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Lincoln Allison

Lincoln Allison is lecturer and essayist. He is the author or editor of eighteen books running into more than forty editions, and of more than a thousand articles including regular features in New Society, The Daily Telegraph, The Countryman, The Washington Times, Standpoint, Times Higher Education and the Social Affairs Unit website. He has appeared in more than three hundred radio and television programmes, approximately 85% for the BBC.

The Best of It by Lincoln Allison

Lincoln has just published The Best of It, 30 essays celebrating the most memorable performances, sporting events and gastronomic experiences of his eighty years. It is hoped that those who accept the book as a gift will be prepared to make a financial contribution to Ronald McDonald House at the Birmingham Children’s Hospital. Find out more here.

Read more about who I am and why I write. If you wish to engage in personal correspondence about the material published on this site please use the email address
l.r.allison@warwick.ac.uk

See the latest additions to the archive:

  • The Annotated Dictionary of Dislikes

    I spent the first four months of 2026 writing a book about things I liked. But on May 12th I had a “knee replacement”; even if it goes well you are in a lot of pain for quite a long time and deeply frustrated. So here I am, approaching my eightieth birthday and feeling like […]

  • Can a colleague have intolerable opinions?

    On the twenty seventh of March this year I attended the funeral of Jack Scarisbrick who had died at the age of ninety seven. It was very grand and very catholic: a full church, a requiem mass, a dozen priests, a cardinal (Vincent Nicholls), some Latin and some incense. There were many family members – […]

  • Steve Lamb

    I am going to write about Steve Lamb the cricketer and I apologise to anyone reading or listening to this who doesn’t understand cricket or finds it boring, but Steve the cricketer was in many ways the key to Steve the person. I played cricket for more than forty years with Steve. He was an […]