History writer and chair of trustees at Lincoln Drill Hall, Phil Hamlyn Williams, shares with us the importance of Magna Carta and its links with Lincoln. It could so easily have been lost. For ten short weeks in the summer of 1215, a charter carrying King John’s seal tied his hands. He hated it…
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You may be familiar with the term, but what is Steampunk exactly? We spoke to the Chair of the Victorian Steampunk Society, Major Thadeus Tinker (aka John Naylor), to find out more. The Asylum Steak Punk Festival is the largest steampunk festival in the world. Hosted at Lincoln Castle, the…
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The Charter of the Forest, sealed on 6th November 1217, is an incredibly important medieval document with a history woven into the city of Lincoln. The Charter of the Forest, sealed on 6th November 1217, is an incredibly important medieval document with a history woven into the city of Lincoln…
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William Marshal has been dubbed “England’s greatest knight” – and probably the most loyal. William Marshal’s remarkable life is the stuff of a blockbuster movie. He served five English kings from Henry II through to his grandson Henry III, and was 70 years old at the time of the 1217 Battle of…
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The remarkable Nichola de la Haye stands out as a Lincolnshire hero. As Constable of Lincoln Castle, she played a vital part in winning the 1217 Battle of Lincoln. In an age when women were little more than the property of their husbands, barred from public life with their lives unrecorded, Nichola…
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Lincolnshire played a major part in the First World War on land, at sea, and in the air through men serving in the forces and the munitionette women who stayed behind. A substantial proportion of Lincolnshire men enlisted to join the British Army's principal unit in the region, the Lincolnshire…
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