
Museum of Lincolnshire Life, Burton Road, Lincoln, LN1 3LY
Sunday Special
- Robeys of Lincoln, Adam Cartwright
- Haw Hill, Dr Martin Huggon
- Lincoln Timeshifts, John Bennett
Admission £4.00. SLHA and LRS Members £3.00 – Pay on the door with cash
Sunday 16 March, 2025
2.30pm - 4.00pm
The Old School, Nettleham, LN2 2PE
Lincoln's Bargate
Presented by Leigh Brocklehurst
Admission £4.00 (LRS and SLHA members £3.00)
Wednesday 19 March, 2025
7.30pm
St Hugh's Hall, Monks Rd, Lincoln LN2 5AQ
Dogdyke Pumping Station:
Preserving a part of Lincolnshire’s Land Drainage History
Evening Talk by Zoom - Presented by Chris Page
| This presentation explores the story of preserving the engines at the Dogdyke Pumping Station, south of Tattershall Bridge. The speaker will show how the unique 1856 steam engine managed to survive the scrap man and explain the efforts of the landowner, John Porter, to bring together an enthusiastic team of volunteers who brought it back to life. Also, we will look at the Ruston oil engine and how that is maintained. The presentation ends by looking at the current work taking place and the challenges that lie ahead |  |
Admission by Donation
Wednesday 26 March, 2025
7.30pm
Evening Talk by Zoom
CRAFT: Diorama and 'pop-up' Lincoln Imp card!
Discover some interesting facts about the history of dioramas and have fun using card and craft materials to create your own unique mini-diorama and/or 3D pop-up card inspired by imagery of historic Lincolnshire.
Led by Kathy Holland
Please note: the room where this event is held is on the first floor accessible only by stairs.
Admission £8.50 SLHA & LRS members £7.50. Admission includes materials, and tea and coffee.
Wednesday 26 March, 2025
10.00am - 1.00pm
Jews' Court, Steep Hill, Lincoln LN2 1LS
Music in the Luttrell Psalter *** SOLD OUT ***
Presented by Kate Witney *** SOLD OUT *** The images of the Luttrell Psalter are some of the most lively and best known depictions of mediaeval rural life. In amongst them are pictures of music-making and instruments. Kate will look at these in detail and sing songs of the period. In addition, she will look at the plainchant of the final section of the Psalter, The Office of the Dead. The talk will end with a showing of Crow's Eye Production's short film The Luttrell Psalter. Admission £4.00 SLHA and LRS members £3.00 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/music-in-the-luttrell-psalter-tickets-1120202207959 |
Image from the Luttrell Psalter. Courtesy of the British Library. 42130. |
Thursday 27 March, 2025
2.00pm
Lincoln Central Library, Free School Lane, Lincoln LN1 1EZ
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Visit to Churches at Wellingore, Welbourn and Temple Bruer *** SOLD OUT ***
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Led by Nick and Eva Moore
This event will include guided visits to All Saints Church at Wellingore, St Chad’s Church at Welbourn and St John’s Church and the Preceptory at Temple Bruer. Further details about the event are on the website.
Admission £14.00. SLHA and LRS members £12.50.
Tuesday 08 April, 2025
10.30am
Meet at All Saints Church, Wellingore LN5 0HU
Download booking form: 2025WellingoreChurches.pdf
Torrington's Tour of Lincolnshire 1791
Presented by Brian Davey
In the summer of 1791, the future Viscount Torrington toured Lincolnshire with his nightcap in one pocket and a bottle of white brandy in the other. He was hampered by Ranger, his ‘indescribably stupid’ dog, admitted that too much port had made him ‘a little muddled’ when he visited Lincoln cathedral, and only just endured his night in Cleethorpes; but every night he wrote up his journal, which survives (complete with port stains) in Lincoln Reference Library. This illustrated talk follows him and uses his words discover the people and places of eighteenth-century Lincolnshire that he met along his, usually irritable, way.
