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It’s 1946 and Juliet Ashton can’t think what to write next. Out of the blue she receives a letter from Dawsey Adams of Guernsey. By chance he has acquired a…
The island of Jethou lies east of Guernsey and south of its immediate neighbour, Herm. With an area of just under 0.2km2 around 49 acres Jethou is the smallest of…
1862. Young widow Eugénie is left bereft when her husband dies suddenly and faces an uncertain future in Guernsey. A further tragedy brings her to the attention of Monsieur Victor…
In the aftermath of the First Crusade 1096-1099, which led to the capture of Jerusalem, the Christians’ decided there was a continuing need to protect Pilgrims from Saracen attacks hence…
Following almost 300 years of the history of The Lincolnshire Regiment (the Tenth Foot), raised by the parliament of King James II, along with ten other regiments of infantry to…
The Lincolnshire coast has been part of the British seaside experience since railways opened up the area to holidaymakers in the late nineteenth century. Coastal resorts that in the eighteenth…
This book charts a dramatic period in the history of a fascinating and neglected part of the county. It examines the momentous change and one which saw a farming backwater…
Medieval Grantham is an unknown town. Here, fifteen scholars combine new studies of historical documentation with new assessments of the town’s buildings and buried archaeology, to characterise the medieval town…
Catherine Wilson, came to Lincoln in 1964 to work for Lincoln City Council as a Museum/Gallery assistant. In 1986, whilst researching for the bicentenary exhibition of Sir John Franklin’s birth…
This small book is primarily a photographic history of the paint schemes of AVRO LANCASTER B.VII NX611 ‘Just Jane’ from 1945 to 2009. It does however include the history of…
One of a series of books based on the author’s popular series for Flypast magazine. The books are designed for the historian, enthusiast, tourist and anyone with an interest in…
At the mention of Pop Festivals most people will automatically think of Woodstock and the Isle of Wight. Lincolnshire however had its own events and four of these are recorded…
In 1842 the mayor lamented, ‘There is more debauchery in Lincoln than in any other town of its size in the kingdom.’ Lincoln Races was a magnet for vice: by…
The Sleaford to Bourne Branch of the Great Northern Railway nearly never happened. Planned by the Company as part of an attempt to block another railway’s scheme to intrude into…
This trail has been designed to look at the rich Roman heritage to be found in the district of North Kesteven. The trail is divided into two parts: the first…
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