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NOTTINGHAMSHIRE LOCAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER

16th Annual Great Inclosure Walk

The 2018 Inclosure Walk on Sunday 1st July 2018 will start near Toll Bridge, at 1.30pm. Meet at the Meadows Embankment tram stop, Clifton Line. The walk will be led by JOHN PARKER, Chair of LOCAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION This walk goes through all the Recreation Grounds allotted to the townsfolk when their commonable Fields and Meadows were enclosed to give more space for desperately needed housing. No other town in Britain has anything like it. Much of this ground was laid out as walks but there was also recognition that cricket and other team games and events needed to be catered for as well as play-space; the regular Sunday walks of the family were just as important for the Town’s health. The walk finishes at the Inclosure Oaks, (yes, there are now two), on the Forest, where a certificate will be presented to those completing the route. Guides will be available to buy on the day, or from the tourist centre, for your future use. The Forest cafe will be open at the end, highly recommended.

The latest newsletter from the National Association of Mining Heritage Organisation (NAMHO) which includes an article on the Coalmining Heritage Forum (EMCHF) is available from the WELCOME page of our website: nlha.org.uk

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! ! ! !!!!The!First!Siege!of!Newark!:!1218! Dr!David!Crook!! (formerly)of)the)National)Archives)) ! A)presentation)on)the)800th)anniversary)of)the)first)Siege)of) Newark)in)July)1218) ) Wednesday!July!18th!at!7pm!for!7.30pm! Georgian)Ballroom,)Newark)Town)Hall):)Tickets)£5) ) Following) the) death) of) King) John) in) Newark) in) 1216,) this) talk) chronicles) two) dramatic) events) from) this) turbulent) period) :) the) Battle) of) Lincoln) [1217])and)the)eight)day)Siege)of)Newark)in)July)1218.) )) Tickets!on!sale!from:! ! Palace!Theatre!Booking!Office/National!Civil!War! Museum!:!Newark! ! !!!!!!!Tel):))01636)655)765)))))www.nationalcivilwarcentre.com) ) Or)from)Collingham!Local!History!Society)) Tel):)01636)892292) ) )

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2018 Festival of Leicestershire and Rutland Archaeology

Saturday 14th – Sunday 29th July 2018 We invite you to join in the 2018 Festival of Leicestershire and Rutland Archaeology – a chance to discover more about the rich and diverse heritage of Leicestershire and Rutland. The Festival has a fascinating range of events, talks and guided tours from some of the county’s archaeological and historical experts. Local groups will show you their own discoveries and invite you to become involved in making the next great discovery! For an online version of the leaflet and to keep up to date with the latest events go to Leicestershire Fieldworkers website below. Please always check for latest updates and news in case of last minute additions and changes. http:/leicsfieldworkers.co.uk/festival-of-archaeology

EAST MIDLANDS HISTORY AND HERITAGE

Write for us: Share your stories about the local consequences of the Great War The January 2019 ‘bumper’ edition of East Midlands History and Heritage will be dedicated to the centenary of the end of the Great War. To remember and reflect on the days, months and years after November 1918, we would like you to share your stories and pictures with us. We are particularly interested in the lasting consequences of the war on the local life in villages, towns and cities across our region. • Did the Armistice raise expectations for a better tomorrow? • How did communities choose to commemorate? • What were the lasting social, physical, and mental impacts on families and individuals? Articles should normally be around 1000-2000 words long, with a strong local/regional connection. We’d like contributions by 15th November 2018. For more information contact: [email protected]

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Prison History

Prison History is a database which contains information on nearly 850 penal institutions which existed in 19th century , including around 420 local prisons and 380 lock ups. For each institution, there is information about its operational dates, jurisdiction, location, population statistics, the primary and secondary sources which mention it, and a list of all the relevant and surviving archival documents which we have been able to find in repositories based in England. On accessing Prison History, users can either search for specific prisons or various types of prisons, or browse the lists of archival materials. One of the core aims of Prison History is to emphasise the importance of the local prison (and lock ups) in nineteenth-century society. It is an institution that has been largely neglected in the major studies of nineteenth-century imprisonment and it is time to redress the imbalance. The hope is that Prison History will be a useful resource for local historians, and also that local historians will want to get involved with this project, to help make the database an even better tool for local history, and, through emphasising the importance of prisons within nineteenth-century communities, to demonstrate the importance of local history research. www.prisonhistory.org

Faces of Change: Votes for Women

National Portrait Gallery exhibition at National Trust’s The Workhouse, Southwell

From 29 April to 22 July 2018, visitors can view the exhibition between 12:00 and 16:00 in The Workhouse. In 2018, the National Trust is celebrating 100 years since some women were granted the right to vote and is holding events and exhibitions at its places to explore the lives of those who fought for suffrage, as well as others who influenced change throughout history.

