Historic Lincolnshire: the focus of SLHA

SOCIETY FOR LINCOLNSHIRE HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY

Promoting Lincolnshire's Past

The SLHA promotes an interest in Lincolnshire's past by:

Running courses and meetings
Arranging visits, surveys and fieldwork
Publishing and selling books

Try the TENNYSON Prize Quiz (to celebrate the bicentenary of his birth)

See also the third collection of cryptic clues for Lincolnshire Placenames

Miss F A R Murray, OBE. We are sad to announce the death of Flora Murray, former Chairman of SLHA, on 1 May in Lincoln at the age of 96. See tribute on the News Page.

NEW PUBLICATION

Lincolnshire Country Houses & Their Families: Part One

Terence R Leach

SLHA, 2009 (reprint of 1990)

84pp, ISBN 978 0 903582 36 0

Paperback Ł11.95 (Ł14.50 by post UK)

For details of this and other books in the same series see Other Publications page

Forthcoming events (open to all)...

ASSOCIATION FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY

Annual National Conference

Jointly hosted by SLHA

Friday 4 to Thursday 10 September 2009
At University of Lincoln main campus

Full details and booking form are posted on the Association for Industrial Archaeology website.

VISIT TO R.A.F. CRANWELL

Thursday 2 July 2009 at 10.30 a.m.
Two-hour tour
Contact SLHA office for further details

ANNUAL BRACKENBURY LECTURE

Tennyson’s Lincolnshire:
an Environmental Perspective

Prof. Mark Seaward

Saturday, 11 July 2009, 3.00 p.m.
At Raithby Chapel near Spilsby

TENNYSON'S EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DIALECT POEMS

21st Annual W H Hosford Memorial lecture

Rodney Lines

Thursday 16 July 2009, 7.30 p.m.
At St Denys's Church Room, Market Place, Sleaford

DUCK DECOYS

Hilary Healey

Friday, 17 July 2009, 7.30 p.m.

at St John's Church Lounge,
Hawthorn Bank, Spalding

SLHA MEMBERS RECEIVE A 20% DISCOUNT ON ALL BOOKS PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY

FREE BOOK (choice from 7) FOR NEW MEMBERS - see Membership page

See the Society's full 2009 Events Calendar here