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...Read
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A story that needed to be told: Christine Bridges and ‘POW on the Sumatra Railway’
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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...Read
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. ...Read
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...Read
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 ...Read
20th Century Notts: 1915-1917
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...Read
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...Read
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...Read
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 ...Read
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...Read
“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...Read
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...Read
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.....Read
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...Read