SLHA, Lincoln – Explorers and Innovators Conference

Name: SLHA, Lincoln – Explorers and Innovators Conference
Start: 2025-09-06
End: 2025-09-06

Saturday 6^th September 2025 from 10.00am – 4.30pm

Society for Lincolnshire History & Archaeology

Walton Academy, Harlaxton Rd, Grantham NG31 7JR

Explorers and Innovators

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

Admission £32.00 including lunch. £25.00 for SLHA members. Pre-booking essential

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