Lincolnshire / February / Ambient 4

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Exquisite watercolour from Serena Beeley in Lincolnshire, UK... 'Alcedo Atthis'.

Thank you so much Serena for donating your art to and helping support patients with Leukaemia!

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Before Enclosure of the fenlands, people of the Carrland in Lincolnshire used to use opium (as white poppy tea) to treat malaria in adults, children & livestock. It’s said that opium dreams & malaria fevers explain the very strange tales that come from there

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Artist Spotlight: Joanna Pass!
We're supporting our local and independent artists this new year and this week the spotlight falls on Joanna Pass's wonderful Lincolnshire wildlife!

See more on our website now:
https://t.co/3zOv5ChBuY

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1731, Lincolnshire schoolmaster Stephen Harrison is taken ill at dinner 'which it's thought was occasioned by a piece of a gizzard of a goose which he swallowed too hastily, & expired immediately'

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11 October 1643 was the Battle of Winceby in Lincolnshire, where Parliamentary forces under Sir Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell defeated Sir John Henderson. As well as helping secure Lincolnshire, it started a partnership which would win the First

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9 October 1643 Parliamentary forces under the Earl of Manchester, Sir Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell were besieging Bolingbroke Castle in Lincolnshire.

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If you’re the competitive sort (I’m not!) You can join and add a notification that you heard about it from me. I’m currently 2nd in the small business category, now that I’ve given up my low paid cycling job! 🏆#lincsconnect

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'The thre son[n]es of Noe dyuyded þe warld in þre p[ar]tes....' &
'The cyte of Ierusalem standes fayr emange hylles'

BL Add MS 37049; 1460-1500; A Carthusian miscellany of poems; a Yorkshire or Lincolnshire Carthusian monastery; ff.2v,3r
https://t.co/HbEq6NQdwO

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Two superb prints left of local Lincolnshire church 10x8 inch only £15 each - Do let me know if interested, this is a one-off print run

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The stunning lime trees are just beginning to show their autumn colours

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