Lincoln Record Society Accounts 2011

The Lincoln Record Society has begun sponsoring an annual award of £100, and three years’ membership of the Society, for the best MA Dissertation written by a student of Historical Studies at the University of Lincoln. The Society is delighted to announce that the first winner of this award for 2009/10 is Dan Ellin for his Dissertation “Not Yet Diagnosed Neurotic or Lack of Moral Fibre? The Treatment of Neuropsychiatric Casualties in Bomber Command during the Second World War”.

The officers of the Society would like to offer their warmest congratulations to Dan.

Volume 98, Building a Railway: Bourne to Saxby edited by Stewart Squires and Ken Hollamby, has won the 2010 Association for Industrial Archaeology Annual Award for Best Occasional Publication. The Society offers its warmest congratulations to the editors. The Award will be presented to Mr. Hollamby at the AIA Annual Conference at Falmouth in September 2010.

The Lincoln Record Society is proud to launch our new website and archive of books!

You can access all 100 volumes via the website’s search zone.

Vol. 98 Building a Railway: Bourne to Saxby was proclaimed Book of the Month in the April edition of The Railway Magazine which, for a third year running, is Britain’s top-selling rail title.

For the second year the Lincoln Record Society will be supporting the Dulcie Duke Award at Bishop Grossteste University College. The winner will receive a cheque for £50 and three years membership of the Society. The award will be presented on Tuesday May 18th at the Jim Johnston Memorial Lecture.

As of April 2010 the following volumes are now back in print:

Vol. 55 The Building Accounts of Tattershall Castle 1434-1472.
Paperback with redesigned cover. £25

Vol. 92 Historic Town Plans of Lincoln 1610-1920. Hardback: £30