Admission £4.00 SLHA and LRS members £3.00
Wednesday 09 April, 2025
7.30pm
St Hugh's Hall, Monks Rd, Lincoln LN2 5AQ
Aspects of Louth and Locality
Welcome Louth Navigation, by Stephen Betteridge, Louth Navigation Trust William Brown’s Louth Panorama By Richard Lance Keeble, Louth Museum Guided Visit to St James’ Church The History of the Railway in Louth and new developments By members of the Lincolnshire Wolds Railway Streets of Louth Details TBC Tennyson and Louth by Kate Witney |  |
Admission £32.00 including lunch. £25.00 for SLHA members
Saturday 12 April, 2025
9.45am - 4.30pm
Louth Methodist Church, 12 Nichol Hill, Louth LN11 9NQ
Download booking form: AspectsofLouth.pdf
Digging Lincoln
Presented by Dr Michael J Jones
Mick Jones will discuss why he decided to write this memoir, how he went about it and which sources he relied on. Digging Lincoln is his own personal account of how a record of the City of Lincoln's rich archaeology was recovered from the time of the early antiquaries through to the commercially funded professional teams of today.
Drawing on his new publication, Digging Lincoln the author will recount his background and initiation into archaeology and describe how the archaeological team for the city of Lincoln operated over the next few decades. He will describe this exhilarating time, full of important archaeological discoveries, and demonstrate how appreciation of the importance of Lincoln’s archaeological story and its public presentation have grown remarkably, such that it has now become a major heritage destination.
Admission £4.00 SLHA and LRS members £3.00
Thursday 24 April, 2025
2.00pm
Lincoln Central Library, Free School Lane, Lincoln LN1 1EZ
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Investigating Medieval Churches:
Exploring Myths and Folklore in Lincolnshire Churches
Presented by James Wright FSA, Triskele Heritage
Mediaeval parish churches are some of the oldest and most loved buildings in the British Isles. However, relatively few of them have been archaeologically surveyed and many unverified stories have grown up around them. This talk will look at some of the commonly repeated tales about the architecture of churches, which are widely assumed to be true, but which ultimately fall into the realm of folklore and myth.
These stories include doorways apparently blocked to keep the Devil out and windows said to allow lepers to watch the mass. These are tales repeated in good faith but are not based in the lived reality of the mediaeval world. Instead, we will look at the how churches were used before the Reformation. By applying contextual archaeological and historical evidence the architectural functions of churches will be investigated and unlocked.
The speaker, James Wright (Triskele Heritage), is an award winning buildings archaeologist. He has two decades professional experience of ferreting around in people’s cellars, hunting through their attics and digging up their gardens. He hopes to find meaningful truths about how ordinary and extraordinary folk lived their lives in the mediaeval period. He is the author of the popular Mediaeval Mythbusting Blog and his book Historic Building Mythbusting is now on sale.
Admission £3.00. Book through Eventbrite
Friday 02 May, 2025
2.00pm
Learning in Lincoln: A History of the City’s Education Buildings
Introduced by Dr Andrew Walker
This engaging and well-illustrated afternoon presentation will include a series of short talks by different speakers based on chapters in a new book ‘Learning in Lincoln: A History of the City’s education buildings’, recently published by the Survey of Lincoln. The talks will examine a wide range of the school buildings planned and built from the Victorian period to the end of the twentieth century. Schools familiar to children who were educated in the city in the twentieth century will be highlighted. In addition to exploring the city’s school buildings, speakers will explore how the city provided for learners beyond school age from the nineteenth century onwards. Copies of the book will be available for sale at the event. This event is organised by the SLHA in conjunction with The Survey of Lincoln and Lincoln Central Library. Everyone welcome - we look forward to welcoming you.
Admission £3.00. Please book through Eventbrite
Saturday 03 May, 2025
2.00pm
Lincoln Central Library, Free School Lane, Lincoln LN1 1EZ
Lincolnshire Papermaking and Paper Mills 1600-1900
The Chinese first developed papermaking in about AD100 but the process did not reach Europe until the twelfth century and the first paper mill in England is not recorded until 1495. The development of printing stimulated the demand for paper and by 1700 there were 100 paper mills in England. In Lincolnshire, there were paper mills at Tealby, Leasingham, Louth, Grantham (Houghton), Barrow on Humber and West Deeping. The main requirement was a river with enough energy to power a water mill to pulp the rags that were the papermaker’s raw material.
