by Administrator | Oct 7, 2021 | News & Press
After over seven years as Chair of Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature Dr David Belbin has stepped down from the role. David, a successful writer and academic, and excellent figurehead for Nottingham and literature over the past decade, was part of the original team...
by Administrator | Apr 16, 2021 | Readers & Writers
One of the many curses of the pandemic has been the loss of John Holmes’ much-loved Sunday show on Radio Nottingham. Countless members of Nottingham’s literature scene have appeared there over the years, flattered by John’s consummate skills as an interviewer. John,...
by Administrator | Dec 11, 2020 | Quick Reads
DB: David Belbin, Author; Creative Writing lecturer and former trustee of Nottingham Playhouse / PH: Pippa Hennessy; former development director at Nottingham Writers’ Studio / CA: Catharine Arnold; Writer, former councillor and Sheriff of Nottingham...
by Administrator | Sep 5, 2020 | Quick Reads
Where Broadway Cinema now stands was the Broad Street Wesleyan Chapel. Erected in 1837 with its impressive Corinthian columns, the venue witnessed the conversion of a fifteen-year-old pawnbroker’s apprentice called William Booth. He later wrote ‘Darkest England and...
by Administrator | Sep 5, 2020 | Quick Reads
Broadway has been at the heart of my life since the month I arrived in Nottingham. I joined Nottingham Film Theatre, as it then was, in October 1976, tempted by their Kenneth Anger season. I’m an avid movie goer, averaging at least once a week. Broadway also plays a...
