by Administrator | Sep 20, 2021 | Quick Reads
D.H. Lawrence: synonymous with Nottingham and the collieries of the county, with the notorious Lady Chatterley’s Lover, with censorship and sex. A literary outsider who divides scholars, students and readers around the world. D.H. Lawrence splits opinion, and...
by Administrator | Mar 2, 2020 | Quick Reads
‘The Bottoms consisted of six blocks of miners’ dwellings, two rows of three, like the dots on a blank-six domino, and twelve houses in a block. This double row of dwellings sat at the foot of the rather sharp slope from Bestwood, and looked out, from the attic...
by Administrator | Apr 1, 2019 | News & Press
A startling new version of the controversy soaked Lady Chatterley’s Lover has been uncovered in DH Lawrence’s papers that shows how after long battles with the uptight censors, he rewrote his most notorious novel as a book for budding amateur...
by Administrator | Aug 6, 2018 | Quick Reads
In many ways those that D H Lawrence loved, he then left. But they remained burnt into his memory and work. In his novels he is often criticised for the highly personal characteristics of ‘real people’ he has clearly recalled from his life living in Eastwood and...
by Administrator | Oct 30, 2017 | Quick Reads
Diggin’ Notts 1. The Grave-Dwelling Reader When Nottingham’s General Cemetery opened, one eccentric gentleman dug his own grave. He would use the hole to sit in, often reading or getting drunk. The man became a local celebrity and attracted a crowd,...
