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black and white oval-shaped portrait of Henry Baker Tristram from 1878,

Lincoln Unlocked

30 Jun 2025

Henry Baker Tristram: Cleric, Ornithologist, Travel Writer, and Lincoln Alumnus

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Mike Hawkins speaking to a group of staff and students gathered around him in Front Quad

Buildings

12 Jun 2025

Unlocking the Gardens

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Headshot of Roel Konijdendijk, a man in a blue suit.

Interest

9 Apr 2025

An Ancient Historian at the Movies

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Mike Hawkins holding award

College Life

14 Mar 2025

A Day in the Life: Mike Hawkins, Head Gardener

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Beckis Cooper performing as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing during an outdoor theatre production. She wears an elegant cream and gold Renaissance-style dress with a green cloak and a decorative mask on her head. Her expressive gesture and animated facial expression convey confidence and wit. Behind her, a male actor dressed in rich period costume smiles, with colorful bunting strung in the background, suggesting a festive setting.

Interest

13 Mar 2025

Beckis Cooper: From Lincoln to the Stage

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Oil on canvas portrait of Lillian Wald resting her arm on a green surface

Interest

6 Mar 2025

Nurse, activist and diplomat: The international relations of Lillian Wald

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Close-up of the glass bottom of an LCBC tankard

Interest

10 Dec 2024

An Unusual Tale: The International Adventures of the LCBC Tankard

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papers from the Lincoln archive

Lincoln Unlocked

29 Oct 2024

The History of Lincoln Fundraising: A look at the Anglo-Norman Charters in the Lincoln Archives

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red admiral butterfly resting on a Dahlia leaf

Sustainability

23 Sep 2024

Biodiversity and our Gardens in Autumn

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Black and white photographs of horse and rider in motion

Interest

19 Aug 2024

Resurrecting the Science Fiction of a Nineteenth-Century Lincolnite

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Photo of a page from an original Kafka manuscript

Interest

15 Jul 2024

How the Kafka Manuscripts came to the Bodleian: A Lincoln connection

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Australian Postage Stamp featuring Baldwin Spencer in the middle

Lincoln Unlocked

4 Jul 2024

Sir Baldwin Spencer, Anthropologist, Biologist, and Lincoln’s Forgotten Fellow

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Photo of Adam Camilletti wearing a pale pink shirt against a black background. The podcast logo is in the top left corner.

Alumni

21 Jun 2024

The Future Unleashed - Adam Camilletti on the future of space exploration

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Photo of Lynn Shepherd wearing a blue shirt, standing against a black background

Alumni

14 Jun 2024

The Future Unleashed - alumna Lynn Shepherd discusses the future of the novel

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Headshot of David Walcott

Alumni

7 Jun 2024

The Future Unleashed - David Walcott on the future of global health

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Greyscale headshot of Emily Mortimer

Alumni

4 Jun 2024

Alumna Emily Mortimer discusses the Future of Entertainment

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Posed black and white photo of the Lincoln cross country team in 1954

Alumni

16 Apr 2024

An Evening in May: An alumnus' eyewitness account of Roger Bannister's 4-minute mile

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Photo of Cosmos bipinnatum ‘Apricotta’

Sustainability

25 Oct 2023

Head Gardener's Blog, October 2023

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Photo of women's crew rowing on the river

College Life

29 Sep 2023

‘We are Lincoln!’ – A Porter’s Journey

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Photo of Azimuth draft

Lincoln Unlocked

26 Apr 2023

Beat Beyond

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Lincoln College Chapel

Interest

17 Apr 2023

Peter McCullough's John Donne Sermon

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Lutong Hao with the rest of the Blues team holding their award shields

Student Life

21 Mar 2023

Lutong Hao's Journey to the Women’s Blues Fencing Team

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Wildflowers in front of Library

Sustainability

21 Mar 2023

Sustainability at Lincoln and Green Impact

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Photo of new Compost bins

Sustainability

3 Mar 2023

Head Gardener's Blog - Winter 2023

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Page from Francesco Rivola’s 1633 Latin-Armenian dictionary, featuring the Armenian alphabet in Marshall’s hand, with the names of the letters and guides to pronunciation in columns to the right of it, on the front free endpaper.

