Heading: Nottinghamshire people

Link to black community history pagesBLACK COMMUNITY HISTORY
Nottingham has long associations with the black community. In the Nottingham Journal, of Friday 8 August 1834, one week after...

Link to family history pagesFAMILY HISTORY
Throughout time our ancestors have suffered many hardships – war, poverty, disease and famine, they have struggled through times...

Link to Medical Officers of Health pagesFRAMEWORK KNITTERS
Before the time of Queen Elizabeth I, stockings were usually knitted by hand of very coarse woollen thread, or, if desired to be cool and...

Link to Luddite pagesLUDDITES
Luddites was a term given to frame breakers, in the years between 1811 and 1817. It was coined around the mythical figure of Ned ...

Link to Medical Officers of Health pagesMEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH
Until recently little was recorded about these three men, Edward Seaton, Sir Arthur Whitelegge and Philip Boobbyer...

Link to the 4th Duke of Newcastle pages4TH DUKE OF NEWCASTLE
 The Fourth duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1785-1851) was one of the most important figures in early-19th century Nottinghamshire.

Link to Nottingham architects pagesNOTTINGHAM ARCHITECTS
 Ken Brand discusses the distinctive architectural work of T C Hine, Watson Fothergill and W R Gleave and their enduring legacy...

Link to Nottingham architects pagesROBIN HOOD
 Robin Hood, renowned outlaw, adventurer and hero of old, has somehow managed to forge himself an identity ...

Lucy HutchinsonWOMEN'S HISTORY IN NOTTINGHAM
 Women have made an important contribution to the history of Nottingham despite their absence ...