The month of May is 'Local History Month’, in Lincolnshire and around the UK, and we will be able to look forward to various fascinating events around the county. The programme includes the City of Lincoln Festival of History, which runs once again this year, over the Bank Holiday weekend, 2nd to 4th May.
Lincoln Bishop University is very pleased to be promoting this major annual festival. Andrew Jackson, Professor of Local, Regional and Landscape History at the University, has relaunched his regular contribution, the 'Living Lincoln: A Virtual Literary Trail’, for the Festival weekend.
The Trail provides a wonderful online guide to walking around the streets of Lincoln just before the First World War. It includes colourful street-corner observations by the Lincolnshire author, Bernard Samual Gilbert (1882-1927), which he sent to the Lincolnshire Echo for publication. You will be able to visit online or by foot the various sites that inspired his writing, and still fascinate us today.
Andrew, a Gilbert expert, curated the content of the Trail, supported by fellow local historians of the Survey of Lincoln project.
To find out more about the Lincoln Festival of History, please click here!