It's the 2026 Year of Reading, so we asked our students what books they've enjoyed lately. Find our here! history.lincoln.ac.uk/2026/04/19/w...

Re-posting this for those who might want to pursue postgraduate study here @uolhumanities.bsky.social .

Tickets for the various free events of our #MedievalAndEarlyModernWeek are still available here (see the link on the post below). All welcome! @lincolnmedieval.bsky.social @uolhumanities.bsky.social

Our wonderful student ambassadors welcome prospective students and offer holders to yesterday's offer holder day

Our extremely talented LSHH philosopher, Daniel Came, takes a break from thinking about Nietszche to play some Bach www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6qX...

Delighted that The Writing Life podcast has featured Celeste Mohammed. I was thrilled to hear her speak about her work during her visit to the University of Lincoln last year - an inspiring & memorable event. Thanks to @uolhumanities.bsky.social Global & Transregional Studies research group #booksky

Announcement! 🎺 🎺 🎺 Our MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN WEEK 2026 will be running from 23 March. Several free online and in-person events will be taking place. For more info and to sign up please visit: sway.cloud.microsoft/JQIO9vGO001e...

Would you like to help one of our @uolhumanities.bsky.social students with a research project into Quantum Models of Cognition Applied to Decision-Making under Uncertainty? Please take this 10-minute survey!https://shorturl.at/ZDnH9

The LSHH Modern and Contemporary History Research Group, in collaboration with the Film Society, invites you to a screening of the documentary Lesbians in Boystown! Wednesday 18 February 4pm–5.30pm Jackson Lecture Theatre, Minerva, Brayford Campus staffnews.lincoln.ac.uk/uol-event/lg...

LSHH PhD student Zeynep Ece Bakala presents her work on medieval female pilgrims at the Jimena 2026 conference “Spiritual Crossroads: Between Dogma and Heresy in the Medieval Mediterranean” at the Complutense University of Madrid. Congratulations on a fascinating talk, Zeynep!

We're launching a BRAND NEW COURSE! 🎉 Designed to support graduates without a background in Conservation, the MCons Conservation of Cultural Heritage is a new two-year masters. 🔗 Course info: lncn.ac/mcons2026 🔗 Webinar: lncn.ac/mconswebinar @uolhumanities.bsky.social @jimchesh.bsky.social

Online version out today worksinprogress.co/issue/were-c...

I had a great time earlier this week speaking to 650+ A Level students about philosophy of religion at Bloomsbury Baptist Church for Academy Learning. Also got in a mention of the amazing philosophy programmes we have here at @uolhumanities.bsky.social.

📖 We are delighted to celebrate the launch of LSHH historian Jon Coburn’s new book, Not Just a Housewife: Women Strike for Peace and the Cold War Women’s Peace Movement! 📖 www.umasspress.com/978162534887...

Join me for this brand new webinar on 10th December 2025, where I'll be talking about how historic interiors can be used to tell new stories of houses, and the people who lived in them. 🔗 www.lincolnconservation.co.uk/training/onl... @jimchesh.bsky.social @uolhumanities.bsky.social

Last night, Leah Warriner-Wood gave a talk for a local WI group, exploring how two early C18th sisters - Elizabeth and Sarah Hussey - worked to preserve and pass on dynastic identity through their curation of property and interior goods, and how that resonated beyond their lifetimes

New blog on our Medieval Studies students' success! history.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/2025/11/13/c...

We're pleased to announce two new books out by LSHH Emeritus Professor Anna Marie Roos: Taking Newton on Tour: The Grand Tour Travel Diary of Martin Folkes (1690–1754), and The Correspondence of Dr. Martin Lister (1639–1712), Volume Two: 1678–1694. www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

Congratulations to MA Medieval Studies students Erin Lintott and Jean Suszko who have been awarded the Lincoln Record Society Prize for their dissertations!

On 5 Nov LSHH historian Adonis Li spoke to sixth form students at the Royal Society for Asian Affairs' Schools Day, held at SOAS. He gave them a lecture on "What K-pop Tells Us About Asia".

New version of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Dualism is now live! This update was a huge job, and there’s still plenty I’d like to improve in the next version, but this will have to do until 2030. plato.stanford.edu/entries/dual...

In September LSHH Historian, Adonis Li, participated in a conference on railway aesthetics. Unusually for a conference, this event took place aboard sleeper trains between Vienna, Bucharest, and Istanbul. Here is Dr Li delivering his paper in the royal waiting room at Bucharest Nord station.

We're pleased to announce two new books out by LSHH Emeritus Professor Anna Marie Roos: Taking Newton on Tour: The Grand Tour Travel Diary of Martin Folkes (1690–1754), and The Correspondence of Dr. Martin Lister (1639–1712), Volume Two: 1678–1694. www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

What a great end to the week! A wonderful talk by author Celeste Mohammed introducing Caribbean literature & her new novel-in-stories, Ever Since We Small. Thank you to @uolhumanities.bsky.social & the Global & Transregional Studies research group (GTS) for organising. #booksky

On 23 October, LSHH historian Kate Hill will deliver a keynote talk at the National Gallery’s conference “Women Transforming Art Collections”, entitled “Women and Museums 1850 –1950: Hidden, Ignored or Undervalued?” www.nationalgallery.org.uk/networks/wom...

