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 | Apr 10, 2020 | Quick Reads
The idea of the Mechanics Institutes came in the late 18th century when two professors at the University of Glasgow started offering free lectures to the city’s workers. A book by Henry Brougham addressed to the working classes and their employers,...
by Administrator | Apr 3, 2020 | Quick Reads
Nottingham, city of a thousand poets, and home to more poetry publishers per head than any comparable city in the world. Distinguished poets, publishers and neighbours John Lucas and Jenny Swann have been key players on our poetry scene for years. It was back in 1964...
by Administrator | Jul 29, 2019 | Quick Reads
He and NUCoL organised a crowdfunder to erect a plaque outside Stanley’s former home in Sherwood on the centenary. The same day, Beeston’s Shoestring Press publishes the first ever collection of the novelist’s poems, Poetry and Old Age. Crowdfunded copies of...
by Administrator | Jul 29, 2019 | Quick Reads
From the mid-1970s until the year before his death in 2009, Stanley and I wrote to each other with some regularity. A number of his letters, especially ones that accompanied the sending of an inscribed copy of a new book, were scarcely more than notes, others more...
