Conferences

Ut Pictura Poesis: An evening of Poetry, Art and Art History

Hosted by the School of History and Heritage     The celebration of Black History Month 2020, at the University of Lincoln (UK), on 2 October, was a...

Hitler’s Secret Agents: The Gestapo Spy Network, 1933-45

  By Bethany Scard When you are faced with life or death, do you do everything you can to survive, or do you go to your grave with...

Thomas Becket as a medieval Jedi Knight

by Bethany Scard   2020 marks the 850th anniversary of the death of Thomas Becket and the 800th anniversary of moving his body to his new shrine in...

Conference: Museums, Collections and Conflict

by Dr Kate Hill In July I was part of the organising group (the Museums and Galleries History Group, including Dr Sarah Longair) for a conference on Museums,...

Talking medieval Iberia in Brazil

by Dr Jamie Wood jwood@lincoln.ac.uk In April, over the Easter break, I was lucky to be invited to give a couple of talks about my research on early...

Urban History 2017

by Dr James Greenhalgh jgreenhalgh@lincoln.ac.uk  As I am fond of telling my third year urban history students, for the last two centuries the process of urbanisation – namely,...

Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2017

by Dr Chris O’Rourke corourke@lincoln.ac.uk / @ChrisORourke1 The Society for Cinema and Media Studies, or SCMS, had its annual conference this year in Chicago at the massive Fairmont hotel...