The City of Lincoln During and After the English Civil Wars

MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN WEEK 2025: Expanding our Horizons

The City of Lincoln During and After the English Civil Wars (Online Talk)

Thursday 10 April, 6pm-7pm – on Zoom
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Speaker: Jon Fitzgibbons (University of Lincoln)

Abstract:

In this talk, Dr Jon Fitzgibbons will explain the role played by Lincoln during England’s Civil Wars (1642-1651). Besides exploring the thorny question of whether Lincoln was Royalist or Parliamentarian, he will explain why the city came to be entangled in the conflict and how it ended up changing sides on no fewer than six occasions. The talk will retell the dramatic stories of Lincoln’s destructive sieges and reveal what life was really like for people living in the city during the wars. It will also explore the war’s lasting legacies in Lincoln, including several enduring local myths and legends about the dastardly deeds of that arch-Roundhead, Oliver Cromwell.

Bio:

Dr Jon Fitzgibbons is a Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Lincoln. He completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford, and was previously a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge before moving to Lincoln in 2017. He has written two books on Oliver Cromwell and the political history of 1650s Britain and is currently completing a scholarly edition of the ‘lost’ memoirs of the Parliamentarian lawyer Bulstrode Whitelocke.

Story submitted by Renee Ward
rward@lincoln.ac.uk