Culture Archive
(April 2012)

1 April 2012

All the stage’s a world

Theatre-goers are in for a treat this summer when the Stamford Shakespeare Company takes to the stage for its thirty-sixth season at Rutland Open Air Theatre with a wonderful new program of events. The group, which has been based at Tolethorpe Hall since it bought the property in 1977, promises something for everyone with its Read more…

Blood Cries Afar

by Sean McGlynn RRP £20 It is little known that a second Norman Conquest almost took place in England in the early part of the thirteenth century. What’s more, Lincoln played a central role in securing the country for Henry III. In his latest book, ‘Blood Cries Afar’, author and lecturer Sean McGlynn paints a Read more…

The bigger picture

Steffie Shields’s reflections on spring in the landscape of the Wolds, thanks to Hockney No fast broadband, true, but we are lucky to live in a rural shire. In my humble opinion, it is far more important to stay connected, to be rooted to land, watching the changing season up hill and down dale. Recently Read more…