Royal visit 👑 We're honoured that lecturer Leah represented our department and the University of Lincoln during HRH The Duke of Edinburgh's visit to Lincoln last week. One of the highlights of the visit was the Duke's stop at the iconic 'Wonky House' at the junction of Michaelgate and Steep Hill.

For the final event of this year's Lincoln Book Festival, three LSHH academics, , Alice Crossley, Amy Culley and Rebecca Styler joined Claudia Capancioni (Lincoln Bishop University) to deliver a series of short talks on 'Beginning with Austen', to commemorate 250 years since the author's birth

Lincoln is officially the most affordable student city in the UK! (And by coincidence also the mosy beautiful and has the best cathedral)

The GTS, LSHH & Jacaranda Press are hosting the award-winning Trinidadian author Celeste Mohammed to launch Ever Since We Small. Her lecture "Truth Over Trope: West Indian Writing and the Power of the Novel-in-Stories’ will take place on Fri 17th October, 5pm in the Jackson LT. All welcome!

Students' work to conserve 2300-year-old Egyptian mummy Pa-sheri featured on BBC Look North news this evening. #conservation #culturalheritage #heritage #museums @uolhumanities.bsky.social @jimchesh.bsky.social @lyndaskipper.bsky.social @lincolnmedieval.bsky.social

We have an exciting new series of talks connecting academic research with professional practice in conservation coming up, in collaboration with Lincoln Conservation. Tickets available here: www.lincolnconservation.co.uk/training/onl...

Great to see @uolconservation.bsky.social @uolhumanities.bsky.social students from the University of Lincoln on the BBC this morning - a report in their fascinating work in conserving an Egyptian mummy

On 20 September, LSHH conservationist Leah Warriner-Wood spoke at an event celebrating 200 years since the birth of Charles Frederick Worth, in Bourne, Lincolnshire. Leah's talk, "Threads of History", introduced the role conservators play in preserving the stories that objects tell about the past.

Brilliant news from @uolconservation.bsky.social @uolhumanities.bsky.social: Mummified Makeover: Ancient Egyptian Fit for the Future After Conservation Work by Lincoln Students

We're delighted that LSHH historian, Adonis Li has been awarded a travel grant from the Royal Society for Asian Affairs to support his work. The RSAA has also invited Adonis to deliver a talk at SOAS, and to write about the rise of K-pop for its blog: rsaa.org.uk/blog/k-pops-...

Welcoming new LSHH students in the wonderful surroundings of the cathedral chapter house! A beautiful place to celebrate the beginning of the academic year

LSHH researchers Lynda Skipper, Philip Skipper, and Celal Dabanoglu participated in the international conference Stone 2025 from 8-12th September, at the Sorbonne. Lynda and Philip presented their work. The conference also included a trip to the recently restored Notre-Dame Cathedral.

As a new academic year gets underway, you can find out what we've been doing in the Lincoln School of Humanities and Heritage here in our latest newsletter! history.lincoln.ac.uk/2025/09/18/l...

And we're off! ▶️ The University of Lincoln's Welcome Week 2025 is underway in @uolhumanities.bsky.social with a welcome to postgraduate students by Deputy Head of School, Mark Hocknull.

Many congratulations to LSHH onservator @leahww.bsky.social on receiving her PhD in Conservation and Restoration!!

Literary scholars from the University of Lincoln and Bishop Grosseteste University offer new ways to think about Jane Austen’s fiction! 5 Oct 4:30pm-6pm at The Blue Room, The Lawn, Lincoln. Book your place here: lincolnbookfestival.org/festival-pro...

Thank you @medievalfemina.bsky.social and Adrian Jobson for a splendid Thirteenth Century Conference @lincolnmedieval.bsky.social @uolhumanities.bsky.social! Thanks too for giving us the option to attend online, and to @hannah-boston.bsky.social in looking after online attendees!

Massive congratulations to our brilliant University Challenge team, including two LSHH team members, for winning in Lincoln's first appearance on the show! Looking forward to round 2!! www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/lincoln...

Well done to the (first ever) team from the University of Lincoln to appear on University Challenge tonight! Brilliant performance. What a win! Including two students from @uolhumanities.bsky.social

New blog post by our student, Tabby Burrell! history.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/2025/07/22/a...

Does studying philosophy make you a better thinker? Yes! When controlling for baseline differences, philosophy students outperform all other disciplines on tests of verbal and logical reasoning and on a measure of valuable habits of mind

Rosanna McGlone’s Feisty Females – Old Bolingbroke: Through Our Imaginations recently launched at the Boston Book Festival. This is the second volume arising from a project led by LSHH's Renée Ward and imaginatively retells the stories of medieval women from Lincolnshire

On 8 June 2025, Rosanna McGlone’s Feisty Females – Old Bolingbroke: Through Our Imaginations launched at the Boston Book Festival. This volume, the second arising from a project led by LSHH's Renée Ward, imaginatively retells the stories of medieval women from Lincolnshire

Upcoming conference in beautiful Lisbon this October on "Artistic Networks of Trust: Collecting and Dealing in Times of War and Diplomacy”, organised by LSHH's Alyson Wharton-Durgaryan gulbenkian.pt/museu/en/age...

LSHH English Literature professor, Kristian Shaw, will be interviewing Vanessa Santos about her horror collection, Make a Home of Me at Waterstones on Wednesday!