Aspects of Lincoln
Subtitle: discovering local history
By: edited by Andrew Walker
Publisher: Wharncliffe Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: South Yorkshire, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9781473836136; 9781903425046
Subjects: Cities and towns
Description: Aspects of Lincoln, is the first in the widely acclaimed Aspects series to feature the City of Lincoln. However the Aspects series now extends from the east and west Midlands, up to Lancaster in the north-west and the north Yorkshire coast in the east. Aspects of Lincoln, is a multi author book containing 12 pinpoint historical essays covering such diverse subjects as: Cinemas and Cinema Going in 20th Century Lincoln, Getting Drunk in 17th Century Lincoln, the story of Emily Gilbert, motoring pioneer and first woman sheriff of Lincoln. No story of Lincoln would be complete without Royal Air For.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Dark Skies: Royal Air Force Bomber Command in Lincolnshire; Chapter 2: Remembering those in Lincoln's Prisons, 1774-1872; Chapter 3: Lincoln's town Crier; Chapter 4: Getting Drunk in Seventeenth Lincoln; Chapter 5: Visualising Lincoln, the work of Peter De Wint; Chapter 6: 'A Citizen of No Mean City' Emily Gilbert 1872-1959: Motoring And First woman Sheriff of Lincoln; Chapter 7: The Middle Classes in Victorian Lincoln; Chapter 8: Thomas Watson: The Last Roman Catholic Bishop of Lincoln.; title: Chapter 9: Technical Education for Lincoln 'A Citizens' University'Chapter 10: An 'Edge-Land': The Development Witham Valley East of Canwick; Chapter 11: Pleasure Excursions From Lincoln 1846-1914; Chapter 12: Lincoln'S Cinemas in the Twentieth Century; Contributors; Index.