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Volume 109

Stukeley and Stamford, Part 1 Cakes and Curiosity: the Sociable Antiquarian, 1710-1737

4 July 2021 by

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William Stukeley's antiquarian interest in his native Lincolnshire has not been widely noted. He is more often associated with his pioneering work on Stonehenge and Avebury, which systematically recorded the sites and their geographical context and began the process of preserving them from destruction. However, he was a keen Lincolnshire man, like his contemporaries Maurice Johnson (the founder of the Spalding Gentlemen's Society) and Sir Isaac Newton.
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Editors: Diana and Michael Honeybone

Publication Date: 2021 for membership year 2019-2020

Size: 235 x 155 mm

Language: English

Publisher: A Lincoln Record Society publication published by the Boydell Press an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3DF and of Boydell & Brewer Inc. 668 Mt Hope Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620-2731, USA

Website: www.boydellandbrewer.com

Printed & bound TJ Books Ltd., Padstow, Cornwall

This publication is printed on acid-free paper

ISBN: 978 1 910653 07 4

Content:

Contents, 1 page
List of Illustrations & Maps, 1 page
Acknowledgements, 1 page
Abbreviations, 1 page
William Stukeley: A Biographical Timeline, 2 pages
Introduction, 47 pages
Iter Oxoniense, 1710, 22 pages
Stanfordia Illustrata, 1735-6, 111 pages
Minutes of the Brazen Nose Society of Stamford, 1736-7 46 pages
Appendix 1: Major persons referred to in Stanford Illustrata, 22 pages
Appendix 2: Members of the Brazen Nose Society, 12 pages
Appendix 3: Stukeley’s tour of Stamford and district, September 1737, 4 pages
Appendix 4: A comment on Stukeley’s visit to Dorchester on Thames, 3 pages
Bibliography, 7 pages
Index of People and Places, 8 pages
Index of Subjects, 4 pages

William Stukeley's antiquarian interest in his native Lincolnshire has not been widely noted. He is more often associated with his pioneering work on Stonehenge and Avebury, which systematically recorded the sites and their geographical context and began the process of preserving them from destruction. However, he was a keen Lincolnshire man, like his contemporaries Maurice Johnson (the founder of the Spalding Gentlemen's Society) and Sir Isaac Newton.

This volume illuminates Stukeley's fascination with South Lincolnshire, especially the town of Stamford. It was characteristic of Stukeley that he became deeply involved with anywhere he lived, first investigating its history and attempting to find remnants of it in the existing buildings around him, then setting up social groups to bring together like-minded local people with the intention of further study. The book brings together three texts from the early part of the career of William Stukeley, largely relating to the years he spent in the town of Stamford: the Iter Oxoniense (1710), Stanfordia Illustrata (1735-6) and the minute book of the Brazen Nose Society (1736-7). These are now brought together for the first time and presented in their complete form, with introduction and notes.
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