Exploring Lincolnshire’s ‘Gilbert Country’, c.1910-1927

Bernard Samuel Gilbert was an outstanding author whose name is all but forgotten today. Gilbert was born in Billinghay in Lincolnshire in 1882 and was returned there for burial following his death in 1927. He wrote prolifically from around the age of thirty up until his death in 1945. Gilbert’s literature spans poetry, novels, plays, agriculture, political pamphlets and newspaper columns. He wrote of contemporary Lincolnshire and rural England, life and work on the land and country customs and beliefs.

The History of Lincolnshire Committee (part of the Society of Lincolnshire History and Archaeology) has recently published a new book, ‘Rural England Through War and Peace: The Literary Work of Lincolnshire’s Bernard Samuel Gilbert, 1882-1927’ by Andrew J. H. Jackson, Professor of Local, Regional and Landscape History at Bishop Grossetestse University in Lincoln. The publication will be available for sale after the talk.

Host or Publisher Society for Lincolnshire History & Archaeology (SLHA)