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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Cambridgeshire had been marked out in the 1930s as a county of importance for the RAF. At the outbreak of war there were airfields at Alconbury, Wyton, Waterbeach, Upwood, Oakington…
Heroes, Villains & Victims is a collection of stories about some of the people who have helped to make Lincoln a distinctly interesting city, or who have acquired a black…
Slicing through the Fenland the A1073 is a corridor through time – a portal from the past. From the post-Roman silts to the north, near Spalding, the road traverses claylands,…
An entertaining and detailed account of Charles Clerke who sailed, as Capt. James Cook’s apprentice, aboard The Endeavour. He was a close friend of Joseph Banks to whom he wrote…
Right up until the Second World War, central government had little to do with the management of local affairs in small market towns. In the absence of civil servants, local…
This edition is now sold out however there will be a new edition available (hopefully) from April 2022 so please let me know (by the contact page or email) if…
A story of survival, dedication and sheer determination. With background information on the Lancaster bomber and its place in the air offensives of World War II, the place of Bomber…
Katherine Swynford is one of the most famous and enigmatic of medieval women. She has strong connections with Lincolnshire although born around 1350; daughter of Payn de Roet, a knight…
Katherine Swynford was first mistress, and later the wife, of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster. Her charismatic lover was one of the most powerful princes of the fourteenth…
Whilst previous histories of England and the German Hanse have carried sections on the east coast ports, the place of King’s Lynn in the Anglo-Hanseatic medieval world warrants an independent…
Lt-Col William Fane died in 1943 at the age of 75. He had fought in the Boar War with the Lincolnshire Regiment but was too old to take an active…
For over 900 years Lincoln Cathedral has stood as a powerful witness to the Christian faith. It was the power of this faith which drove medieval men to build this…
Dennis Mills, the son of a gardener who grew up in the estate village at Winthrope, near Newark then at Canwick, outside Lincoln. Read geography in Nottingham and after learning…
This collection explores the important contribution made by the city of Lincoln, over more than 200 years, to the engineering industry. Attention is paid to the fortunes of Lincoln’s ‘big…
A detailed account of Lincolnshire’s Airfields during the Second World War. At the height of the second World War, Lincolnshire had no fewer than 46 operational airfields, all but nine…
The provision of almshouses is a remarkable expression of piety and compassion reaching down the centuries from medieval to modern times. This new book by Linda Crust lists every medieval…
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