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Online hero
There are some great websites about local history in different parts of Nottinghamshire, but only a few cover the whole county in any detail and pride of place must go to Andy Nicholson’s Nottinghamshire History and Archaeology website (www.nottshistory.org.uk) where you will find news and a calendar of events as well as transcriptions of local history books which are out of copyright, plus a great deal more.
Andy also maintains the Nottinghamshire Historic Churches website (www.nottshistoricchurchtrust.org.uk) and is involved with the Nottinghamshire Heritage Gateway Project (www.thorotonsociety.org.uk/gateway.htm). He is also a member of the Thoroton Society and the Nottinghamshire Local History Association. He spends 5–6 hours a weeks maintaining the Notts History website, which he started nearly five years ago, and receives a steady flow of enquiries from North America, Australia and New Zealand.
News 'snippets'
The Editor’s Column is the newsletter of the Association of Nottinghamshire Newsletters and is specially written to help editor’s and others associated with the production of community newsletters and church magazines. It is published 3–4 times a year. The Association also holds meetings for editors and others with an interest in community based newsletters and periodicals. For more details contact Keith Wood, Secretary, Notts News, Carousel, 1 Barrow Slade, Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5JQ, web: www.nottsnews.org.uk.
Are there any history bloggers out there? Bloggers are individuals who use the web to publish their own online newsletter or diary. I have a blog about Lenton Recreation Ground (www.parkviews.blogspot.com). I have even found a local history society blog (www.llanteghistorysociety.blogspot.com). Do you have one of your own or know of any which relate to Nottinghamshire local history in some way? If you do, we would like to hear from you so that we can give them some publicity in the next Nottinghamshire Historian. Email news@local-history.co.uk.
From 39 years ago. ‘It is hoped that a scheme for village history noticeboards will soon be under way with the preparation of boards for Gotham and Tuxford, two of the first parishes to express an interest in the project’. From Nottinghamshire Local History Council Newsletter No.1, Feb 1968. Taken from the new CD of back issues. Please send us your own favourite items from Issue 1 and tell us why, so we can start a regular ‘From 40 years ago’ column in the next issue.
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Many historic records about the environment across Nottinghamshire can now be accessed via one website: www.heritagegateway.org.uk. Its homepage presently describes the website as an ‘operational pilot’. Hosted by English Heritage you can search for historic images, pictures of listed buildings, nationally held records on local sites, local archaeological records and find ‘detailed historic environment records held by English local authorities’.
A group of volunteers at The National Trust's Workhouse in Southwell have catalogued the previously little-knownb correspondence that passed between the Workhouse and the Poor Law Commissioners in London between 1834 and 1871. The original documents are kept at The National Archives (Kew), but they can be searched by keywords and images can be downloaded online free of charge by going to www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/workhouse. For a longer news story about this project, visit Local History Online's news story about it.
Road historians want to build bridges
The Road & Road Transport History Association is holding a research workshop in Leeds City Art Gallery on Saturday 27 October 2007 with a aim of ‘forging links and fostering closer integration between those engaged in the study of local history, family history and transport history’. There will six short talks from a diverse group of transport historians about different aspects of research sources and methods of publication, followed by plenty of time for discussion with the speakers about how local and family historians can work more closely transport historians.
Leaving No Stone Unturned Research Workshop, Leeds City Art Gallery, The Headrow, Leeds, 10.30am–4.00pm, £15 plus £5 buffet lunch, contact Roger Atkinson, Newsletter Editor, Road & Road Transport History Association, 45 Dee Banks, Chester CH3 5UU, tel: 01244 351066, email: rogeratkinson@f2s.com, www.rrtha.org.uk.
Membership of R&RTHA costs £17pa for individuals including newsletter, subscriptions to Chris Hogan, Secretary, 124 Shenstone Avenue, Norton, Stourbridge, West Midlands DY8 3EJ.
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