by Administrator | Feb 7, 2021 | Quick Reads
The Forest Recreation Ground, about a mile north of the city centre, was once the southernmost part of Sherwood Forest. Best known for being Goose Fair’s annual home and a site for park-and-riders, for over 300 years the Forest has hosted amateur sport. The son of a...
by Administrator | Sep 27, 2020 | Quick Reads
Many Nottingham writers have taken inspiration from their memories of Southwell, including D.H. Lawrence, Alan Sillitoe, and B.S. Johnson, whose experimental book-in-a-box, ‘The Unfortunates’ (1969), includes Brian’s recollections of visiting Southwell with June,...
by Administrator | Aug 21, 2020 | Quick Reads
Nottingham Writers’ Club (NWC) was established in 1927 after a group of writers known as the Nottingham Writers’ Circle placed adverts in the ‘Evening Post’ and ‘Nottingham Guardian’. Still going strong, the Club can count Helen Cresswell, Alan Sillitoe and a largely...
by Administrator | Mar 5, 2020 | Quick Reads
ad the biggest impact on the world? Here are some World Changing Works (with a local connection). Darkest England and the Way Out (1890) by William Booth ‘Helping the Homeless’ The founder of The Salvation Army, William Booth, was born in Nottingham and...
by Administrator | Dec 22, 2019 | Quick Reads
Sillitoe’s follow-up to Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (SNSM) is a strange beast, a chimeric compromise spawned from his publishers wanting another sensational ‘Angry Young Man’ book, against Sillitoe’s desire to broaden his palette and show that the literary...
