Join us, online with Carol Ann Lloyd as we learn about the Tudors. Tickets: Members £5 / Non-members £8. A discounted ticket for all talks in this series is also available. Tickets can be bought from our shop and if this isn’t the first time you’ve paid more why don’t you become a member and start saving?

The Heritage Lincolnshire Archaeology Club! Join our Heritage Lincolnshire Archaeology Club, for our Autumn Term starting in September. Age: 8-16 Using artefacts, they will explore the stories of people who have come and gone from Lincolnshire over the last 2,000 years and learn the skills needed to tell their story. Tickets can be bought from…

Are you interested in fashion / fashion history?  Did you know that one of Europe’s and North America’s most influential 19th century fashion designers was born in Lincolnshire? That our modern understanding of brand and ‘brand identity’ began with the ‘House of Worth’ fashion brand that he established? Bourne Arts & Community Trust, in association…

Magickal Correspondance Join us online, with Flange & Prong, for this interesting talk. Want to know how to add potency and power to your spellwork? Well, join us for this fascinating chat and  discover which herbs, crystals, colours and moon phases to work with and why and give your magick an extra kick! Tickets: Members…

Tickets can be bought from our shop and if this isn’t the first time you’ve paid more why don’t you become a member and start saving?

Part of the Lincolnshire HODs Festival 2022 The Society for Lincolnshire History & Archaeology (SLHA) has access to a rich collection of images of Lincolnshire displaying a wide range of subjects including villages, buildings, people, transport, work, farming, entertainment and many more. Visit our online exhibition and explore an intriguing world of images that depict…

Part of the Lincolnshire HODs Festival 2022 This family friendly Treasure hunt is based on the legend that a casket of gold coins intended for Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Jacobite Rebellion in 1745 was discovered on a ship at the port of Gainsborough. It was confiscated then never heard of again. This walking trail takes you…

Part of the Lincolnshire HODs Festival 2022 Discover this 1936 workhouse, built following the 1934 poor law amendment to help the poor. The workhouse was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott a prolific architect of the nineteeth century, that could accommodate 350 paupers at a cost of £5,600. See this fantastic building with hidden gems,…

Part of the Lincolnshire HODs Festival 2022 Visit the Old Grammar School where Isaac Newton, Lord Burghley and Albert Ball and other VC holders were taught. Displays of school memorabilia and photographs. See Newton's and other boys' names carved into the window sills and jambs. View the courtyard adjacent to the Headmaster's house. Grantham Civic…

Part of the Lincolnshire HODs Festival 2022 We will open the Garton Archive to display its contents and share recent research through two talks exploring Industry, Design, Innovation and family history through the pupils at Lincoln Grammar School in 1881 and their achievements. There will be two main strands to the morning: 1. Visit: from…

Part of the Lincolnshire HODs Festival 2022 A 'live' community archaeological excavation revealing the rich Iron Age and Roman heritage of Norton Disney. A chance to see archaeology 'up close and personal' and to learn about the rich heritage of the site on the Lincs/Notts border that dates back to the Bronze Age. Not only…

In this full-day workshop, you’ll learn how to use a jeweller’s saw as well as techniques for shaping, texturing and polishing copper to make your own copper tealight holder ready to take home. Booking is essential as places are limited on each workshop. Tickets: Members £50/ Non-members £60. Tickets can be bought from our shop (under Craft…

Part of the Lincolnshire HODs Festival 2022 Discover the history of the Black Sluice site which has had a role in land drainage since 1638 and get up close to the magnificent machines from the 1940s and 1960s which rarely survive in situ. Black Sluice has been at the forefront of drainage technology since the…

Part of the Lincolnshire HODs Festival 2022 Join us for guided walks taking in the local heritage of the cemetery and the town. There will also be heritage displays explaining the history of the cemetery itself and of Victorian Boston, as well as a showcase of information from burial registers and inscriptions which are being…

Part of the Lincolnshire HODs Festival 2022 Historic Motor and Sail CIC will highlight celebrated vehicles and vessels with links to the area, including those designed and built in Northern Lincolnshire with Spider T., which was key to the Queen's Diamond Jubilee pageant on the River Thames in 2012, and will participate in the Humber…

Part of the Lincolnshire HODs Festival 2022 Under Stamford's shops and offices are cellars which were converted as designated Air Raid Shelters in World War Two. Join local historian Chris Hunt on this 'Walk and Talk' and discover their location, as well as the site of the first Air Raid on the town. Booklet Number:…

Part of the Lincolnshire HODs Festival 2022 City of Lincoln Council has secured funding to breathe new life into Lincoln High Street through the High Streets Heritage Action Zone (HSHAZ) programme. The programme is part of a national project lead by Historic England which aims to transform historic high streets by restoring buildings, making improvements…

Part of the Lincolnshire HODs Festival 2022 This family friendly Treasure hunt is based on the legend that a casket of gold coins intended for Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Jacobite Rebellion in 1745 was discovered on a ship at the port of Gainsborough. It was confiscated then never heard of again. This walking trail takes you…

