A talk for the Stamford Local History Society on 4th Dec 2026 by Trish Auciello

The story of a Listed Building and the battle to save it in the 1960s

In May 1907 the Public Library Committee produced a report

Printed by Dolby Brothers

Stamford Free Library was formally opened on 25th January 1906

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Shortages of regal coins in the last five hundred years

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Burghley House by Stamford Town

The Life of a Stamford Publican in 1851

Lecture for Stamford Museum's Winter Lecture Series in 1998

Number 1 St Mary's Place

Linked to a previous Article - Melbourn's Tied Houses

Frederick Dawson was in business for only two years, from 1854 to 1856

The use of the Stamford Manorial Court Rolls to construct a building’s history.

Research by Richard Asher

Town Bridge, Stamford

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Papers relating to the Stamford election of 1831

William Luff

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A closer look at the building central to the story of Stamford's medieval university

from the Stamford Institution to Bentley Street

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its significance within the Welland Valley and broader landscape

J M Blashfield's business on Wharf Road

Obstacles manned by the Home Guard

The site of a traitor's remains

When, where and how the Insitution was formed

A tax granted to the town by Edward I

Votes for women

Persecution of local Dissenters

A Victorian provincial bank

Henry IV, part 2, act 3, scene 2

Murder in a Lincolnshire town

Housing fit for heroes

A contested election in Stamford

A report of the opening of Stamford's bandstand

Local men fighting France

A lucky wartime escape

A prizewinning anti-war essay

A Victorian rural gas works

A hotly contested parliamentary election in Stamford

The decision of the Great Northern Railway to bypass the town

A permanent home on St Peter's Hill

An election and other happenings

A replacement for the hearth tax

A poet, and the pros and cons of bull-running

12C survey of local property

Five killed on training flight from Wittering

Local provisions in event of WWII air attack

Flemish exiles in WWI

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A list of available arms for the Hundred of Nesse

Stamford's relationship with Mary Tudor's government

Early history of the Burghley dynasty

From the Proceedings and Odinances of the Privy Council

Important local tax returns (1332-1524)

An alien merchant in Stamford in the 13C

Repairing one of Stamford's almshouses