The Making of the Lincolnshire Landscape Saturday 21 June 2025
This interdisciplinary conference, orgtanised by the Society for Lincolnshire History & Archaeology (SLHA) aims to explore the diversity of Lincolnshire’s landscape and to examine the changing ways over time in which it carries the imprint of its human inhabitants. Partly inspired by W.G. Hoskins’ ground-breaking The Making of the English Landscape, published 70 years ago, in 1955, the conference allows aspects of the SLHA’s interests across a variety of subject areas to be showcased – including archaeology, local history, industrial archaeology, and the recording of vernacular buildings.
Talks will include:
Lincolnshire’s watery landscapes
The lost creeks of the coastal marshes and their ports. By Caitlin Green
Losers may speak, and this is Truth without Scandalum Magnatum: the struggle against noble power and privilege to drain the Lindsey Level By Thomas Brown-Warr
Fenland, drainage and enclosure in the Boston district’ By Neil Wright
Improving’ Lincolnshire’s rural landscapes
Aristocratic landscapes in Lincolnshire By Charles Rawding
Loan capital for landlord improvements on Lincolnshire estates in the second half of the nineteenth century By Shirley Brook,
The tools that make the English landscape By Kate Genever with Paul Genever
The medieval Lincolnshire townscape
The Lincolnshire township – the building block for the high medieval landscape By Mark Gardiner,
Dwelling in Lincolnshire landscapes – buildings and their dwellingscapes By Jenne Pape
Recording and planning evolving Lincolnshire townscapes
The towns of Lincolnshire: a recent survey By Ian George
Exploring an evolving streetscape: the case of Gainsborough By Abigail Buckland,
Town planning and the creation of suburbia By Rob Wheeler
