New research on the City, County and Historic Diocese of Lincoln

9.30  Tea/Coffee and registration

10.00 Welcome and introduction

10.05-11.30 Documenting the medieval Diocese of Lincoln

• Editing the Kirkstead Abbey cartulary: the perspective of underexplored local sources’ Kathryn Dutton,
• Professor Joseph Goering – our debt to him for the future of the study of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln 1235–1253’ Owain Gardner
• Anglo-papal tensions: clerical appointments and patronage networks as depicted in the registers of Bishop Thomas Bek of Lincoln (1342-1347)’ Jessica Holt

11.30-11.50 Coffee break

11.50-12.40 Regulating behaviour in the early-modern Diocese of Lincoln

• To the fatherless chyldren at sanct kateryns wyth owt the barres off Lincoln, xxd”: investigating testators' charitable giving in Lincolnshire fenland districts, 1520-40’ Brian Hodgkinson,
• Ecclesiastical judges and the importance of emotion: Lincoln’s Audience Court and further dismantling historiographical orthodoxies around institutional efforts to restrain illicit sexual conduct’ Martin Roberts

12.40-1.30 Lunch

1.30-2.45 Surveying people and property over space and time

• The Surveighe of the Mannour of Toynton” - life on the fen edge in the early years of the seventeenth century’ Jenne Pape
• Parliamentary surveys of the county and diocese of Lincoln, 1647-1660’ Mike Rogers
• Exploring social and cultural history through decorative architectural features. A case study of late-Victorian and Edwardian tiled entrances in Lincoln suburban houses’ Shirley Brook,

2.45-3.05 - Refreshments

3.05-4.25 – Life stories in early- and later-modern Lincolnshire 

• Geography and poll books: the political distribution of voters during the Lincolnshire by-election of 1721’ Thomas Brown-Warr
• The early memoirs of William Smith Hesleden (1774-1854), solicitor and antiquarian of Barton-upon-Humber'. Martin Watkinson
• Lincoln Diocesan Training College: untold stories from its early students’  Jack Rhoden et al

4.25-4.30 – Closing remarks

In addition to a selection of talks, the Conference will host book-stalls selling new and second-hand books and maps. We look forward to welcoming you.

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Admission £32.00 including lunch

£25.00 for Students, SLHA, BALH and LRS members

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