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!

New from our School blog! Exploring Hidden Voices and Career Pathways: Highlights from “Medieval Discoveries” history.lincoln.ac.uk/2025/06/06/e...

Thank you @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social ! Yes, the project is underway @uolhumanities.bsky.social.

We are delighted to announce that Saheba Saxena has successfully passed the viva for her PhD in Philosophy with her thesis ‘Analysing the Anselmian Being and God’s Moral Obligations Towards Rational Beings.’

Congratulations to Leah Warriner-Wood on passing the viva for her PhD in Conservation! Leah successfully defended her thesis, 'Material Maketh Man: Material self-fashioning of cultural identity within John Delaval’s tapestry interiors at Doddington Hall, 1759-62.'

Behind the Glass: a Conservation Exhibition by final year BA(Hons) Conservation of Cultural Heritage students 🗓️ 2-13 June 📍 University of Lincoln 🎟️ No booking necessary 💷 Free entry 🔗 lncn.ac/behindglass @jimchesh.bsky.social @uolhumanities.bsky.social @lincolnmedieval.bsky.social

Congratulations to LSHH historian Jon Coburn on being his inspirational teacher of the year award from the Lincoln students' union!!

LSHH researcher Alyson Wharton-Durgaryan's new book on Armenian architecture, supported by the Barakat Trust, comes out later this year. Read about it here! shorturl.at/729mX

Almost time for the 2025 student edition of the Lincoln Philosophy Salon! Looking forward to public talks on art and morality, personhood, and the quantum measurement problem by three of our brilliant current students

Many thanks to @jimchesh.bsky.social @uolhumanities.bsky.social for such a wonderful talk today on Tennyson & the Pre-Raphaelites

Congratulations to everyone celebrating their graduation in Uphill Lincoln this lovely evening!

The first Lincolnshire Libraries Local History Festival is running throughout May! You can find out about what's on here: www.better.org.uk/library/linc...

For the annual Lincoln Medieval History Lecture on 7 May, 5:30pm, Dr Nicholas Bennett will give a talk entitled "Combatting the ‘swinish snouts’ of heretics: the life and episcopate of Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln 1420-1431'." Sign up here! forms.office.com/e/Vczi9xV6iD

LSHH is involved in organising many exciting events for the 2025 Festival of History! Find out what's on here: staffnews.lincoln.ac.uk/2025/04/10/j...

Just arrived - copy of Cromwell’s Head by my @uolhumanities.bsky.social colleague Jonathan Fitzgibbons. That’s my Easter reading sorted!

With @isochesh.bsky.social visiting Tinashe’s excellent exhibition lincolnartscentre.co.uk/event/commun... take a look if you’re in Lincoln @uolconservation.bsky.social @uolhumanities.bsky.social @leahww.bsky.social @lincolncons.bsky.social @laurafg.bsky.social @lincolnmedieval.bsky.social

Many thanks to @uolhumanities.bsky.social colleague, Dr Jonathan Fitzgibbons, for his excellent talk this evening about #Lincoln in the English Civil Wars. Looking forward to reading Jon's book, Cromwell's Head!

Lincoln's fantastic C19 Research Group PGR Rep, Rebecca Shipp, is organising this year's PGR Symposium, featuring a keynote lecture from Prof. Roger Ebbatson: 'Ever the Road: Hardy and Edward Thomas'. All welcome, free to attend. Weds 7th May, Brayford Campus, MB0312. Full programme to come soon!

Our Nineteenth-Century Research Group has a new BlueSky account, please give them a follow @c19-lincoln.bsky.social!

TONIGHT LSHH historian Dr Jon Fitzgibbons will give an online talk, explaining the role played by Lincoln during England’s Civil Wars (1642-1651). Please register here www.eventbrite.com/e/the-city-o...

On 5 May, Jim Cheshire, LSHH cultural historian and Associate Professor will give a lecture on Alfred Tennyson’s fluctuating relationship with the Pre-Raphaelites as part of this year's Festival of History. Reserve seats here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tennyson-a... @jimchesh.bsky.social

LSHH philosopher @ralphstefanweir.bsky.social discusses the problem of mind-body interaction on the Walden Pod podcast

Here is a new post by our student, Jamie Markham, about his experience volunteering at the Metheringham Airfield museum history.lincoln.ac.uk/2025/04/07/m...

You can now follow our Lincoln's medieval research group on Instagram! www.instagram.com/medievalinco...

There are several exciting events coming up for Medieval and Early Modern Week, beginning with a performance of "Ballads of Robyn Hode" by The Lincoln Mystery Plays on Saturday 5 April at 2pm and 4pm. Find out more here! sway.cloud.microsoft/Rf9hLLQCzM1P...

On Saturday 29 March 2025, LSHH researcher Dr. Renée Ward, along with community partners in Old Bolingbroke, Lincs, and Lincolnshire County Council launched a volume of oral histories and an exhibition featuring the village’s medieval heritage, Old Bolingbroke: Through Our Eye shorturl.at/0JJwG

A new special issue of Theologica on death and the afterlife co-edited by Lincoln philosopher Dr Daniel Came and Dr Mikolaj Slawkowski-Rode is now available online! ojs.uclouvain.be/index.php/th...

From exploring metaphysics and the nature of reality to joining the Guides and Scouts Society, hear Thomas share his experience of studying BA (Hons) Philosophy at the University of Lincoln. 📚 Discover more: lncn.ac/Philosophy fb.watch/yzHZtKo3IQ/

LSHH Senior Lecturer, Dr Jonathan Fitzgibbons, discusses Oliver Cromwell’s attempt to create a second house for the History of Parliament Blog! historyofparliament.com/2025/03/25/o...