The papermaking industry in Lincolnshire lasted for about 200 years but by 1830 competition from mechanised paper mills overwhelmed the local producers. Today, the remains of their mills and drying sheds have virtually disappeared without trace.
The speaker will outline the processes involved in traditional papermaking and refer to a selection of the known sites and the families of the papermakers in Lincolnshire. Hugh has written a book on Lincolnshire Papermaking and Paper Mills which brings together a collection of evidence including site plans, photographs, watermarks and documents that have not previously been published. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.
Presented by Hugh Nott
Admission £4.00. SLHA & LRS Members £3.00. Pay cash on the door or book through Eventbrite
Wednesday 14 May, 2025
7.30pm
St Hugh'S Hall, Monks Road, Lincoln LN2 5AQ
Brigg Heritage Centre and Guided Walk *** CANCELLED***
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Led by Glyn Alexander and Paul Johnson
Meet at Brigg Heritage Centre for coffee and introductory talk. This will be followed by a guided visit exploring the highlights of the Heritage Centre which hosts the famous Bronze Age raft excavated from the River Ancholme. The Centre charts the development of Brigg and the Ancholme Valley through the centuries with its fascinating history and archaeology through to the present day. The visit will include time to peruse the variety of interesting displays at leisure. Following a break for lunch at one of the many cafes in Brigg, the group will re-convene at the Centre for a guided walk around the intriguing highlights of the historic centre of Brigg with many interesting buildings and intriguing stories. The SLHA Jubilee exhibition will be on show alongside a thought-proking community exhibition organized by Brigg Heritage Centre called ‘Curious Cases’ which is well worth a visit.
Admission £8.50. (SLHA members £7.50) includes coffee, guided walk and donation to the Heritage Centre.
Thursday 15 May, 2025
10.30am â?? 2.30pm
Brigg Heritage Centre, The Angel, Brigg DN20 8LD
Music, Stories and Songs of North Lincolnshire
Presented by members of FolkLincs
A light-hearted and entertaining afternoon of discovering and enjoying the history, folklore, music, stories and songs of North Lincolnshire.
Admission £9.00. SLHA Members £8.00.
Saturday 17 May, 2025
2.00pm
The Buttercross, Market Place, Brigg DN20 8ER
A Pictorial Tour of Bygone Lincoln
Presented by Chris Hewis
Victorian and Edwardian photographers recorded everything from Royal Visits to everyday events in the City of Lincoln. Using photographs from Saxilby History Group’s 'John Wilson Collection', see how much the City has changed in 100 years.
Admission £3.00. Please book through Eventbrite
Wednesday 21 May, 2025
2.00pm
Lincoln Central Library, Free School Lane, Lincoln LN1 1EZ
Richard Bernard: the other man from Epworth
By Zoom
Presented by Adrian Gray
Richard Bernard was born in Tudor Epworth and became a great figure amongst the puritans and separatists under James I based mainly at Gainsborough and Worksop. Later he became a great writer, influenced John Bunyan and his daughter helped found a state in America. Today he is best-known for his authoritative guide on witches. He enjoyed a long life full of controversy and conflict, leaving a legacy of many influential books.
Admission by Donation
Wednesday 28 May, 2025
7.30pm
By Zoom
Explorers and Innovators
Talks will include:
Welcome by Mark Acton, Chair of the Local History Team
George Bass: Eighteenth century Explorer by Penny Herdman
Sir Joseph Banks: Agrarian to Industrialist by Paul Scott
Arthur Storer - America's First Colonial Astronomer by Ruth Crook
Anne Hutchinson and Her Lincolnshire Friends: by Adrian Gray
Richard Hill - Abolitionist & Naturalist by Professor Heather Hughes
Lincolnshire Explorers and Innovators in Stories, Music by Tom Lane, Nigel Creasey and Terri Clarke
Admission £32.00 including lunch. £25.00 for SLHA members
Saturday 31 May, 2025
10.00am - 4.30pm
Walton Academy, Harlaxton Rd, Grantham NG31 7JR
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Visit to Churches at Colsterworth, North & South Witham and Buckminster
Led by John Manterfield.