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The Chilwell Disaster 1918, Alan Dance

Join us on Tuesday 14th August 2018 10.00 to 12.00 at 1st Floor Central Library, Angel Row, Nottingham for a talk on the Chilwell Munitions Factory and the Explosion of 1918 with Alan Dance, local historian and author of “Canary Child” and “Narrow Marsh” The Chilwell ammunition factory was the country’s most productive shell filling factory during the First World War. It was set up by Viscount Chetwynd in 1915 to try and counter the superior German firepower in the trench warfare.He chose a site near Nottingham that was flat with good road and rail links, but also in a dip to shield any explosions.During the course of the war, the Chilwell factory supplied over half the shells fired, including most of those used in the battle of the Somme. 10,000 people worked in the Chilwell munitions factory including many women. They were known as the Canary Girls who often worked up to 12 hour shifts for 30 shillings a week. In July 1918 there was a devastating explosion in the mixing plant at Chilwell. 134 people died and 250 were injured by the blast that flattened much around the site. Following tea/coffee from 10.00 the talk will start at 10.30 You can pre-register in person at the Local Studies Library, phone 0115 9152870, or by email to: [email protected]

East Midlands History and Heritage

We still have are a small number of copies of the January 2018 edition of the East Midlands History and Heritage magazine - if you would like some of these please email me at [email protected]

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Unknown ?, Bob Visit to the John Taylor & Co Massey, Gedling Borough Bell Foundry at Loughborough, Heritage Festival 2018 Lambley HS

A 1.5hr History walk around Mapperley On Tuesday 3rd July 2018 there will be a on Sunday 1st July 2018 5.30pm Starting guided tour of the works and the Bell from Haywood Rd Community Centre and Foundry Museum ending at The Bread and Bitter This event is FREE but you need to book a place. For Heritage Walks 2018: Lace more information and to book phone 0744 353 6811 or email Denis Hill at: Market, Nottingham Civic Society [email protected] On Wednesday 4th July 2018 at 10:30am, meet at the Weekday Cross (outside East Midlands Coal-mining Contemporary). This walk is Heritage Forum: Funding approximately 1 mile long and will take Workshop 2.5 hours at a very steady pace and will tour around the famous The East Midlands Coal-mining Heritage looking at how the area developed through Forum will be holding a short Funding the centuries into a national centre of the Workshop at Nottingham Trent University lace trade. (Clifton Campus) on Thursday, 5th July 2018 (10am – 12 Noon). To register for the free workshop please contact Natalie Natural History and Heritage Braber by 29th June 2018 on (0115) 848 Walk: Newstead Abbey 3011 or by e-mail at: Gardens, Gedling Borough [email protected] Heritage Festival 2018

History Walk, Local On Thursday 5th and Saturday 7th July 2018, from Newstead Abbey cafe History Group courtyard at 1:00pm. There is a £6 entry fee per car and you need to book a place. The Bilborough Local History Group has a For more information and to book phone history walk on Thursday 5th July 2018. 0744 353 6811 or email Denis Hill at: Everyone Welcome. Just be at St. Martin of Tours Church in Bilborough Village ready [email protected] to start at 6:30pm. It will last approximately 2 hours.

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Storytellers: Cinderella, Medieval Crime and Pinochio and the remarkable Punishment, Tina Lee, role of translators in the history Keyworth and District LHS of British children’s literature, On Friday 6th July 2018 Gillian Lathey, Manuscripts in the Centenary and Special Collections Lounge, Keyworth Village Hall at 7:30pm When we see a child enjoy the stories of Tina Lee will give a Cinderella and Pinochio, or engrossed in presentation on an Asterix album, it is easy to forget the medieval crime and role of a translator in producing English punishment. For more information please versions of these tales. On Thursday 5 July visit the website 2018 at 1 – 2 pm in the Djanogly Theatre, Nottingham Lakeside Arts, University www.keyworthhistory.org.uk Park.

