A collection of books about different aspects of Lincolnshire. Sport, such as golf; how Woodhall Spa became the headquarters of the English Golf Union. Pop festivals in Lincoln, Spalding and Bardney. People; such as William Brewster (of the Pilgrim Fathers), Pishey Thompson and Sabine Baring-Gould who achieved significance through dint of their hard work and conviction. Famous women too such as Enid Blyton authoress, Eliza Joyce murderess, Madge Kendall, actress. Farming, over 5000 years, and the economic, social and physical affect it has on the community. The armed forces; from ‘The Royal Navy in Lincolnshire’ though the county has no naval ports (and including reference to such names as Banks, Bass and James Cook), to remarkable and moving personal accounts of serving in the Second World War from Dunkirk, Syria and Burma (‘All the King’s Enemies’), Norway, Iceland and Europe (‘Saturday Night Soldiers’).
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This ninth volume in the Survey of Lincoln’s booklet series explores the growth of the district and is plotted here from the 16th century into the early years of the…
This eighth volume in the Survey of Lincoln’s booklet series explores the district surrounding one of Lincoln’s best known geographical features, Brayford Pool. In common with other volumes in the…
Molly Burkett is one of the writers of the Once Upon a Wartime Series of which this book is No. 18. She started collecting stories from people who were children…
Parish communities were at the centre of the considerable changes that took place in religious life in England between 1660 and 1900. The development of Protestant Dissent and Evangelical Revival,…
Nearly five decades have gone by since the voters of Lincoln helped to reshape the nation’s political scene and their rebel MP Dick Taverne spearheaded what was to be a…
Lincolnshire Archaeology and Heritage Reports Series No. 11 In 1980 Paul Everson carried out a field study of the earthworks of the exceptionally well-preserved site of the Premonstratensian abbey of…
Cholera threatened Lincoln during the national epidemic of 1848-49. The book reproduces the street by street report by George Giles, an eminent engineer, on the insanitary condition of the city, as…
Lincolnshire Archaeology and Heritage reports Series: No. 1 Promotional Price for the summer £10.95 – please select ‘clearance’ copy. A series of unexpected events led to the survey (during the…
During the 1980’s a large part of the Fenland of Eastern England (the country?s largest former wetland) was the subject of a major programme of field walking. Following publication of this…
The County of Lincolnshire is a beautiful mixture of low-lying marshy fen land, modest hills and the steep valleys of the rolling Wolds; it is also home to a wealth…
From being born in a farm labourer’s cottage, to owning a highly successful poultry business, Fred Panton has always been a determined man. His story describes not only how Fred,…
Stickford, a parish of about 400 people, is situated on the A16 north of Boston, at the foot of the Lincolnshire Wolds. In this book, written to commemorate the centenary…
Grantham has a rich industrial past – from malting and brewing to machine making and engineering. Richard Hornsby took the name of the town across the world and many other…
According to the Imperial War Museum the town of Grantham has something of its history not possessed by most other towns of comparable size, namely a pictorial diary of its…
The author, Ray Bell, was born in 1930, in a one-up, one-down, farm labourer’s cottage in Eastgate, within a stone’s throw of the main entrance to the Showground at Heckington. …
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