This event will include guided visits to the above churches and the Dysart Mausoleum in the south-western part of Lincolnshire and just over the border into Leicestershire.
Admission £18.00 for SLHA members and £20.00 for non-members.
Pre-booking essential by form or Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/church-visits-to-colsterworth-north-south-witham-and-buckminster-tickets-1298610842989
Thursday 05 June, 2025
10.30am – 3.45pm
Meet at The White Lion, Colsterworth Grantham NG31 5NE
Prehistoric Lincolnshire: Archaeology and Landscape
Presented by Dr Peter Chowne, MBA FSA
Lincolnshire barely features in accounts of the prehistory of the British Isles or, if it does, only well-known sites excavated and published many years ago are mentioned. A variety of factors might explain this omission. There is, perhaps, less of a legacy of intensive antiquarian and earlier 20th-century activity, and the perception that any prehistoric remains in the fenland are inaccessible beneath metres of sediments.
Lincolnshire has seen less development than many other parts of England, and thus the opportunity for archaeological research has been more limited. Nonetheless, in the 50 years since Jeffrey May completed his book Prehistoric Lincolnshire, several important prehistoric sites have been excavated, and extensive field surveys have been carried out.
However, no overview of Lincolnshire prehistory has been published. In my book which is nearing completion, I have reviewed the evidence from excavations and surveys, much of it unpublished, to form an overview of the landscape and environment in which prehistoric communities lived. For this presentation I have selected the most significant developments in our understanding of Lincolnshire prehistory which demonstrate that the landscape between the Humber and the Welland was not a cultural backwater and is full of research opportunities for future generations of archaeologists.
Admission £4.00 SLHA members £3.00
Wednesday 18 June, 2025
7.30pm
St Hugh's Hall, Monks Rd, Lincoln LN2 5AQ
The Making of the Lincolnshire Landscape
This interdisciplinary conference aims to explore the diversity of Lincolnshire’s landscape and to examine the changing ways over time in which it carries the imprint of its human inhabitants.
Partly inspired by W.G. Hoskins’ ground-breaking The Making of the English Landscape, published 70 years ago, in 1955, the conference allows aspects of the SLHA’s interests across a variety of subject areas to be showcased – including archaeology, local history, industrial archaeology, and the recording of vernacular buildings.
We look forward to welcoming you
9.30-10.00: Registration and coffee
Talks will include:
Lincolnshire’s watery landscapes
The lost creeks of the coastal marshes and their ports. By Caitlin Green
Losers may speak, and this is Truth without Scandalum Magnatum: the struggle against noble power and privilege to drain the Lindsey Level By Thomas Brown-Warr
Fenland, drainage and enclosure in the Boston district’ By Neil Wright
Improving’ Lincolnshire’s rural landscapes
Aristocratic landscapes in Lincolnshire By Charles Rawding
Loan capital for landlord improvements on Lincolnshire estates in the second half of the nineteenth century By Shirley Brook,
The tools that make the English landscape By Kate Genever with Paul Genever
The medieval Lincolnshire townscape
The Lincolnshire township – the building block for the high medieval landscape By Mark Gardiner,
Dwelling in Lincolnshire landscapes – buildings and their dwellingscapes By Jenne Pape
Recording and planning evolving Lincolnshire townscapes
The towns of Lincolnshire: a recent survey By Ian George
Exploring an evolving streetscape: the case of Gainsborough By Abigail Buckland,
Town planning and the creation of suburbia By Rob Wheeler
4.30pm: Closing comments
Booking form attached. Otherwise if you wish to pay by card, please use the Eventbrite link.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-of-the-lincolnshire-landscape-tickets-1300388951359
Saturday 21 June, 2025
10.00am - 4.30pm
Elliot Room, Bishop Grossetestse University, Longdales Rd, Lincoln LN1 3DY
Download booking form: 2025LincolnshireLandscapes.pdf
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The Brackenbury Lecture - A Weakness for Tennyson:
The Poet Laureate in the Writings of British Women Writers
Presented by Prof. Claudia Capancioni, Dott.
