The Making of the Lincolnshire Landscape Conference
Saturday 21st June, 2025.
Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln.
Call for papers
This interdisciplinary conference aims to explore the diversity of Lincolnshire’s landscape and to explore 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 will enable 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.
We invite papers on areas such as the following, echoing the content of Hoskins’ work, all of course related to the historic county of Lincolnshire:
- The pre-Roman landscape
- The Roman landscape
- Villages and their fields
- The shape of villages
- Buildings in the medieval landscape
- The abandonment of villages
- Enclosure of the fields – hedgerows, roads and farm buildings
- Taming of the fens
- Managing a changing coastline
- Industrialisation and the landscape
- The landscape of towns
- Artistic and literary representations of the Lincolnshire landscape
- Plotting Lincolnshire landscape changes and challenges since Hoskins
Paper proposals (of up to 350 words) should be sent to Andrew Walker by Friday 7 March 2025.