Kelham and Averham Cropwell Bishop Celebration Churches: Open Weekend Weekend

On Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th July the The Heritage Centre will be open on churches of St Wilfrid in Kelham and St Saturday 7th July from 10am to 4pm and Michael and All Angels in Averham are on Sunday 8th July from 10am to 12 noon. opening for longer than usual. Everyone is In this centenary year of the end of the invited to come along. St Wilfrid’s, First World War, the theme of the display Kelham will be open between 10.30 and will cover the biographies of the men from 3pm on both days. the village who served in WW1

Explore the History of Boston, The Mayflower Pilgrims and Lincolnshire’s Greatest Monk

A Fascinating Local History day out by coach with guided tours Saturday 7th July: pick up (09:00) and (09:20) Guided tour of ‘Boston Stump’ – one of England’s great parish churches and home of John Cotton, one of America’s greatest 17th Century Church leaders - See the home of John Foxe, author of Tudor England’s best-seller ‘The Book of Martyrs’ - Visit the cells in which the ‘Mayflower’ Pilgrims were imprisoned after their first escape attempt - Visit extraordinary Sempringham – home of St Gilbert and England’s only monastic order, where puritan leaders plotted the ‘Great Migration’ in 1629. The price which includes morning coffee and cake, light lunch, and admissions is £32.50. For more information phone to Maggy on 07724 848958, or email: [email protected]

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Historic Film Show: Arnold on Heritage Walks 2018: Old Film, Gedling Borough Heritage Basford, Nottingham Civic Festival 2018 Society

On Sunday 8th July 2018, at the Bonington Theatre, Arnold at 2:00pm and again at On Saturday 7th July 2018 at 11:00am, 6:30pm. This event is FREE but booking is meet at St. Leodegarius Church on Church essential. For more information and to Street Old Basford. This walk is book phone 0744 353 6811 or email Denis approximately 1 mile long and will take Hill at: 2.5 hours at a steady pace - it takes a look at one of Nottingham’s suburbs that was [email protected] once a separate village.

Summer Outing: Epworth Old Rectory, Nuthall and District HS

On Tuesday 10th July 2018 the Society will have its Summer Outing to Epworth Old Rectory, pick up at 11:00am, cost £16 Toton Uncovered, Gill Morral, per person Stapleford and District LHS On Tuesday 10th July 2018 at St Helen’s Visit to Newark, Pentagon LHS Church Hall, Frederick Road, Stapleford starting at 7:30pm Gill Morral Flinders will On Wednesday 11th July visit to Newark explore the history of Toton from medieval Town Hall and St. Mary Magdalene Parish manor to modern times. Church.

The Sherwood Foresters, Keith Quibell, Collingham in The Great War

At 7:30 pm on Wednesday 11th July 2018 join us at Collingham Memorial Hall to hear a fascinating insight into the Sherwood Foresters Regiment during WW1. Speaker Keith Quibell is an experienced Western Front battlefields tour guide. Born and raised in Collingham, as a boy Keith met many local veterans from the First World War

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Dick Kerr Ladies, Gail Newsham, Collingham in the Great War

At 2:00 pm on Wednesday 11th July 2018 at Collingham Memorial Hall historian Gail Newsham will tell the story of women’s football during The Great War. In the history of women’s football, The Dick, Great War Heritage Day, Kerr Ladies are the most successful team Rufford Abbey Country Park in the world. They were formed at a munitions factory in Preston during the Discover the story of Nottinghamshire First World War during the Great War on Wed 11 July, 10am – 3pm, at Rufford Abbey Country Park. It’s free to attend (£3.50 car Heritage Walks 2018: Crime parking) . There will be a wide range of demonstrations, storytelling, quizzes, and Punishment, Nottingham competitions and fascinating displays with Civic Society artefacts telling the story of life in Nottinghamshire during WWI On Wednesday 11th July 2018 at 6:30pm, meet at the front steps to the Council House. This walk is approximately 1 mile Summer Social, Farnsfield LHS long and will take 2.5 hours at a very On Wednesday 11th July 2018 at 7:30pm steady pace and takes a look at crime and in the lower hall of the Village Centre the punishment in Nottingham Society will hold its Summer Social.