Part of the Lincolnshire HODs Festival 2022 A cloying smell, muddy village lanes and the sugar beet campaign! An exhibition exploring the ‘seed-to-sack’ processes and the impact of Brigg’s sugar factory on its staff, its sporting/social yesteryear, on local communities and landscape. Booklet Number: 4a Region: Brigg Address: Brigg Heritage Centre, 1st Floor, The Angel,…

Part of the Lincolnshire HODs Festival 2022 Explore this beautiful Norman country church with a talk by guide Jean Howard. This attractive greenstone church has many interesting features including boxed pews facing in different directions and an interesting Norman typanum. Booklet Number: 14a Region: Haltham-on-Bain Address: Church of St Benedict, Haltham on Bain, near Horncastle…

Part of the Lincolnshire HODs Festival 2022 Far Ings National Nature reserve hasn't always been a haven for wildlife. Explore the history of the site with a self guided trail (available from the Visitor Centre) which leads you into the industrial past.   Booklet Number: 1b Region: Barton Upon Humber Address: Far Ings National Nature…

Part of the Lincolnshire HODs Festival 2022 Explore the fascinating history of this Grade I Listed Queen Anne house. Learn about its owners, tenants and visitors and their place in local society. During this weekend you will have the chance to discover areas of Fydell House that visitors don’t usually get to see. Visitors can…

Part of the Lincolnshire HODs Festival 2022 A walk through time in Mablethorpe taking in the historic High Street and Esplanade looking back to the origins and development of the town and looking forward to the future Town Deal projects funded by HM Government. Booklet Number: - Region: Mablethorpe Address: Station Sports Centre, Station Road,…

Part of the Lincolnshire HODs Festival 2022 A cloying smell, muddy village lanes and the sugar beet campaign! An exhibition exploring the ‘seed-to-sack’ processes and the impact of Brigg’s sugar factory on its staff, its sporting/social yesteryear, on local communities and landscape. Booklet Number: 4a Region: Brigg Address: Brigg Heritage Centre, 1st Floor, The Angel,…

Part of the Lincolnshire HODs Festival 2022 This substantial walk covers the historical shaping of the present South Common. Crossed by Roman Ermine Street with its roadside cemetery, the area became a very large medieval common, shared by local communities, extensively quarried, and a source of water for the Malandry Hospital and the Priory of…

Part of the Lincolnshire HODs Festival 2022 Visit this original canal company office to find displays and interactives telling the story of the Sleaford Navigation and the way it shaped the town. Booklet Number: 36d Region: Sleaford Address: Navigation House, Navigation Wharf, Carre Street, Sleaford. NG34 7TW. Follow signs for the National Centre for Craft…

Part of the Lincolnshire HODs Festival 2022 Cranwell Aviation Heritage Museum is a vibrant family-friendly site that focusses on the stories to be told about RAF Cranwell. For Heritage Open Days, we will be telling the story of Frank Whittle from his time as a cadet at Cranwell College to the exciting days of the…

Part of the Lincolnshire HODs Festival 2022 Time Trap museum at Grimsby Town Hall Visit the former prison cells of Grimsby Town Hall and uncover the Town’s colourful past. Over the two days, there will also be displays by the Great Grimsby Family History Group and the Councils Archives. In addition, Free Entry to the…

Part of the Lincolnshire HODs Festival 2022 Use the new Sleaford and the Villages Top Trumps cards to follow self-guided tours, three on foot and one by car, starting at the Sleaford Museum around the heritage locations described. With maps and graphic displays in the museum throughout Heritage Open Days. Trail guides, times and booking…

Part of the Lincolnshire HODs Festival 2022 Peat has been extracted from Crowle & Thorne Moors since at least Medieval times. In the late 19th century this became more industrialised and railways began to be used by the peat works. Come and find out about this important industry. We will be providing train rides throughout…

Part of the Lincolnshire HODs Festival 2022 St. Nicolas has been a feature of its local landscape for 800 years. Ever present as local structures rise and fall, and acting as a waypoint for travellers on land and on the nearby River Humber estuary. In common with many churches and before the advent of satellite…

Part of the Lincolnshire HODs Festival 2022 Join the Reconnecting Grantham project at Londonthorpe Woods and Bellmount this Heritage Open Days to learn about the history hidden within Grantham's woodland and experience the views from the first floor of Bellmount Tower, built in 1750. Access to and within Bellmount Tower is limited. Unpaved incline precedes…

Part of the Lincolnshire HODs Festival 2022 The museum has been collecting for over 300 years, this means we have a vast cabinet of curiosities to share with our visitors. Explore with us and see our wonderful collection of woad production tools and images from the last woad mill in Lincolnshire. Compare that to a…

Join us for Kirton History Weekend, as part of Heritage Open Days, for a walking tour of Kirton and The Old King’s Head. This is a Free tour as part of the Heritage Open Days Festival but Booking is essential as places are limited on each tour - please book through our shop. Tours are…

