Lincoln’s Scandalous Mistress
By Samantha Ann Rose Brinded Level 3 History student What first drew me to Anya Seton’s 1954 historical fiction, Katherine, was the front cover. Edmund Blair Leighton’s painting,...
July 30th, 2018
July 30th, 2018
The Battle of Lincoln 1217: The Greatest Knight Saves England?
By Joe Broderick Level 3 History student The Second Battle of Lincoln (the first occurring in 1141) took place outside Lincoln Castle on 20 May 1217 during the...
July 3rd, 2018
Book Review: Mary Beard's Women & Power
by Molly Day-Coombes Level 3 History student Mary Beard’s Women & Power is the adaptation of two lectures she delivered as part of the London Review of Books lecture...
July 2nd, 2018
Why burn a flag?
by Bethany Scard Level 3 History student If any of you have been watching the news recently you will have seen Iranian officials burning the United States flag...
July 2nd, 2018
Lincoln students partake in UK and overseas research and AV activities
by Dr Erin Bell On 12 March this year, 14 undergraduate and postgraduate students from several UK institutions attended an event held here at Lincoln. The event offered...
May 14th, 2018
Reflections on the First Year of the Trump Presidency: A Roundtable
by Elliot Luke Level 1 History undergraduate Monday 12Â March 2018, Jackson Lecture Theatre, Minerva Building. Â On the evening of Monday 12Â March, a roundtable composed of three academics...
April 13th, 2018
Parsee Woman (Poona Figure) from Derby Museum
Treated and written by Monica Irisarri The opportunity to treat this 19th century Poona figure of a Parsee woman gave me a variety of conservation skills to practice,...
April 11th, 2018
In search of Shetland’s medieval fields
by Dr Mark Gardiner Stepping off the plane at Sumborough airport, I was immediately back in the North Atlantic landscape. It is a landscape familiar to anyone who...
April 4th, 2018
That’s all Folkes
by Dr Anna Marie Roos During my research leave, I spent my time as a visiting fellow at two other institutions, All Souls College at Oxford, and the...
March 26th, 2018
Robert Southey, John Wesley and scandal-mongering in the 1820s
by Dr Ian Packer Since 2006 I have been one of the co-editors of an enormous project devoted to providing a complete edition of the letters of Robert...
