Culture Archive
(November 2017)

1 November 2017

Jim Broadbent – still enjoying new roles

The next film that the internationally acclaimed Oscar-winning film star Jim Broadbent will appear in is Night in Hatton Garden, due for release in 2018. Born in the village of Holton cum Beckering in 1949, Jim Broadbent still lives in the county and is now considered one of Britain’s leading actors. For an upcoming film Read more…

Belton House and ‘Moondial’

Moondial, a children’s book written by Helen Cresswell, was jointly published in October 1987 by Faber and Faber and the National Trust. The story is set in 1985 Belton village and at Belton House. It features children from three different time periods – Minty of the 1980s, Tom from the 1860s and Sarah from the Read more…

Review of the reads – November 2017

Author Andrew Beardmore has published a hardback guide to the county, Lincolnshire: Unusual & Quirky. The book is a widely researched compilation of historical facts both conventional and strange. It includes around 450 photographs. Sleaford based author Michael Tanner has recently published The Demon: the biography of Victorian champion jockey George Fordham – whose exploits Read more…