Nottingham: a history of Britain’s global university
July 6, 2016
Professor John Beckett, Professor in our Department of History, writes about his recently published book – Nottingham: a history of Britain’s global university. The University of Nottingham opened its doors for the first time in 1881, but in those days it was little more than a technical college with purpose-built premises in the centre of …
‘Killers of the King’ with Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer
May 14, 2015
On Tuesday 12 May, the University and the Department of History were delighted to welcome Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, to deliver a lecture entitled ‘Killers of the King’. The lecture dealt with the subject matter of Earl Spencer’s new book, Killers of the King: The Men who Dared Execute Charles I, which tells the shocking …
