Prospectus
LOCAL HISTORY THEMES
- Salt-making on the Lincolnshire coast: how this local industry is of national importance in bygone times.
- Research your Village History from scratch: how to begin and the sources available from earliest times. Your village is probably old by the time of Domesday Book!
LINCOLNSHIRE PEOPLE
- Famously Forgotten: Three long-forgotten Lincolnshire-rooted men, Sir Henry Clinton, Lt. Col. John Champion Faunthorpe and Viscount Addison, the results of whose actions fill today’s media daily.
- The First Reality Show. John Champion Faunthorpe, Olympic competitor, Big Game Hunter, Raj Administrator, Army Officer, who facilitates the classic film of the 1916 Battle of the Somme: cinema hit then and TV hit now. [More detailed look at the 2nd subject of Famously Forgotten].
- Mother’s Midwife: Christopher Addison, the Socialist Lincolnshire doctor and politician who tries to save lives: in 1915 by birthing Lincoln’s famous invention, the tank, and 1945 by making the National Health Service Bill law. [More detailed look at the 3rd subject of Famously Forgotten].
- Titanic: national disaster, local tragedy; eclipsed by the movie, the song and the TV programmes, the little-known story of Lincolnshire lad Harry, who’s lost, and Lizzie, his lover, who survives.
SEASONAL
- Santa Claus – the Revelations: a Christmas Spoof introduces some old Lincolnshire Christmas customs and traditions.
- It’s a funny sort of Christmas, 1914: the Christmas Truce on the Western Front, the unreal worlds of the soldiers of the two battalions of the Lincolnshire Regiment deployed at the time, and the folks at home in Lincolnshire trying to cope.
LIFESTYLES PAST
- Three brothers and a Bridewell: would you steal John Inman’s stockings? What happens when Thomas does: a Lincolnshire tale of the punishment and surprisingly caring benefit systems of the early 1800s.
- ‘Stand and deliver!’ Highway Robbery in Lincolnshire; the romance and the savagery. What’s Dick Turpin doing here?
- Watch the wall my darling!’ The intrigue and brutality of the heyday of Smuggling on the Lincolnshire coast. A typical smuggling operation is reconstructed.
FAMILY HISTORY
- The Ouija board says Henry’s lost gold is under a tree….Why a Lincolnshire Mountie dies on active service in Siberia. Going all the way! Finding answers to quirky and tragic posers in Family History from the present day to the Reformation.
BELIEFS
- Lincolnshire Superstitions. From Fortuna to Friday the 13th, from hollow spoons to the true murderous meaning of Haxey Hood: the pagan, superstitious and thuggish side of Lincolnshire’s past and present. (There are five practical demonstrations during the Talk).
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Talks run for about 50 minutes.
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