Archaeology talks at St Martin's church, Bilborough, in May 2017

Posters for two archaeology talks at St Martin's church in Bilborough this month:

Talk on the social and political context of the Pentrich Rising, 13 May 2017

Coal mining in the Leen Valley: talk by Dr David Amos, 12 April 2017

'Council Housing in Nottingham: The biggest collective leap in living standards,' a talk at Nottingham Mechanics on 21 January 2017

The Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Labour History Society's next meeting on Saturday 21st January 2017 at Nottingham Mechanics will include a talk by Chris Matthews and Dan Lucas entitled 'Nottingham Council Housing: The biggest collective leap in living standards.'

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.

D H Lawrence Festival 2014, 5-25 September

This year's D H Lawrence Festival will run from 5th-25th September. According to the organisers, 'the programme is packed with events celebrating both the life and work of D.H. Lawrence and the rich heritage and culture of this part of Nottinghamshire where he was born and raised, and which so influenced his work' and will include:

• Creative workshops
• Drama
• Exhibitions
• Film screenings
• Guided tours and walks
• Lectures
• Open days
• A Mining Heritage Day
• Music
• Reading groups

Download the Festival wall planner for further details.

Talk on 13 September in Retford: ‘Prophets, Martyrs and Pilgrims – the Christian heritage of our region’

Local History Seminars 2013/14 at Nottingham University

These Local History Seminars are organised by the University of Nottingham's Department of History and are held on the second Saturday of the month at Lenton Grove - where the Department of History is based. They are open to everyone with an interest in local and regional history. Booking is not necessary and the entry fee of £5 covers the cost of attending the seminar together with coffee and biscuits in the interval. In addition there is often a bookstall at the seminar. The seminars start at 10.00 and finish at 12.30. Further details on the Department of History website.

Events and exhibitions at Nottinghamshire Archives

A varied programme of events and exhibitions over the summer has been announced by Nottinghamshire Archives:

Wednesday Workshops

19 June: Records of Royalty
17 July: Apprenticeship
21 August: Hospital and asylum records

Each workshop starts at 2.30pm and costs £4.

Archive Skills Workshops

30 July: Reading Parish Registers (English)
6 August: Reading Parish Registers (Latin)
13 August: Interpreting Dates

Summer Talk

9 July: Local, National & International – RAF Ancestral Research
This talk starts at 6.30pm and is free.

Nottinghamshire’s People: Ancestral Stories from the Archives

7 June – 1 September 2013 at the Weston Gallery, Lakeside Arts Centre
Admission free

Lunchtime Talks (to accompany the exhibition)

(All talks are free and can be booked by contacting the Lakeside Arts Centre Box Office on 0115 846 7777)
26 June and 9 July: Students, Sinners and Surveys
3 July: Weaving My Family Tapestry
7 August: Unlocking the Parish Chest:
14 August: Kinship and Connectedness

For further information visit the Nottinghamshire Archives Events page.

Event: 'Stories of Ordinary Folk', 23 March 2013

The Spring meeting of the Nottinghamshire Local History Society on 23rd March at Ravenshead Village Hall is devoted to 'stories of ordinary folk'. The programme includes the following talks:

• 'Reading between the lines - stories from parish registers'
• 'Joseph Woolley - the diary of a framework knitter'
• 'A common fate - people in the workhouse'
• 'When the bands played on'

Further information on the NLHA website.

'Balls, Boots and Players - celebrating 500 years of Nottingham High School in its communty

Lakeside is hosting an exhibition that "explores the relationship between Nottingham High School and its community, illustrated through the lives of the people who belong to it."

A series of free lunchtime talks to accompany the exhibition has also been organised:

• 'Pure and Constant' (Wednesday, 10 October, 1-2pm, in A09, Engineering & Science Learning Centre) - the life and work of Thomas Hawksley, engineer
• 'Ken Clark talks' (Friday, 9 November, 1-2pm in the Senate Chamber, Trent Building) - the High School's best known living old boy discusses his schooldays and career in politics
• 'Balls, boots and players' (Tuesday, 13 November, 1-2pm in the Senate Chamber, Trent Building) - Tony Palfreyman shares his passion for sport and sport in Nottinghamshire
• 'Karachi and the wilds of interior Sindh' (Tuesday, 4 December, 1-2pm,  in A09, Engineering & Science Learning Centre) - BBC journalist Aleem Maqbool discusses his work as a journalist in Pakistan

Further details are available on the Lakeside website.

Rethinking Luddism in Nottinghamshire: 22 September 2012

Dr Matthew Roberts will be giving a talk revisiting the Luddism of Nottinghamshire framework knitters on Saturday, 22nd September 2012, at 2pm in The Sparrow's Nest, St Anns.

"As is well known, the epicentre(s) of Luddism was not in Nottingham itself but in the surrounding villages. Many of these villages were still essentially rural communities. The Luddism of the villages was part of a repertoire of protest acts (arson, poaching, even robbery and attacks on rural property), the origins of which were to be found in the traditions and customs of the English rural community. The Luddites were not semi-professional criminals divorced from their wider community. Rather, Luddite cells grow organically from kinship, neighbourhood and trade connections. The talk will also challenge the view that Luddism in Nottinghamshire was constitutional and moderate."

To entice you further, the poster for the event states "there WILL BE TEA. There MAY BE CAKE"!

• Further information is available on the People's Histreh website