The Little History of Lincolnshire

From civil wars to cod wars, Lincolnshire is no stranger to historical upheaval. The stories in this book follow the pre-Roman, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Danish, Norman and Dutch people who carved a manageable landscape from a wild county of wetlands and wolds.

The Little Book of Lincolnshire recounts the events that made Lincolnshire the jewel in England’s agricultural crown, relating how a colourful procession of pirates, monarchs, artists, engineers and hucksters brought wealth and despair in equal measure. The story begins with Neolithic burial mounds and ends with the Humber Bridge, even tackling the vexed question of why Lincolnshire people are called Yellowbellies along the way.

PAUL SULLIVAN has been a writer and editor since graduating in English language and literature. He works with websites and blogs to popular books and academic papers, local history and folklore being his specialist areas. He compiled and presented festivals and customs weekly guides for BBC Radio in the 1990s, leading to the acclaimed book Maypoles, Martyrs and Mayhem (Bloomsbury). He has written thirteen books in total, including nine for The History Press.

• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1 From Prehistory to the Romans
• 2 Anglo-Danish Lincolnshire
• 3 The Normans: From Conquest to Anarchy
• 4 The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: Wool and Guilds
• 5 The Plantagenets at War
• 6 Tudor Lincolnshire: Religious Turmoil
• 7 The Stuarts: War, Poverty and Puritans
• 8 The Eighteenth Century: Jacobites and Georgians
• 9 The Nineteenth Century: Feasts, Farms and Ferries
• 10 The Twentieth Century: War and Change
• Bibliography

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