Posts tagged as "History"

A story that needed to be told: Christine Bridges and ‘POW on the Sumatra Railway’
A story that needed to be told: Christine Bridges and ‘POW on the Sumatra Railway’
A story of captivity, release and a decades long struggle to have it published. In a guest post from...
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A Writer Called Arthur Mee
A Writer Called Arthur Mee
On the first day of (social justice ) Christmas, my true love brought to me.... a writer called Arth...
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20th Century Notts: 1924-1926
20th Century Notts: 1924-1926
With Lawrence away we reach the mid-1920s, just as Graham Greene and Dorothy Whipple come to town. ...
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20th Century Notts: 1921-1923
20th Century Notts: 1921-1923
The next instalment of our guide to the last century's local literature sees the publication of a di...
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20th Century Notts: 1918-1920
20th Century Notts: 1918-1920
As the Great War and a deadly influenza take their toll, a children's newspaper is launched and one ...
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20th Century Notts: 1915-1917
20th Century Notts: 1915-1917
A literary masterpiece is banned in the wind of war....
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20th Century Notts: 1912-1914
20th Century Notts: 1912-1914
Sons, lovers and the wife of a former teacher. D. H. Lawrence is busy as our 20th-Century-travels pa...
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20th Century Notts: 1909-1911
20th Century Notts: 1909-1911
Our journey through the 20th Century continues with the birth of one of our most prolific authors an...
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20th Century Notts: 1906-1908
20th Century Notts: 1906-1908
Our year-by-year tour of the 20th Century continues with the education and entertainment of young re...
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20th Century Notts: 1903-1905
20th Century Notts: 1903-1905
The second of our new feature taking us through the last century, year-by-year. This week: a masked ...
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20th Century Notts: 1900-1902
20th Century Notts: 1900-1902
In the first of a weekly feature, John Baird takes us on a year-by-year journey through literary Not...
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“A Great Leap in the Dark”: Thomas Hobbes
“A Great Leap in the Dark”: Thomas Hobbes
He was a writer and philosopher whose work attempted to define what it was to be civilised, which re...
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Two Notts Books That Changed The World
Two Notts Books That Changed The World
Nottinghamshire has already punched above its weight internationally, but can we claim to have had a...
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Lucy Hutchinson: A Truly Revolutionary Writer
Lucy Hutchinson: A Truly Revolutionary Writer
Well before Byron, long before Lawrence, a Nottingham writer was living a truly revolutionary life.....
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Walking With Writers
Walking With Writers
Gold Star Guides Felicity Whittle, Blue Badge Tourist Guide, tells us why she's set up a dedicated l...
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