Spalding Gentlemen’s Society
HOD 2024 – Routes, Networks and Connections Through the Archive.
Spalding Gentlemen's Society Broad Street, Spalding, United KingdomPart of the Lincolnshire HODs Festival 2024 The museum is bursting with lots of rarely seen objects so come see us and sample a small selection on offer. Now one of only two Designated Original Collections in Lincolnshire, we are inviting you to come and share some of this amazing collection before it is moved…
HOD – The Adventures of Stukeley
Spalding Gentlemen's Society Broad Street, Spalding, United KingdomPart of the Lincolnshire HODs Festival 2023 Founded 1710, Spalding Gentlemen’s Society, Britain’s oldest surviving provincial learned society. Todays dedicated volunteers collate and conserve the collection ensuring its future survival. William Stukeley was born in Holbeach and spent a lot of his life travelling around Britain on horseback pursuing his archaeological interests. A prominent member…
HODs – Woad to Four Colour Printing: Woad Production and Jakob Le Blon
Spalding Gentlemen's Society Broad Street, Spalding, United KingdomPart 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…