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Lincoln Book Festival Launches 2026 Flash Fiction Competition
We have followed the advice of HM Government and have postponed this year’s festival….HOWEVER…. If…
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COVID-19
We have followed the advice of HM Government and have postponed this year’s festival….HOWEVER…. If…
Victorian Voices #2: The Brontë Sisters
In the latest blog in our Victorian Voices blog series, Lincoln Book Festival Trust Chair,…
Understanding the Gunpowder Plot
Please to remember the 5th of November, Gunpowder, Treason and Plot. Why? Claudia Capancioni of…
An Evening of Anarchy?
“What a brilliant combination of speakers! Was it your idea?” How lovely to be asked…
Sisters of the Revolution
The self confessed oldest member of our audience expressed her regret that the road toward…
Our Evening with Michael Morpurgo
The buzz in the sold out auditorium of Lincoln Drill Hall was electric and exploded…
Explosive New Worlds – the second evening of…
A curious juxtaposition? To place one after another a journey through space-time and a journey…
Festival Launch
Some 75 people of all ages came along to the Collection for the launch of…
Gothic Romance, Saints and Pre-Raphaelites at the 2017…
The Mona Lisa and the Pre-Raphaelites; Victorian Body Parts and The mysterious Mr Black and…
History at the 2017 Festival – a personal…
I unashamedly relish David Starkey’s irreverence, and how great to see teenage boys queueing to…
Planning the 2017 Festival
The Lincoln Book Festival emerged in the early summer from a long winter, paralleling the blossoming of…
Risk and Creativity
Over five days in September 2016 I saw four utterly contrasting performances here in Lincoln.…
This summer of Lincoln Festivals: how has it…
April seems a distant memory with that first chance to see the new home of…
Would one super festival be a better stage…
The Lincoln year is punctuated by festivals of one kind or another; my question is…