'Pretty Mechanical Toys' - The birth of the Tank. Join us, and Guy Edwards, online, for a fascinating talk. A talk on the birth of the British tank. From conception, through development and their use in the Great War (1916-1918). Tickets: £5 member / £8 non-member and can be bought from our online shop. If…

Learn and make your own corn dolly at our workshop. Join us, IN PERSON, for an interesting morning, learning how to make a Corn Dolly. You will be constructing a corn dolly called a Sunspray - this is a traditional Inca design that was made as a house protector. Tickets cost: Members £18/ Non-members £25…

Tarot Workshop Join us online, with Flange & Prong, for this interesting workshop. Shelley will guide you through the basic meanings of the cards and spreads before you are encouraged to dive into your intuition and connect deeply with the energy of Tarot, allowing yourself to deliver in depth and personal readings. Tickets: Members £10…

Join us, and Tom Lane, as he delivers an interesting online talk: Coastal Saltmaking in Lincolnshire. For almost three millennia salt was made on the coasts and in the adjacent salt marshes of Lincolnshire. This course aims to examine where and how the seawater was turned into salt. Moreover, we will question why salt was…

Researching C17th & C18th Lincolnshire – sources for local history Join us, online with John Manterfield as we celebrate ‘Local & Community History Month’. This talk looks at possible research scenarios in terms of specific communities, particular buildings and family history in the period before Civil Registration and before Census Returns.  It explores the wide range…

Join us, IN PERSON, with Laurence White of Shedtime, at our newly renovated venue, The Old King’s Head. On your taster leathermaking session, you will get hands on to practice decoration including stamping and dye before making a journal cover. You will make your own design and use a variety of new starter techniques. Members £25…

Thanks to funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and part of The Old King’s Head Project, Heritage Lincolnshire have been working with some incredible volunteers to develop a Walking Tour for you to join us on to explore and discover Kirton and The Old King’s Head. Join us as we give guided talks around…

Join us, IN PERSON, with Laurence White of Shedtime, at our newly renovated venue, The Old King’s Head. Over the full day you will get hands on to learn about different types of leather, practice traditional skills and techniques of working with leather and produce your own project piece that is achievable in the course time.…

Join us, IN PERSON, at our newly brought-back-to-life venue, The Old King’s Head in Kirton. A beginners traditional Stained Glass course using the lead came technique run by Claire Hart. You will choose a design from a selection of pre drawn patterns, and then learn how to cut the coloured glass and shape it accurately…

Join us, IN PERSON, at our newly brought-back-to-life venue, The Old King’s Head in Kirton. An introduction to Stained Glass using the Tiffany Copper Foil technique. Students will learn how to cut the coloured glass and shape it accurately before wrapping its edges in copper foil and soldering it together to make colourful suncatchers.  This…

Join Hannah, who oversaw the restoration of The Old King’s Head, as she delivers  ‘The Old King’s Head, Kirton; The Transformation Story’. This is an online talk. Tickets: Members £5 / Non-members £7 Tickets can be bought from our shop and if this isn’t the first time you’ve paid more why don’t you become a member and start…

The Crusades to the Near East, 1095-1187 Join us, online, as we welcome back Dr Nic Morton with his new series of talks. The First Crusade and the Origins of Crusading, 1095-1099 This talk tackles some of the most contentious and longstanding debates surrounding the First Crusade and the origins of crusading in the late…

Join us, online with Carol Ann Lloyd as we learn about the Tudors. Tickets: Members £5 / Non-members £8. A discounted ticket for all talks in this series is also available. Tickets can be bought from our shop and if this isn’t the first time you’ve paid more why don’t you become a member and start saving?

External Design ideas to promote accessibility  Join us for an online talk. This session will take an in-depth look at the external environments that surround our historic and heritage assets, indeed some sites are purely an external entity. Here we will look at solutions to access barriers and provides guidance on achieving a balance between…

Join us, IN PERSON, at our newly brought-back-to-life venue, The Old King’s Head in Kirton. On this course you will learn the heritage craft of wet felting using the resist technique, you will learn how the wool felts and what other fibres you can use with the wool as embellishment. Everyone will go home with…

The Heritage Lincolnshire Archaeology Club! Join our Heritage Lincolnshire Archaeology Club, for our Autumn Term starting in September. Age: 8-16 Using artefacts, they will explore the stories of people who have come and gone from Lincolnshire over the last 2,000 years and learn the skills needed to tell their story. Tickets can be bought from…

Join us, and Fenland Natural Health, for this fascinating morning. We love Autumn, the season of berries, hips and haws, which have so many health benefits. In this workshop we will learn about traditional remedies that can set us up to deal with the colder months. We will start off by discussing the role and…

Thanks to funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and part of The Old King’s Head Project, Heritage Lincolnshire have been working with some incredible volunteers to develop a Walking Tour for you to join us on to explore and discover Kirton and The Old King’s Head. Join us as we give guided talks around…

Sympathetic magic workshop Join us online, with Flange & Prong, for this interesting workshop. Following on from our talk, its time to have a quick recap of what sympathetic magic is and get casting! We will demonstrate how to build and perform the spells, and be available to answer any questions you may have! Tickets:…