After much work I have now published the full version of my book "Marsh Fen and Town South Lincolnshire and Beyond". It is a hard back book just under A4 size consisting of 450 pages, over 250,000 words and over 200 pictures and illustrations.

An insight into the working life and accomodation in the 19th Century Lincolnshire Fens

Growing crops in a rotation is an old method of managing soil fertility that can be seen in Roman times.  However, the development of...

In 1890 the industry of Lincolnshire was described thus: “Lincolnshire being almost wholly an agricultural county the manufactures are,...

Few realise that he wrote and sold the best-selling guitar playing book of its day that outsold Bert Weedon's famous, " Play in a Day".

Protesting farmers just don't get it. They need to look at the winners.

Possibly one the the greatest advocates of conservation in 20th Century Lincolnshire.

They lie as thick as thieves, and they live like pigs.

What of my identity? It is interwoven between marsh, fen and town but the world changes.  My roots and ancestry is firmly in the Fens....

The local anger to this was huge and Professor Beard suffered an horrendous personal attack and an inappropriate backlash. In the meantime,

It is ironic that whilst typically being the driest area of the country in terms of rainfall the Fens of South Lincolnshire are also...

I have emphasized earlier that the countryside of The Wash and the Fens inland effectively serve large towns and cities. The fisherman...

Urban bias could be seen as an antidote to parochialism. But, like parochialism, urban bias can be bad thing as well as good. Urban bias...

The town centres of Spalding, Boston and Wisbech saw massive changes to their town centres dominated by a new generation of migrants.

Here I explain the reality of inheritance tax .   In 2007 I was outside my son’s school when I bumped into a local farmer – at least I...

Most farmers consider the statement a lie. Whether it is or not is to be proven. Here I examine a take on inheritance tax that may be a...

November 1930 saw the following announcement that was to herald further establishment of the food processing industry in Spalding hot on...

“Only the richest estates will pay – not small, family farms.” This is the repeated phrase parroted by the Chancellor and other Labour...

My experience with Inheritance Tax and especially with Farm Inheritance Tax Relief is that it appears to be applied inconsistently and...

In this second  post I will demonstrate how inheritance tax can affect a tenant farmer by referring to a real life example from my past...