This interdisciplinary conference, organised by the Society for Lincolnshire History & Archaeology (SLHA) aims to explore the diversity of Lincolnshire’s landscape and to examine the changing ways over time in which it carries the imprint of its human inhabitants. Partly inspired by W.G. Hoskins’ ground-breaking The Making of the English Landscape, published 70 years ago, in 1955, the conference allows aspects of the SLHA’s interests across a variety of subject areas to be showcased – including archaeology, local history, industrial archaeology, and the recording of vernacular buildings.

Talks will include:

Lincolnshire’s watery landscapes

The lost creeks of the coastal marshes and their ports. By Caitlin Green

Losers may speak, and this is Truth without Scandalum Magnatum: the struggle against noble power and privilege to drain the Lindsey Level By Thomas Brown-Warr

Fenland, drainage and enclosure in the Boston district’ By Neil Wright

Improving’ Lincolnshire’s rural landscapes

Aristocratic landscapes in Lincolnshire By Charles Rawding

Loan capital for landlord improvements on Lincolnshire estates in the second half of the nineteenth century By Shirley Brook,

The tools that make the English landscape By Kate Genever with Paul Genever

The medieval Lincolnshire townscape

The Lincolnshire township – the building block for the high medieval landscape By Mark Gardiner,

Dwelling in Lincolnshire landscapes – buildings and their dwellingscapes By Jenne Pape

Recording and planning evolving Lincolnshire townscapes

The towns of Lincolnshire: a recent survey By Ian George

Exploring an evolving streetscape: the case of Gainsborough By Abigail Buckland,

Town planning and the creation of suburbia By Rob Wheeler