Nottinghamshire Archives news

Nottinghamshire Archives programme of events and activities this autumn/winter is now available on their website. This includes:

• Behind-the-scenes tours of the archives building
• Lunchtime talks on the different architectural styles of buildings in the county, Nottingham architect T C Howitt, the development of Forest Fields in Nottingham, the history of Nottinghamshire churches
• Workshops on parish records, Southwell Minster archives, sources for the English Civil Wars in Nottinghamshire, occupations and trades of our ancestors and wills and inventories
• Archive skills workshops
• Workshops on The Old Streets of Nottingham (using photographs and maps) and Wikipedia Workshop (updating heritage content online)

Full details and booking information is available here.

A new finding aid to business records held by Nottinghamshire Archives has recently been made available. It is organised by business name and also by business category.

Documents of the month:

• August 2012 - Programme for the stone laying ceremony of the William Booth Memorial Halls of The Salvation Army, Nottingham, 1914
• September 2012 - Southwell Chapter Register recording Corrections of the Vicars Choral, 1479