Nottingham Patent Brick, Mick Steampunk at Papplewick Chapman, Bilborough Local Pumping Station History Group On Thursday July 12th and Friday July On Wednesday 11th July 2018 at 7.30pm at 13th 2018, 11:00am to 5:00pm, at St Martin’s Church come and join us to Papplewick Pumping Station, Rigg Lane, learn about the Nottingham Brick Ravenshead come along and see the Company from its Victorian beginnings amazing 1879 underground reservoir with through to the 21st century. Supported by its Cathedral style ceilings with regular the Friends of St Martin’s Bilborough trips to the underground reservoir Admission £2 / £1 concessions Everyone throughout the day. (Weather permitting) welcome – no need to book For more One not to be missed – a mix of Victorian information please email eccentricity, technology and aesthetic designs inspired by 19th-century industrial [email protected] steam-powered machinery!

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Notts People: Your Victorian Outing to Ripon, Friends of Family Photos, David Ackrel, Nottingham Museums Nottinghamshire Archives On Saturday 14th July there will be an At 2:30pm on Friday 13th July at outing to Ripon, Yorkshire There is a Nottinghamshire Archives Join our senior regular programme of talks, visits to conservator, David Ackrel, for a galleries and historic sites. Non members fascinating insight plus learn how to look are welcome at meetings and outings on after your own precious photos. By popular payment of an additional charge of £2.00. demand! Book your place at: For further information telephone 0115 9221734 or 0115 9253268 and see https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/notts- people-your-victorian-family-photos- www.nottinghamheritage.org.uk tickets-47018168608? aff=ebdssbdestsearch Finding the Newark Torc and Weatherspoon Pubs in other treasures, Maurice Nottingham, Kurt Hatton, Richardson, Bottesford LHS Bramcote History Group On Tuesday 17th July: 7 for 7.30 at Bottesford Library, Old Primary School, On 16th July 2018 at St Michael’s Church Grantham Road, Bottesford, NG13 0DF Centre, Church St. Bramcote, Nottingham Maurice Richardson, a metal detectorist NG9 3HD 8pm start, (all welcome from from Newark of more than 50 years’ 7.40pm) Kurt Hatton will give a talk on experience, will give an account of his Weatherspoon pubs in Nottingham finding of the Newark torc, and of the many other artefacts he has uncovered over the years. Heritage Walks 2018: It’s a Walk in the Park, Nottingham Riots and Rebellion, NFHS Civic Society On Wednesday 18th July 2018 at On Wednesday 18th July 2018 at 6:30pm, Nottinghamshire Archives commencing at meet at gatehouse. This 7:15pm Nicholas Clark, Peter Hammond walk is approximately 1 mile long and will and Gabriella Stenson will give a drama take 2.5 hours at a very steady pace and presentation re-enacting true events that takes a look at the prestigious Park Estate, impacted on the lives of our Nottingham its grand houses, and how the estate ancestors during the early nineteenth developed throughout the 19th century century

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Boots On-line Archive and Bridging two cultures, Dr. Museum, Tom Bell, Beeston & Mireya Rodriguez Gonzales, District LHS Bottesford LHS

Presented by Tom Bell at Chilwell On Thursday 19th July: 7pm for 7.30pm at Memorial Institute, 129 High Road Bottesford Library, Old Primary School, Chilwell, NG9 4AT on Wednesday 18th Grantham Road, Bottesford, NG13 0DF July 2018. Doors open at 7:15 and the join Dr Mireya Rodriguez Gonzales of meeting commences at 7:30pm. ULAS to hear about the recent excavation prompted by development plans on ancient pasture close to the Easthorpe medieval earthworks site A village history walk in Bottesford, Bottesford LHS The Queen’s Jester, Dr. Ann On Saturday 21st July: 2pm Meet at the Featherstone, Friends of Market Cross, Market Street/Grantham Nottingham Museums Road, NG13 0BW Join Neil Fortey for a walk round the village looking for the On Saturday 21st July 2018 at 2:00pm in hidden history of Bottesford. The walk will the Committee Room of The Malt Cross, examine the old building and streets of the St. James’ Street, Nottingham Dr Ann village and then move to Easthorpe to look Featherstone will tell the story of W. F. at the medieval earthworks Wallet, the Queen’s jester.