Lincoln Unlocked

1 Dec 2022

Armenian books in a 17th century Oxford library

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A table in a fenced garden laid out for breakfast.

Interest

22 Nov 2022

Lincoln Alumna talks about work in Kherson, Ukraine

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Lincoln Concerts Hilary term card from 1946, with four events: Anglo-Saxon Minstrels by Prof. J.R.R. Tolkien, An Introduction to Contemporary Music by Dr. E.J. Wellesz, and two concerts

Lincoln Unlocked

16 Nov 2022

'Booking for Smoking Concerts Now': A Very Brief History of this Controversial Entertainment

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A group of children in red t-shirts and lifejackets rowing along a river in a dragon-boat, with a woman dressed in blue standing at the back of the boat with a large oar.

Student Life

2 Nov 2022

VacProj: A return to residentials!

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A mass of heart-shaped leaves almost totally silvered

Sustainability

5 Oct 2022

Gardeners' World - Autumn 2022

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Page from the Lincoln College Order Book, from Chapter Day , November 6, 1886, Among the notices is a list of college officers, including the statement 'Mr Alexander was elected Domestic Bursar'.

Interest

11 Jul 2022

Samuel Alexander (1859-1938): Lincoln College’s first Jewish Fellow

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A very long high set of bookshelves, with rows of old books

Lincoln Unlocked

6 Jun 2022

Lincoln Unlocked: The Bareham Collection

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Front page of a pamphlet titled 'Certain Propositions, whereby the distressed Protestants of Ireland, who have lost their goods, and personal estates there, by means of the present rebellion, may be relieved, if his Majesty and both Houses of Parliament shall so think fit (the title continues for several more lines). Printed in London for Joseph Hunscott on April 19, 1642.

Lincoln Unlocked

20 Mar 2022

Lincoln Unlocked: Refugees in Early Modern Europe

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An old book of Greek Gospels in the middle of a restoration process, depicted closed with several sheets of thin Japanese paper between the pages.

Lincoln Unlocked

17 Mar 2022

Lincoln Unlocked: Treasures restored

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Logo of Lincoln Unites - the general shape of the Lincoln College crest with added symbols - on the left are symbols of different religions in blue and white, in the middle is the rainbow Pride Flag, and on the right are a gender symbol, a picture of a brain, a symbol for sign language and of a wheelchair

Student Life

4 Mar 2022

Lincoln Unites 2022

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Black and white image of a group of people, seven women in long dresses sitting on chairs with four men in suits and bowties standing around them

Lincoln Unlocked

16 Jan 2022

Lincoln Unlocked: Theory into practice

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Closed cover of a book, with a golden crest

Lincoln Unlocked

15 Jan 2022

Lincoln Unlocked: The library of a 17th century statesman

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Student Life

6 Jan 2022

Meet our graduate scholars: Baptiste Vasey

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Prospective Students

30 Nov 2021

Oxford Interviews: What are they really like?

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Prospective Students

26 Nov 2021

Oxford Interviews: Tutor Q&A

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Lincoln Unlocked

19 Oct 2021

Music in the margins

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Prospective Students

14 Oct 2021

Undergraduate admissions: Oxford Admissions Tests

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Prospective Students

13 Oct 2021

Undergraduate admissions: How to write a personal statement

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Prospective Students

12 Oct 2021

Undergraduate admissions: UCAS and applying to Oxford 

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Prospective Students

12 Oct 2021

Undergraduate admissions: The application cycle

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Prospective Students

23 Sep 2021

Undergraduate admissions: How to choose your subject

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W1 on the river during Summer Torpids.

Student Life

13 Jul 2021

Lincoln College Boat Club: Summer Torpids success

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Student Life

29 Jun 2021

Why choose Lincoln College?

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Student Life

7 Jun 2021

Meet our graduate scholars: Christine Hanna

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Student Life

6 Jun 2021

Meet our graduate scholars: Ben Wheadon

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Student Life

2 Jun 2021

Meet our graduate scholars: Patrick Duffy

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Student Life

28 May 2021

Meet our graduate scholars: Angeliki Myrillas-Brazeau

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Engraving of Lincoln College depicting two quads, with people scattered all around inside and out.

