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...

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...

Reflections on the First Year of the Trump Presidency: A Roundtable

by Elliot Luke Level 1 History undergraduate Monday 12 March 2018, Jackson Lecture Theatre, Minerva Building.   On the evening of Monday 12 March, a roundtable composed of three academics...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

A Curious Find: The Tomb of Remigius in Lincoln Cathedral

by Timothy R. Jones L3 undergraduate On the 8th May 1092, The body of Remigius De Fecamp was interred in the yet un-consecrated cathedral of Lincoln. The first...

Identity and the Other – East Midlands History Network

by Rachel Yemm and Abi Dorr  eastmidlandshistory@gmail.com / @EM_HistoryNet As third year PhD students at the University of Lincoln, we have greatly benefitted from many advantages of working at...

Lincoln's Chinese Missionary

by Amber Clark and Jess Haddock L3 undergraduates The Lincoln University library, in collaboration with the history department and a handful of history students, is in the process...