My Other Favourite Archive, Heritage Walks 2018: Another FONA Walk in the Park, Nottingham On Saturday 21st July 2018 at 11:00am at Civic Society Nottinghamshire Archives there will be an opportunity for members to discuss their On Wednesday 25th July 2018 at 6:30pm, favourite archive, whether held at meet at Nottingham Castle gatehouse. This Nottinghamshire Archives or elsewhere, walk is approximately 1 mile long and will and what it means to them and their take 2.5 hours at a very steady pace and research. If you would like to contribute to will explore some of the lesser visited parts this event, or would like to request a of the Park estate but will still deliver great particular itemI to be placed on view architecture and look at the origin of street please contact us no later than 14th July names., No booking is required and this 2018 at: walk will take place regardless of the weather - £4 for adults (£3 for concessions) [email protected]

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On Wednesday 25th July 2018 starting at the Visitor Centre at 1.30pm, please arrive 5-10 minutes early. (And then on the last Wednesday of the month March – September 2018) A guided tour covering 700 years of history on the gardens at St Anns Allotments – Nottingham’s unique Victorian detached gardens

Readers and Their Books in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Colin Heywood, Manuscripts and Special Collections

On Thursday 26 July 2018 at 1 – 2 pm in the Djanogly Theatre, Nottingham Lakeside Arts, University Park, Colin Heywood, Emeritus Professor of Modern French History at the University of Nottingham, focuses on the society and culture in which children were raised in the 19th century. This talk will cover the massive increase in the quantity and quality of literature written specifically for children in 19th century and it will also analyse the underlying forces at work, notably the growing interest in childhood and education, and the achievement of near-universal literacy. This talk is free but needs to be booked in advance by calling the Box Office on 0115 846 7777 or at: http://tickets.lakesidearts.org.uk/

Medieval carvings in Graffiti and gargoyles, Leicestershire and Rutland, Bottesford LHS Bottesford LHS On Saturday 28th July: 2pm join us for a On Friday 27th July: 7.30pm at St Mary’s discovery walk of St Mary’s Bottesford. parish church, Rectory Lane, Bottesford, Meet at church porch, St Mary’s, Rectory NG13 0BA Lane, Bottesford, NG13 0BA For more information call Bottesford For more information call Bottesford Library 01949 842696 or email Library 01949 842696 or email [email protected] [email protected]

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email: [email protected] telephone: 0115 9313592 Talks includeThe Rise & Fall of Colwick Locomotive Depot, Looking at Nottinghamshire Churches, Mining Memories, A Tour of Gedling, Carlton and Netherfield, Garden talks, European tours.

Steve Wright

email: [email protected] telephone: 07454 015966 Talks include the stories of Nottingham regiments during the Napoleonic and Zulu wars.

Michael Kirkby

email: [email protected] telephone: 07852957022 Talks include – Hannibal Barca: Rome’s Greatest Adversary – The Napoleonic Wars at Home? – Napoleon’s British Obsession: The Invasion of the ‘Nation of Shopkeepers

Edward Hammond

email: [email protected] telephone: 07922 496682 website: www.heritagetalks.homestead.com Talks include – Lace, Slums and The Occasional Riot: The Making of Victorian Nottingham – The Story of Boots: Jesse Boot, Florence and the history of the Boots Company – A Woman’s Lot: Women’s History in Nottinghamshire, 1550-1950s -The People’s War World War 2 in Chris Weir Nottinghamshire – When The Bands Played On! – Kill or Cure! Bygone Medicine – The Nottinghamshire Heritage – Rambling Into History – Secrets, Mysteries and Curiosities of Nottinghamshire – Mud, Munitions and Memorials: Nottinghamshire and World War One

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email: [email protected] telephone: 01335 350536 website: www.history-talks.co.uk Talks include: – Art of the Garden – The English and Gardening – Joseph Paxton – Art of the Christmas Card – The Victorians and the Christmas Season

Danny Wells

email: [email protected] telephone: 0115 9145520 website: www.handsonourhistory.co.uk Talks include – Middens and Muck – So You think You Know Nottingham (Parts 1,2 and 3) – Edward Carver: A Journey into Local and Family History – On the Buses – Potions, Lotions and Cure- alls Peter Hammond

email: [email protected] website: www.mdfoodhistory.weebly.com Talks include – Food and Drink in Tudor and Stuart Derbyshire – Food and Drink in Tudor and Stuart Nottinghamshire – Oatcakes: farming and diet in North Derbyshire – What’s up with ewe? A thousand years of English sheep’s milk cheese

Mark Dawson

email: [email protected] telephone: 07950472022 Talks include – The Clergyman, The Widow and the Milkman’ (An exploration of Nottingham’s Edwardian landlords) – The History of the Deaf Community in Nottingham – Women’s History

