Race and Rights: Ferguson Part 4
December 17, 2014
Post by Hannah Jeffery Below is the fourth of a multi-part series responding to events in Ferguson – the protests and civil disorder that began the day after the fatal shooting of an African American man, Michael Brown, by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, on August 9, 2014, and continued after the decision …
Race and Rights: Ferguson Part 3
December 15, 2014
Post by James Brookes Below is the third of a multi-part series responding to events in Ferguson – the protests and civil disorder that began the day after the fatal shooting of an African American man, Michael Brown, by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, on August 9, 2014, and continued after the decision …
Race and Rights: Ferguson Part 2
December 12, 2014
Post by Timo Schrader Below is the second of a multi-part series responding to events in Ferguson – the protests and civil disorder that began the day after the fatal shooting of an African American man, Michael Brown, by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, on August 9, 2014, and continued after the decision …
Race and Rights: Ferguson Part 1
December 11, 2014
Post by Hannah-Rose Murray Below is the first of a multi-part series responding to events in Ferguson – the protests and civil disorder that began the day after the fatal shooting of an African American man, Michael Brown, by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, on August 9, 2014, and continued after the decision …
Classics in graphics at comic con
November 21, 2014
by Professor Stephen Hodkinson Last weekend I attended and spoke at my first-ever comics convention, the well-known Thought Bubble con at Leeds. It was quite a revelation of a much-underestimated and increasingly gender-balanced facet of contemporary popular culture. Now, I must confess that I’ve read very few comics since I was a boy back in …
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 …
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