PROGRAMME
Our lectures and visits
The lectures will be held either in the Methodist Church in Nichol Hill, LN11 9NQ, or online using Zoom. Visitors or members may request a Zoom link by emailing start.david@btinternet.com.
The lectures will be held either in the Methodist Church in Nichol Hill, LN11 9NQ, or online using Zoom. Visitors or members may request a Zoom link by emailing start.david@btinternet.com.
This lecture will be held in Louth Methodist Church, Nichol Hill.
Chris Hewis is Chair of Saxilby and District History Group and the Treasurer of the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology. He has written several books and articles on local history and was a regular member of BBC Radio Lincolnshire’s ‘Lunch Bunch’.
With images from Saxilby History Group’s ‘John Wilson Collection’, Chris will introduce us to the “Golden Age of Postcards”, a period between 1905 and 1915 when postcards became incredibly popular as a means of communication and art, and a few early Lincolnshire photographers who took advantage of the craze.
This lecture will be held on Zoom. For details contact David Start.
Steven Gunn is Fellow and Tutor in History at Merton College, Oxford, and Professor of Early Modern History. His research interests are in the political, social, cultural and military history of England and its continental neighbours from the mid-fifteenth to the later sixteenth century. He has written books on Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, c1484-1545 (1988), Early Tudor Government, 1485-1558 (1995), War, State and Society in England and the Netherlands, 1477-1559 (2007), Henry VII’s New Men and the Making of Tudor England (2016), and The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII (2018).
Tudor England was a dangerous place. There were plagues and wars, perilous childbirths and shocking infant mortality. But what risks did people face as they went about their everyday lives? Steven Gunn and Tomasz Gromelski have investigated this problem using evidence from coroners’ reports preserved in the National Archives. The project entitled ‘Everyday Life and Fatal Hazard in Sixteenth-Century England’ was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the book based on its findings, An Accidental History of Tudor England: From Daily Life to Sudden Death will be published by John Murray in June 2025.
This lecture will be held in Louth Methodist Church, Nichol Hill.
Professor Lynda Payne formerly Chair of the Volunteers at Louth Museum, specialises in the history of medicine in Britain.
Kathryn Laverack is a Certified Chocolate Taster, Chocolate Educator and International Chocolate Judge.
Chocolate was introduced to England about 1600 and for the next 200 years it was primarily consumed as a hot drink. Lynda starts by focusing on the reasons and context for the popularity of drinking hot chocolate. Then we break for hot chocolate tasting. Kathryn concludes our presentation with a look at the taste profile of the chocolate consumed from the 1600s and the history of communities behind its farming and trading.