University academics support launch of edited collection of essays

Lincoln Bishop University is delighted to support the launch of a splendid new volume: Land and God: The City, County and Diocese of Lincoln over Nine Centuries. 

The edited collection of essays honours the work of former Lincoln Cathedral Librarian, Dr Nicholas Bennett. The recent launch event in the Cathedral Chapter House was an opportunity to thank the editors and fellow contributors, and the publishers, the Lincoln Record Society and Boydell & Brewer. 

Andrew Jackson, Professor of Local, Regional and Landscape History at Lincoln Bishop University, was especially pleased to see the reuniting of the 2018 #Vote100BGU team. Andrew, together with Claudia Capancioni, Professor of English Literature, and former history and English Literature students, Elaine Johnson, Sian Hope-Johnson, and Jasmine Mills, were at the forefront of local and regional initiatives to ensure that the centenary of the first Women’s Suffrage legislation was commemorated and celebrated. They created a touring exhibition in 2018 to mark the historic occasion.

The University’s Vote100 team undertook extensive research on the development of the suffrage movement in the county. This included a search of the institution’s archives for accounts left by its staff and students. In the College Magazine for 1909, two significant letters were found, putting powerful cases for women both attaining and not attaining the vote. It is an honour and privilege for the team’s study of these letters to appear in this impressive book, and for the names, thoughts, and words of the two former students of 1909 to be revisited and remembered. The chapter contributed by the team is:

Andrew JH Jackson, Claudia Capancioni, Sian Hope-Johnson, Elaine Johnson, and Jasmine Mills (2025) ‘Debating the vote for women at the Lincoln Diocesan Training College: national and regional testimonies to Women's Suffrage, 1909', in Paul Dryburgh and Philippa Hoskin (eds) Land and God: The City, County and Diocese of Lincoln over Nine Centuries. Essays in Honour of Nicholas Bennett, Boydell/Lincoln Record Society, pp. 199-217.