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!

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!