By Amelia Cosgrove This summer we’ll be highlighting Lincoln through the lens of our four-legged friends. Over the coming weeks, we’re taking you through everything Lincoln has to offer for dogs and for you, the owners, the sitters, whoever you are. We're talking The Dog Friendly Pub Crawl -…
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By Amelia Cosgrove This summer, people are craving experiences over endless consumption. After years shaped by screens, algorithms, and passive entertainment, there’s a growing shift towards real-life connection, creativity, intellectual exchange, and discovering more tangible ways to spend our…
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By Amelia Cosgrove The Daily Telegraph has named Lincoln’s Steep Hill the Prettiest Street in England, and Amelia Cosgrove discovered it’s the people on the fairest of all thoroughfares that shape its heart and character. The Telegraph had searched the country’s avenues and boulevards before…
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By Amelia Cosgrove From the top deck Whoever said tour buses weren’t cool clearly has not tried Lincoln’s open top variety. The Lincoln Tour Bus returns to duty for the summer over the second May Bank Holiday weekend – on Saturday, May 23 to be precise - but I took an early trip on the…
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The city packs six festivals into the month covering everything from science to heavy metal. The Lincoln Festival of History entertained the crowds over the early May Bank Holiday and the city was buzzing again over the second weekend in the month for two very important sporting events. The first…
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It’s one of the biggest events in British Cycling’s calendar and a chance to show off the city – AMELIA COSGROVE assesses Lincoln Grand Prix weekend from a visitor’s perspective. Come for the race, stay for the city The walk up Steep Hill is part of daily life in Lincoln; Michaelgate, those…
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Did you know that Lincoln was the birthplace of the tank? This small engineering city was instrumental in the invention of a machine that saved thousands of lives during the First World War. By 1915, trench fighting was well established and the Great War had become a stalemate. If either side…
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Lincolnshire’s contribution to the First World War can be typified in the romantic story of Daisy Lavender; a munitionette who helped build the first aircraft of the Royal Air Force in 1918. Daisy Lavender was born on 21 March 1893 in Kingston upon Thames to parents Annie and George. George was a…
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Éamon de Valera was possibly the most famous and influential Irish statesman of modern times. The evening of 3 February 1919, Éamon, along with two other Irish rebels, dramatically escaped from Lincoln Prison. But why were they inside and how did they get out? When the First World War started many…
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The 1819 Peterloo Massacre in Manchester is regarded as hugely influential in ordinary people winning the right to vote. Lincoln has been used as a location for a feature film of the event - but the city has even more links to it. What was the The Peterloo Massacre? The Peterloo Massacre occurred…
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