Mo Cooper

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email: [email protected] telephone: 0115 854 8373 or 0754 7555 322 Talks include – Terror from the Skies – January 1916 the night the Zeppelins came – Catherine Crompton’s Diary – The Life and Travels of Robert Bruce Napoleon Walker – A Family History Presentationalong the lines of ‘Who Do You Think You Are? – Stanton-Gone but not Forgotten – The History Beneath Our Feet – A Taste of Tudor Ilkeston – Stanton on Film – Stanton at War Stephen Flinders 1939-1945 – Owd Ilson

email: [email protected] Talks include – Binns Family History – The Campion Family

Brian Binns

email: [email protected] telephone: 0115 9327495 Talks include – Nottinghamshire Castles – A Derbyshire Railway Outing: A railway tour using a 1920s timetable. – Aldercar and Langley Mill – 1000 Years in 60 Minutes – Derbyshire Associations for the Prosecution of Felons, 1703-2014: – Policing in 19th-Century Derbyshire - Bradshaw’s, and an Early Railway Tour: the famous railway timetable, and a mystery tour! – Derbyshire’s Castles – Vic Robert Mee Hallam – One Man and his Company: from the 1920s to the 1990s – Crime in Langley Mill 1891 to 1930 – Morlestan – South East Derbyshire before the Norman Conquest – A History of Smalley: from medieval times to modern open-casting. – Wheels of Industry – Langley Mill – History along the Erewash Valley Trail – A Potted History of Heanor: the name says it all really – Heanor Grammar School: Its history from beginning to end! – Mine’s a Pint: Public Houses in the Heanor Area

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email: [email protected] telephone: 0115 9263626 website: www.bobmassey.info/415325374 Talks include - General - Local History - Local History ( Nottingham), World War One - Cinema - Theatre - Aircraft - Computers - Local History of Arnold

Bob Massey

email: [email protected] Talks include: – Nottingham Castle (From Royal Residence to People’s Palace – and beyond) – The Women in the Lives of the 4th and 5th Dukes of Newcastle – The Pentrich Rebellion – Nottinghamshire and the Great Peace – Emma’s Sketchbook – Political Cartoons – Gladstone Richard Gaunt

email: [email protected] telephone: 07925 840920 Talks include – Rock of Ages, Medieval Stone Masons – Tattershall Castle – William Shakespeare Henry V and the Manipulation of History – Historic Graffiti – Castles of Nottinghamshire – Ritual Protection Marks at Knowle, Kent James Wright

email: [email protected] telephone: 07470-366689 Talks include – Why did they all come from here? – Religious Liberty: A Gift to the World from Notts and Lincs – Thomas Helwys: The Price of Freedom – The ‘Black Prince’ of Scunthorpe – The Wrays of Glentworth: Radical Religion

Adrian Gray

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email: [email protected] telephone: 07961077630 Talks include: – Folklore and Custom in the East Midlands – The History of Busking and Street Performance – Both talks involve elements of live music and performance. Folklore and Custom in the East Midlands

email: [email protected] telephone: 07835203303 Talks include the Archaeology of the Tram, We Dig the Castle, Lenton Priory and the archaeology of Nottingham Castle, talks on excavations and fieldwork at Newark, Southwell, Toton, St Ann’s Allotments, Attenborough, Darley Abbey, Chester Green and many other sites in the area. Speakers include Dr Gareth Davies (Head of Operations at Trent & Peak and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Trent and Nottingham), Laura Binns (Trent & Peak’s Community Archaeologist) Peak and Dr David Knight (Head of Research). Archaeology

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Nottinghamshire Local History Association does not manage or act as an agent for speakers. Please make enquiries and bookings directly with your chosen speaker

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Important Dates for 2018

NLHA Angel Row History Forums: Tuesday 14th August 2018, Tuesday 6th November 2018 NLHA Day Schools: Saturday 20th October 2018 at Ravenshead NLHA Executive Committee Meetings: Tuesday 17th July 2018, Tuesday 16th October 2018 News and Events

We are happy to publish any news or events, from individuals or groups, regardless of whether or not they are NLHA members, as long as the topic relates to Nottinghamshire local history. Please send material by email to [email protected]. You can still access the news and events on our webpage at: nlha.org.uk

I am happy to post news and events to the webpage at any time but if you want them to appear in the newsletter than I need to have them by the last week-end of the previous month. Trustees

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE LOCAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation registered with the Charity Commission and managed by an Executive Committee of elected trustees: David Anderson, Nick Hayes, Ruth Imeson, Robert Mee, Alison Montgomery, John Parker, Roger Tanner, Derek Walker, Chris Weir and James Wright.

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