FRIDAY 8TH APRIL 2016 AT 2:30PM 

23rd APRIL 2016 

Lincoln Record Society Spring Conference, Saturday 23 April 2016
Lincolnshire Agriculture, Rural Life and Labour
University of Lincoln

10.00-10.20                        
Tea/coffee and registration

10.20-10.30
Introduction: President of LRS, Professor David Stocker
 
10.30-12.00
Session 1: Trade and Finance in Medieval and Early-Modern Rural Lincolnshire
Alan Kissane and Paul Dryburgh, ‘The Wool Trade and Merchants: The Evidence of: Lincolnshire, 1279-1311’

Judith Spicksley, ‘Working and Lending: The Financial and Occupational, Activities of Single Women in Rural Lincolnshire in the Seventeenth Century’

12.00-1.00     
Lunch
 
1.00-2.30     
Session 2: Agricultural Innovation in Lincolnshire in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
 Shirley Brook ‘The Social Networks and Information Environment of Nineteenth-Century High Farming in Lincolnshire’

Ken Redmore ‘A Lincolnshire Threshing Contractor’

Abi Hunt,  ‘“My Father Wasn’t Really Interested in Machinery”: New Perspectives on the Modernisation of Agriculture in Twentieth-Century Lincolnshire’

2.30-3.00   
Tea

3.00-4.30     
Session 3: Rural and Suburban Lincolnshire Life in the Later Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Centuries
Andrew Walker  ‘Highly-Prized Labour? Rewarding Lincolnshire Rural Workers on the Agricultural Showground, 1869-1939’

Andrew Jackson ‘Farming life in Lincolnshire Before the First World War: The Poetry of Bernard Samuel Gilbert’

Rob Wheeler ‘The Death of a Rural Parish: The Suburbanisation of Boultham’