by Administrator | May 18, 2022 | Quick Reads
In 1882, Nottingham Industrialist and political radical Samuel Morley noted that the new Nottingham City Library situated in what is now Nottingham Trent University’s Arkwright Building was only open to those over the age of 15. Understanding that a love of books is...
by Administrator | Oct 8, 2018 | Quick Reads
1982 Portrait of Nottingham by Emrys Bryson (revised edition 1982) ‘Mr Bryson has put Nottingham in print, and between covers, so that whoever carries this book about will have the soul of the city as an intimate companion,’ wrote Alan Sillitoe in his foreword to the...
by Administrator | Apr 26, 2017 | Readers & Writers
Last month, book blogger Zoe Toft published a post on Birmingham’s ‘Ghost Libraries’ – buildings originally built as libraries that now serve another purpose. Zoe usually blogs about children’s books, so when I met up with her a few days after the post had...
