Festival Programme

We are delighted to welcome back David Starkey to a Festival Fringe Event at Lincoln…

The Venue are very excited to be working in partnership with Lincoln Film Society for…

Award-winning young adult fiction author Melvin Burgess will open proceedings at this year’s Lincoln Book Festival as special guest speaker at the free-to-attend festival launch party.

An evening of Victorian obsessions, passions and distractions, from the darker side of 19th Century Britain through theories about the true identity of Jack the Ripper, to the lighter side in the boom in entertainment, arts and culture. Dress to impress (or depress) if you wish in your favourite Victorian inspired fashions!

There’s murder most foul in this two-part author event with Claire Harman on a true crime murder that shocked Victorian London, and the thrilling new novel by Ambrose Parry (aka Chris Brookmyre and Dr Marisa Haetzman) about the hunt for a killer in 1847 Edinburgh.

In this interactive writing workshop, participants are encouraged to produce creative work – postcards and letters – from a series of prompts and share their work with other people.

This two-part author event gets up close and personal with Queen Victoria, her subjects and acquaintances, as told through letters from the time. It also explores international affairs and the British Empire in the true stories of the Britons who set sail for India.

Enjoy tastes from the Tuscan kitchen of Janet Ross with Dr Claudia Capancioni, The Cheese Society and The Straw Collection.

Greats of Victorian literature fall into focus in this two-part afternoon event which explores the career of Alfred Tennyson and his relationship to Victoria and also reveals new research on the mysterious publisher who championed the brilliance of Charlotte Brontë.

Victorian society embraced art, literature and science. In this two-part author event audiences can learn more about the mercurial mathematician Ada Lovelace, daughter of ‘mad, bad’ Lord Byron, and the influential art critic John Ruskin, contemporary of great artists of the age like JMW Turner.

An event for families with interactive storytelling, creating a space poem and rocket making. Hosted by award-winning author Addy Farmer.

A talk revealing the remarkable true story of the Victorian rail magnates behind The Grand Crimean Central Railway – a feat of engineering that helped win the Crimean War.

Explore grand houses and ghostly goings-on in this two-part author event set around two new works of historical fiction – each with an enigmatic house at their story’s heart.