Researching Roman Southwell project

The Researching Roman Southwell Project has launched a crowdfunding bid to fund a community archaeology project in the town. They need to raise £4,300 to investigate Harvey's Field which test-pit excavations have suggested has in-situ Roman deposits that have never been explored before.

Further information on the project is available on the Researching Roman Southwell website.

Lecture on the Welbeck Atlas, Saturday 13 December

Nottingham University's Department of History are running a series of local history seminars over the coming months.

The next one is by Steph Mastoris on the splendid Welbeck Atlas which comprises over 80 maps based on surveys of the estates of William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle. The maps were produced by the surveyor William Senior between 1629 and 1640 and cover Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Northumberland, Gloucestershire and Somerset.

The seminar will take place at 10am on Saturday, 13th Decembe,r and will describe the origins and structure of the Atlas and its relationship to Senior's written surveys.

Further information on the seminars is available on the University of Nottingham website.