The works and life of Alfred Lord Tennyson have a central role in facilitating a multidimensional appreciation of the Victorian age. Holding the position of Poet Laureate from 1850 to his death in 1892, he marked historical moments of Queen Victorian’s reign and aimed to capture human emotions, thoughts, and feelings of his contemporaries with a sensitive awareness of the unlimited spectrums and endless depths of being human. Tennyson’s poems express his unwavering faith in the value of poetry as a means of knowing and understanding that reaches many and diverse audiences across time and space. This year’s Brackenbury lecture explores Tennyson’s legacy in the prose and poetry of British women writers from the twentieth century to the present. Inspired by Miss Marple’s words in Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Cracked from Side to Side (1962), Professor Capancioni invites you to discover the weakness for Tennyson of Virginia Woolf, Christie, Iris Murdoch, Carol Ann Duffy and Alice Oswald.
No need to book – Retiring Collection
Saturday 12 July, 2025
3.00pm
Raithby Chapel, Raithby Hall, Raithby, Spilsby PE23 4DW
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Churches Visit to Donington and Kirton-in-Holland
Led by Blue Badge Guide Jean Howard and Local Experts
This event, organised by the Society for Lincolnshire History & Archaeology (SLHA)will include guided visits to St Mary and the Holy Rood church, Donington and St Peter and St Paul church, Kirton-in-Holland, both large and architecturally interesting buildings; a talk on the life of Matthew Flinders and the story of the Bring Him Home Campaign; plus a guided tour of Donington village.
Meet at Donington Church Hall PE11 4UA at 10.30am for tea and coffee and where toilets are available. Parking is plentiful in the adjacent Co-op car park or along the roadside. The group will assemble in the Church where Jane Pearson, Chair of the Bring Him Home campaign will outline Flinders’ life and explain about the operation and outcome of the village’s determination to recover his remains for the place of his birth.
Jean Howard will then guide the church which has numerous interesting memorials, tablets, ledgers and windows. Attendees will have the opportunity to view an exhibition about Flinders’ achievements.
Please bring a picnic lunch which can be eaten using seating in the churchyard or church.
After lunch Jean Howard will lead a guided walk around the attractive village of Donington pointing out Flinders’ statue and school, listed buildings and businesses past and present. (Public toilets in Market Place)
At about 2.30 the group will depart for Kirton-in-Holland. Parking is available in the Town Hall car park PE20 1LD. Jean will point out buildings of interest on the short walk to the church. Here we will be met by Fay Baillie, churchwarden, and be offered tea and biscuits (toilet in church)
followed by a guided tour of the building. We will be ready to leave at 4.30 pm.
Places are limited for this visit and pre-booking is essential.
Admission includes the talk, guided visits to both churches, a guided walk around Donington, donations to both churches and tea and coffee.
Admission £16.50 and £14.00 for SLHA members
Wednesday 06 August, 2025
10.30am
Meet at Donington Church Hall PE11 4UA
Download booking form: 2025DoningtonChurches.pdf
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Bricks in Gainsborough
Led by Ken Redmore and Stewart Squires (SLHA Industrial Archaeology Team)
This event will include an introductory talk on the use of bricks in Gainsborough followed by a guided walking tour of Gainsborough. Following a buffet lunch there will be guided tour of Gainsborough Old Hall led by English Heritage Staff.
Gainsborough is one of Lincolnshire’s ‘brick’ towns. Pride of place goes to the Old Hall, one of the finest Medieval manor houses in England, dating from 1471. The town also has an impressive range of domestic, commercial and industrial brick buildings. The 90-minute tour in the morning will feature some outstanding examples, including Riverside warehouses, the Friends Meeting House of 1704 and the former Marshalls Works, dating from 1850 and for which the bricks were made on site.
The town walking tours will be about 2.5 miles in length on mainly flat terrain. It will be necessary to cross busy roads. Gainsborough Methodist Church where the introductory talk and lunch will take place is accessible and has a lift, but the afternoon tour of Gainsborough Old Hall will include some areas only accessible by stairs.
Admission £21.00 and £18.00 for SLHA and British Brick Society members. Admission will include tea and coffee on arrival and a buffet lunch.
Wednesday 24 September, 2025
10.00am - 3.00pm
Gainsborough Methodist Church, North St, DN21 2HP
Download booking form: 2025BrickDay.pdf
