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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.

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:

  • A Day in the Life Of . . .

    Monday February 12th 2024 7.30am: Get up. Notice that the sky is cloudless, retrieve milk and newspaper from the doorstep and make tea. Banana for breakfast. 10am: After exercising cycle to the tennis club for a singles match. This is played in our own ladder format, 13 games completed whatever the score. A brilliant way […]
  • In and Out of the Madding Crowd

    (This is a pretty contemporary topic, almost a news story and the sort of thing I usually avoid: overcrowded tourist destinations, the havoc wrought by cruise ships and how to avoid all that.) In Venice, published in 1960, James (later Jan) Morris described being on a vaporetto on the Grand Canal on a misty winter’s […]
  • The Mystery of Shakespeare’s Music

    There are over four hundred published pieces of music which accredit William Shakespeare’s plays and poetry as their inspiration; in November 2023 BBC Radio 3 ran a day of tribute to them. Some, like Felix Mendelssohn’s incidental music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream or Tchaikovsky’s or Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet are extremely well known and […]