Announcement! 🎺 🎺 🎺
Our MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN WEEK 2026 will be running from 23 March.
Several free online and in-person events will be taking place. For more info and to sign up please visit:
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Announcement! 🎺 🎺 🎺
Our MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN WEEK 2026 will be running from 23 March.
Several free online and in-person events will be taking place. For more info and to sign up please visit:
sway.cloud.microsoft/JQIO9vGO001e...
Would you like to help one of our @uolhumanities.bsky.social students with a research project into Quantum Models of Cognition Applied to Decision-Making under Uncertainty? Please take this 10-minute survey!https://shorturl.at/ZDnH9
19.02.2026 15:19 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The LSHH Modern and Contemporary History Research Group, in collaboration with the Film Society, invites you to a screening of the documentary Lesbians in Boystown!
Wednesday 18 February
4pm–5.30pm
Jackson Lecture Theatre, Minerva, Brayford Campus staffnews.lincoln.ac.uk/uol-event/lg...
LSHH PhD student Zeynep Ece Bakala presents her work on medieval female pilgrims at the Jimena 2026 conference “Spiritual Crossroads: Between Dogma and Heresy in the Medieval Mediterranean” at the Complutense University of Madrid.
Congratulations on a fascinating talk, Zeynep!
We're launching a BRAND NEW COURSE! 🎉
Designed to support graduates without a background in Conservation, the MCons Conservation of Cultural Heritage is a new two-year masters.
🔗 Course info: lncn.ac/mcons2026
🔗 Webinar: lncn.ac/mconswebinar
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Online version out today worksinprogress.co/issue/were-c...
18.12.2025 17:20 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1
I had a great time earlier this week speaking to 650+ A Level students about philosophy of religion at Bloomsbury Baptist Church for Academy Learning.
Also got in a mention of the amazing philosophy programmes we have here at @uolhumanities.bsky.social.
📖 We are delighted to celebrate the launch of LSHH historian Jon Coburn’s new book, Not Just a Housewife: Women Strike for Peace and the Cold War Women’s Peace Movement! 📖
www.umasspress.com/978162534887...
Join me for this brand new webinar on 10th December 2025, where I'll be talking about how historic interiors can be used to tell new stories of houses, and the people who lived in them.
🔗 www.lincolnconservation.co.uk/training/onl...
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Last night, Leah Warriner-Wood gave a talk for a local WI group, exploring how two early C18th sisters - Elizabeth and Sarah Hussey - worked to preserve and pass on dynastic identity through their curation of property and interior goods, and how that resonated beyond their lifetimes
19.11.2025 11:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0New blog on our Medieval Studies students' success! history.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/2025/11/13/c...
14.11.2025 17:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We'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...
21.10.2025 10:49 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Congratulations to MA Medieval Studies students Erin Lintott and Jean Suszko who have been awarded the Lincoln Record Society Prize for their dissertations!
07.11.2025 15:43 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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".
07.11.2025 15:36 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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...
21.10.2025 10:49 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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
17.10.2025 17:46 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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...
17.10.2025 16:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
13.10.2025 13:13 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lincoln is officially the most affordable student city in the UK! (And by coincidence also the mosy beautiful and has the best cathedral)
08.10.2025 16:03 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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!
07.10.2025 10:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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...
06.10.2025 17:10 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Great 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
06.10.2025 06:01 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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.
03.10.2025 13:16 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Brilliant news from @uolconservation.bsky.social @uolhumanities.bsky.social: Mummified Makeover: Ancient Egyptian Fit for the Future After Conservation Work by Lincoln Students
02.10.2025 17:29 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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-...
30.09.2025 12:20 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Welcoming new LSHH students in the wonderful surroundings of the cathedral chapter house! A beautiful place to celebrate the beginning of the academic year
24.09.2025 10:35 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0