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City of Lincoln's Festival of History

BGU's Professor Andrew Jackson designs content for literary trail!

'Living Lincoln: A Virtual Literary Trail'

Bishop Grosseteste University (BGU) is delighted to be supporting the 2025 City of Lincoln Festival of History, with our contribution, the 'Living Lincoln: A Virtual Literary Trail'. The Festival will be taking place 3^rd to 5^th May, organised by Visit Lincoln and City of Lincoln Council.

The trail will follow in the footsteps of Lincolnshire author, Bernard Samuel Gilbert, who walked around the city 110 years or so ago. Gilbert described in rich and compelling detail many of the city's buildings and the life in the surrounding streets.

The trail has been extended for 2025 to include new optional destinations, the Sincil Bank Football Ground, and the Racecourse site on West Common.

"The best times to explore Lincoln are before breakfast and after dinner. In the early morning you can see the place; at night the people..." Bernard Samuel Gilbert

The content of the trail has been curated by Andrew Jackson, Professor of Local, Regional and Landscape History, and a Gilbert expert, and has been supported by fellow local historians of the Survey of Lincoln project.

You will discover sites and sounds of the city that have inspired literature, and you will creatively reimagine our local past by following the tour virtually or on foot. The trail for the Festival Weekend can now be viewed here on the official 'Living Lincoln: A Virtual Literary Trail' website!