Tennyson
Lincolnshire holds the most significant collection on Alfred Tennyson in the world. The Lincs to the Past team have gathered together some of the jewels of the collection for your enjoyment.
Alfred Tennyson Background
Alfred Tennyson was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, on 6 August 1809.
Tennyson, Blake and the Book of Job
Tennyson and Blake
Charge of the Light Brigade
One of Tennyson’s most famous poems. Bugle courtesy of the Queen’ Royal Lancers Museum
In Memoriam - The Manuscript
In Memoriam A.H.H. - The Lincoln Manuscript
In Memoriam
The most popular poem of the 19th Century
Tennyson in Art
The Moxon Illustrated Edition of Tennyson’s Poems
Tennyson, Photography and Julia Margaret Cameron
A 19thC pioneer photographer
Cartomania
Cartes de Visite in the Tennyson Research Centre, by Karen Horsley
How Pleasant to Know Mr Lear!
Tennyson Family Friend
Learical Tennysons
This exhibition is the result of an examination of the entire correspondence (around 200 letters) between Edward Lear (1812-1888) and the Tennyson family.