by Administrator | Apr 4, 2021 | Quick Reads
Pubs. Remember pubs? They’re those fantastic places you can have a sit down and have a drink and see what happens. Secular churches for a community, there is often no better measure of a place than its density and quality of pubs. By this metric, Nottingham is an...
by Administrator | Feb 17, 2021 | Readers & Writers
This is Hawick Public Library, the library of a small, working class Scottish town, dominated through recent centuries by the knitwear industry. Though there had been private libraries in the town since 1762, the publicly-funded library service can be dated to 1878....
by Administrator | Jul 9, 2019 | Quick Reads
It’s 10.45 on a Saturday morning. The sun is shining, it’s going to be a hot day. It’s the last Saturday of June. The WI Hall is already packed, the Methodist Chapel has started turning people away. In the Village Hall Committee Room the volunteers...
by Administrator | May 1, 2019 | Quick Reads
Bromley House Library’s Geraldine Gray discovered a love of poetry whilst studying at Loughborough University in the 1970s. She says, “I’m fortunate to have worked in libraries all my life”. She now works at Bromley House Library in Nottingham. Her chosen...
by Administrator | Apr 29, 2019 | Quick Reads
Ross Bradshaw opened Five Leaves Bookshop in 2013. It won the Independent Bookshop of the Year Award in 2018. The publishing side of Five Leaves started in 1995. Ross jointly founded Southwell Poetry Festival in 2000, which continues as Nottinghamshire...
