Society for Lincolnshire History & Archaeology – Explorers and Innovators.

Saturday 6th September, 2025.

10:00am – 4:30pm.

Walton Academy, Harlaxton Road,
Grantham
NG31 7JR
.

£32.00 including lunch. £25.00 for SLHA members.
Full Day Conference
Talks will include:
- Welcome by Mark Acton, Chair of the Local History Team.
- George Bass: Eighteenth century Explorer by Penny Herdman.
- Sir Joseph Banks: Agrarian to Industrialist by Paul Scott.
- Arthur Storer – America’s First Colonial Astronomer by Ruth Crook.
- Richard Hill (1795-1892) Abolitionist and Naturalist Presented by Prof. Heather Hughes.
- Anne Hutchinson and Her Lincolnshire Friends: by Adrian Gray.
- Lincolnshire Explorers and Innovators in Stories, Music by Tom Lane, Nigel Creasey and Terri Clarke.
More information here
Society for Lincolnshire History & Archaeology (SLHA)
Jews’ Court
2-3 Steep Hill, Lincoln LN2 1LS
www.slha.org.uk