The society has its headquarters at the Jews' Court in Lincoln, where it has a lecture room, and runs a bookshop for new and secondhand books.

This is probably the reason why Edward James Willson, a Roman Catholic, did not join this society.

in the Louth Corn Exchange [opposite the Albion Rooms], but that it was proposed to move it to Lincoln".

[6] During these early years a high proportion of the members of the society were clergymen within the Diocese of Lincoln and most of the published articles are about Church history and architecture.

In 1930 the Lindsey Local History Society was founded and it came to publish the Lincolnshire Historian.

In 2009 Flare, an organisation that supported the Lincoln Archaeological Trust became a constituent member of the society.