Latest Nottinghamshire Historian journal published

Just received my Spring/Summer 2008 copy of The Nottinghamshire Historian, issued by the Nottinghamshire Local History Association. As ever, it's attractively produced by The Local History Press and contains articles on the following:

• The Edwardian gardens at Rufford Abbey
• The role the Co-operative societies in Greater Nottingham played in local politics
• Investigating the lives and deaths of Hucknall men recorded on two WWI brass plaques found in the town's Central Methodist Church
• The story of the Primitive Methodist Chapel in Ruddington

Further information is available on the NLHA website: http://www.local-history.co.uk/nlha/nottshistn.html

In my father's house

Intriguing book by Miranda Seymour reviewed in The Guardian yesterday recounting the painful story of her eccentric father's obession with Thrumpton Hall. Doesn't look like lightweight reading but I'll probably get it anyway!