Can we make Nottingham a slavery-free city?
November 1, 2016
Abolishing modern slavery is at the centre of Theresa May’s personal policy agenda. National Government has mainly focussed on the implications for foreign policy, trade and development, and police enforcement, as well as responding to reports from the UK’s first independent anti-slavery commissioner, Kevin Hyland. However slavery in the UK is principally encountered and addressed …
Being Human 2015: Consider Smell
November 10, 2015
Post by Julia Feuer-Cotter. Consider Smell is a series of events travelling from Nottingham to London 18 November to 22 November as part of Being Human 2015, a big public festival. Through a series of activities that explore the human sense of smell across space and time, participants will discover new aspects to this often …
Being Human 2015: Lawrence, Class and Culture
November 3, 2015
A talk by Professor Neil Roberts (Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield, and Honorary Professor of D. H. Lawrence Studies at the University of Nottingham), D.H. Lawrence Heritage Centre, Eastwood, Wednesday 18 November 2015, 7-8.30pm A whole biography industry has grown up around the extraordinary story of D. H. Lawrence’s rise …
Behold the head of a traitor!
June 3, 2015
Post by Richard Gaunt, Curator of Rebellion and Social Justice In April, I began a three-year residency with Nottingham City Museums and Galleries as their new ‘Curator of Rebellion and Social Justice’. My title is always a cause of conversation and many of my new colleagues are envious of the impeccably ‘cool’ credentials it bestows. …
We Are Many
November 19, 2014
We Are Many, a documentary about the biggest protest in history, is previewing at Broadway Cinema on 23rd November at 8.30 Director’s Blog – Amir Amirani How did someone who came to Nottingham as a fresh faced 17 year old, planning to be a scientist, end up making a documentary about the biggest protest in …
Robin is in all of us
November 18, 2014
At the well attended and very well enjoyed “Subversion and Rebellion: Ballads and Storytelling: the case of Robin Hood” talk yesterday evening, one of our panellists Pippa Hennessey wrote the following fantastic poem in response to questions regarding the existence of Robin Hood and why the stories continue to be retold; By Pippa Hennessy, …
Riot 1831 talk and after hours viewing event
October 27, 2014
By Associate Professor Richard Gaunt, Department of History Nottingham City Museums and Galleries has recently launched its new Riot1831 Gallery at Nottingham Castle. Through a combination of new technology, items from the museum’s collection and loan items from other repositories, the events of Monday 10 October 1831 – when the Castle was burned down by …
Hammer of Defiance
October 22, 2014
By Andy Barrett, Excavate We have started rehearsals on our re-working of The Hammer of Defiance, which tells of an early Luddite attack, in Sutton in Ashfield in 1811, and the subsequent trial in 1812, of Benjamin Hancock and six others. The original performances of this community play, as all of the shows that Excavate …
Three FREE events at D.H. Lawrence Heritage for this year’s Festival of Humanities
October 20, 2014
By Carolyn Melbourne, D.H. Lawrence Heritage, Broxtowe Borough Council Writers go in and out of fashion but D.H. Lawrence remains relevant. Described as ‘The prophet of the Midlands’, there is a visionary aspect to his writing; his attitudes to industry, capitalism, nature and of course sex were out of kilter for his own time but now …
The Luddites
October 15, 2014
By Professor John Beckett, Department of History ‘Luddite’ is a term we use today of people (perhaps including ourselves) who resist the introduction of new technology or machinery, preferring things to continue to be done as they always have been. The Luddite movement, between 1811 and 1819, was not quite so clear cut. Luddites, followers …
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