Archives Open Day
Come along to our annual archives open day to find out more about the history of your town. Our experts will be on hand with original artefacts and will be […]
Come along to our annual archives open day to find out more about the history of your town. Our experts will be on hand with original artefacts and will be […]
Public disapproval used to take a very visible and audible form: "ran - tanning" or "riding the stang" consisted of a crowd gathering outside someone's house, banging pots and pans […]
John Byng was a sometimes irascible diarist who documented his travels on horseback throughout Great Britain between 1781 and 1794. His journeys across Lincolnshire include several testy and irritable descriptions […]
William Kirkham Morton was a printer and stationer in Horncastle who went on to found the Horncastle News. The first edition of our local nespaper was printed in 1885. Robert […]
From cobbler to state executioner: hear the extraordinary story of how a local man offered his services to the national justice system in Victorian Britain and Ireland. Convinced that his […]
Save the date! Horncastle’s community arts and heritage celebration is back for the fourth year this August, with a range of activities and events taking place in the town centre, […]