Lincoln Unlocked

24 May 2021

Building ambition: grand designs for Lincoln College

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Student Life

5 May 2021

Meet our graduate scholars: Lavanya Singh

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Student Life

30 Apr 2021

Meet our graduate scholars: Kishan Maher

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Student Life

15 Apr 2021

Meet our graduate scholars: Heather McTaggart

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Student Life

9 Apr 2021

Meet our graduate scholars: Henry Brown

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Brown binder cover of a book with etchings of daffodils

Lincoln Unlocked

1 Apr 2021

Spring comes to the Senior Library

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Student Life

30 Mar 2021

Meet our graduate scholars: Nupur Patel

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Student Life

25 Mar 2021

Meet our graduate scholars: Daniel Radford-Smith

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Indexes and records in the Archive

Lincoln Unlocked

19 Mar 2021

How indexes help to keep archive catalogues human

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Student Life

17 Mar 2021

Meet our graduate scholars: Ellen Paterson

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Student Life

9 Mar 2021

Meet our graduate scholars: Arnau Bertran

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Student Life

1 Mar 2021

Meet our graduate scholars: Lana Gotvan

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Student Life

22 Feb 2021

Meet our graduate scholars: Naomi Gibbs

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Title page of an Arabic manuscript with illustrations of birds

Lincoln Unlocked

12 Feb 2021

Recently catalogued: an enigma in the Senior Library

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Alumni

5 Feb 2021

Financial markets, trading and investing

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Lincoln Unites Equality & Diversity Week banner featuring the logo in the middle

Student Life

1 Feb 2021

Virtual Lincoln Unites 2021

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Collage of two young women cooking a ratatouille

Student Life

17 Jan 2021

Cooking masterclass and sharing favourite meals with the MCR

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Student Life

10 Jan 2021

Student welfare initiatives at the fore

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Lincoln Unlocked

11 Nov 2020

Cataloguing literary and scientific papers in the Archive (part 2)

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A draft for Gavin Selerie’s Roxy

Lincoln Unlocked

28 Oct 2020

Cataloguing literary and scientific papers in the Archive (part 1)

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A colourful window box full of flowers at Lincoln College

Sustainability

27 Aug 2020

Returning to the gardens

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Nupur Patel pictured with her exhibition 'Early Modern Narratives of Indigenous People' at an Unlocking the Senior Library event

Lincoln Unlocked

8 Jul 2020

Early Modern Narratives of Indigenous People: Unlocking the Senior Library

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The Empress of Morocco. The book’s libretto is illustrated by printed engravings of the baroque proscenium arch of Christopher Wren’s Dorset Garden Theatre on Drury Lane.

Lincoln Unlocked

10 Jun 2020

‘Performance on the Page’ in the Senior Library’s collection

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A vegetable patch belonging to our Head Gardener, Aimee

Sustainability

27 May 2020

Gardening during lockdown

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Picture from Ascension Day of schoolchildren picking up coins from the grass of the Lincoln College Front Quad, thrown by people from the Tower above

College Life

21 May 2020

An Ascension Day like no other

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An old locked metallic chest

Lincoln Unlocked

20 May 2020

Viral: Locked out of the Archive

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Photograph of Amy Dunning in a tshirt and coat

Student Life

16 May 2020

The JCR: Coming together in a crisis

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Vetus Registrum, folio 18v, handwritten text

Lincoln Unlocked

20 Apr 2020

Spot the Lincolnite: the 'King’s Great Cause'

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The Appendix page of Cosmographie in Four Bookes

Lincoln Unlocked

7 Mar 2020

World Book Day, or the World in a Book

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Grotesque over the drain in Front Quad

Sustainability

6 Mar 2020

The Green Man

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Sign language workshop at Lincoln Unites

College Life

10 Feb 2020

Lincoln Unites

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Daffodils in the College gardens

Sustainability

26 Jan 2020

Winter in Bloom

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A close up of a hellebore

Sustainability

23 Jan 2020

Making the most of Hellebores in Winter

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