Aspects of Lincolnshire History

A collection of books about different aspects of Lincolnshire. Sport, such as golf; how Woodhall Spa became the headquarters of the English Golf Union. Pop festivals in Lincoln, Spalding and Bardney. People; such as William Brewster (of the Pilgrim Fathers), Pishey Thompson and Sabine Baring-Gould who achieved significance through dint of their hard work and conviction. Famous women too such as Enid Blyton authoress, Eliza Joyce murderess, Madge Kendall, actress. Farming, over 5000 years, and the economic, social and physical affect it has on the community. The armed forces; from 'The Royal Navy in Lincolnshire' though the county has no naval ports (and including reference to such names as Banks, Bass and James Cook), to remarkable and moving personal accounts of serving in the Second World War from Dunkirk, Syria and Burma ('All the King's Enemies'), Norway, Iceland and Europe ('Saturday Night Soldiers').

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Occasional Papers in Lincolnshire History and Archaeology No 12 Edited by Phillip Lindley £12.95
Occasional Papers in Lincolnshire History and Archaeology No 9 Edited by Christopher Sturman £2.00
Pishey Thompson – Man of Two Worlds Isabel Bailey £105.00
Pishey Thompson’s Boston Diary – 18th Oct 1842 - 6th April 1844 Isabel Bailey £29.95
Ploughs, chaff cutters and steam engines Edited by Ken Redmore £17.50
Roman Lincolnshire J B Whitwell £4.95