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Lincoln Book Festival: An evening with the Georgians and Victorians

October 4th, 2014 | by The Omnivore

Hannah Grieg on The Beau Monde Caricatured for extravagance, vanity, scandal and gossip, 18th century fashionable society had a reputation

Lincoln Book Festival: The sixties and all that

October 3rd, 2014 | by The Omnivore

Jenny Boyd on her adventures through the 60s They say if you remember the sixties you can’t have been there –

Lincoln Book Festival: King and Parliament

October 2nd, 2014 | by The Omnivore

Chris Bryant MP in conversation with Lord Radice about the history of Parliament Told through the lives of the myriad MPs,

Lincoln Book Festival: The American Connection

October 1st, 2014 | by The Omnivore

Clive Aslet on the American influence on English country life Nothing seems more British than a house like Cliveden or Leeds Castle

Lincoln Book Festival: The Power of Plants and Gardens

September 30th, 2014 | by The Omnivore

Margaret Willes on the cottage garden – fact and fiction Margaret unearths lush gardens outside workers cottages and horticultural miracles in blackened

Lincoln Book Festival: Lincolnshire Lads who changed the world

September 29th, 2014 | by The Omnivore

Sarah Dry on the legacy of ISAAC NEWTON When Newton died in 1727 without a will, he left a wealth of papers that

Lincoln Book Festival: William Dalrymple on Return of a King

October 5th, 2013 | by The Omnivore

Bestselling and prize-winning historian and travel author, Dalrymple has enthralled readers since his writing debut. In his latest book the

Lincoln Book Festival: Con Coughlin on Churchill’s First War

October 5th, 2013 | by The Omnivore

Con Coughlin on Churchill’s First War: young Winston and the fight against the Taliban A dramatic piece of military history which

Lincoln Book Festival: Tracy Borman on The Witches of Belvoir

October 4th, 2013 | by The Omnivore

Lincolnshire-born author has a local launch for her new book about witchcraft in Jacobean England – the witches who feature

Lincoln Book Festival: Julie Summers on Jambusters

October 4th, 2013 | by The Omnivore

Unpaid, unsung, to a large extent uncomplaining, these women quietly and often with humour, made the countryside tick during World

Lincoln Book Festival: Sarah Gristwood, Richard Buckley and John Ashdown-Hill

October 3rd, 2013 | by The Omnivore

Sarah Gristwood author of Blood Sisters: The women behind the Wars of the Roses – best-selling Tudor biographer and commentator on royal affairs

Lincoln Book Festival: Charles Sebag Montefiore on The British as Collectors

October 2nd, 2013 | by The Omnivore

Charles Sebag Montefiore on The British as Collectors: from the Tudors to the Present (co-authored with James Stourton) Charles Sebag-Montefiore has spent

Lincoln Book Festival: A. N. Wilson in conversation with Gil Darby

October 2nd, 2013 | by The Omnivore

A N Wilson in conversation with Gil Darby A prolific and eclectic author and newspaper columnist, A N Wilson is

Lincoln Book Festival: Diane Atkinson on The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton

October 1st, 2013 | by The Omnivore

Diane Atkinson on The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton Caroline Norton was accused by her husband of ‘a criminal conversation’ (adultery)

Lincoln Book Festival: Richard Davenport-Hines on sex, class and power in the age of Profumo

October 1st, 2013 | by The Omnivore

Richard Davenport-Hines on An English Affair: sex, class and power in the age of Profumo Undoubtedly the biggest British political scandal of

Lincoln Book Festival: Giles Milton on how British spies thwarted Lenin’s global plan

September 30th, 2013 | by The Omnivore

Giles Milton Russian Roulette – A Deadly Game: how British spies thwarted Lenin’s global plan Giles is author of eight works

Lincoln Book Festival: James Fergusson on The Most Dangerous Place on Earth