Exhibitions

Lincolnshires museums archives and libraries are the gateway to a rich cultural heritage. The Lincs to the Past team have created an exciting range of exhibitions to help you find out more and to showcase our treasures.

Archives
Lincolnshire Archives cares for serveral miles of historical documents.
Famous People
Margaret Thatcher, Isaac Newton, Tennyson and Joseph Banks have all had the pleasure of living in Lincolnshire.
Historic Environment Record
Including monuments
Lincolnshire Asylums: The Treatment of Mental Health Issues
The Lawn Hospital, Lincoln and St John’s Hospital, Bracebridge Heath
Lincolnshire at War
Lincolnshire has a long and proud military history including at one time it’s own regiment.
Lincs Through the Ages
The Lincs to the Past Team bring the Lincs of the past to life.
Places
We have our own New York, Boston & Whaplode Drove… Find out more about Lincolnshire places in the past.
Stories of Steam and Oil
Our industrial heritage
Tennyson
Lincolnshire holds the most significant collection on Alfred Tennyson in the world.
The Nattes Drawings
Views in Lincolnshire: The Nattes Drawings in the Joseph Banks Collection.
Treasures
This exhibition showcases some of the weird and wonderful treasures within the County’s collections.

Customer Notice: Viewing images and Online Ordering

As of January 2021, Adobe Flash Player is no longer supported and therefore browsers are disabling and blocking the software for security reasons. Lincs to the Past can still be used as a catalogue to search our collections for documents of interest, but you will be unable to browse through our digital image collections or view photographs. We are aware of this issue, and work is underway to make the contents of Lincs to the Past available by other means. We aim to complete this project during Summer 2021.

Thousands of object records are still available to view on the website and images can be ordered offline. For instructions on how to place an order please visit the 'Buy Images' page. Please do not use the online ordering system. For any queries about ordering digital images please email archive.copies@lincolnshire.gov.uk

Members of Lincolnshire Libraries can access a number of online that may be of use. For more information please visit Lincolnshire Libraries. We apologise to customers for any inconvenience caused.

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About Us

Lincs to the Past is a site that contains hundreds of thousands of records covering items held in Lincolnshire’s Historic Environment Record, Archives, Libraries, Museums and Tennyson Research Centre.

Its search engine provides a single place from which to search through the catalogues of the cultural heritage collections held across Lincolnshire.

This is an ongoing project, and additional entries and images will be added regularly.

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What We Can Do For You

By creating an account with Lincs to the Past you can create your own personal archive by saving your searches, images and records into a private area.

Those people who create an account will also be able to buy copies of images online.

You can also participate in the site by adding comments and tags to records.