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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A well written book bringing to life a man of considerable significance in the USA in the 1820s and 30s. The rather shadowy, dry and very proper figure of Pishey…
In 1842 Pishey Thompson returned to Boston, England from Washington, USA, where he had been domiciled for over 20 years. Bankrupt and impoverished, dependent on his wife’s relatives; this is…
Lincolnshire folk remember the war – some 23 individuals (members of local history groups throughout the county from Stickney, Lincoln, Alford, Whaplode, Willoughby and Anwick to name a few) record…
A thousand years of Faith, hope and rebellion. This is an epic history of the people who laid the foundations of the Christian faith in a Viking-ravaged land, forged a…
£11.50 The title ‘Rumours of Roman Finds’ is a phrase of Charles Phillips whose 1933 and 1934 article in the Archaeological Journal laid much of the groundwork for the study…
For most of the Middle Ages people believed that saints could intercede with God to effect miraculous cures, save them from injustice and transform their lives for the better. Devotion…
This book is an account of the fortunes and misfortunes of the 4th Battalion which was formed from a company in Boston in the South East of the area and…
Standing alone in empty fields set back from any road is the small but beautiful St Andrew’s church of Sempringham. It once lay at the heart of a thriving medieval…
Sir Joseph Banks was one of Lincolnshire’s most outstanding residents. He spent his childhood roaming his father’s estate in Revesby and visited the county every year for most of his…
A study of how the industrial and provident societies’ Act 1852 was passed. The first industrial and Provident Societies’ Act was critically important to the development of the Cooperative Movement…
A Reprint of the 1872 edition of Venerable Edward Trollope’s remarkable book on Sleaford and its 58 surrounding parishes. 150 years ago Trollope first published his book and is has…
This volume of the Survey of Lincoln’s booklets covers an area ranging from the industrial engineering works of Clayton and Shuttleworth in the north through to Bracebridge Low Fields in…
Stamford’s eminence as a centre for education in the Middle Ages prompted Edmund Spencer, in his 16th century epic poem the Faerie Queene, to predict that it would one day…
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 you will find pictures showing…
Sutton Bridge has a far more important place in history and industrial archaeology than many people realise. Two hundred years ago the name did not exist and in 2009 the…
Lincolnshire Archaeology & Heritage Reports Series: No. 2. This attractive volume presents the results of a detailed and comprehensive archaeological and historical survey of Ropsley and Humby in 1979. …
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