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 | Mar 16, 2022 | Quick Reads
What if you asked a library that eternal triple-question – ‘Who am I? Where do I come from? Where am I going?’ – how would it answer? Who am I? I am a library, a treasure-house of books, a sanctuary for study. They say of me that I am a world of books and...
by Administrator | Jan 17, 2022 | News & Press
Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature understands the financial pressures the City Council is under, as it recovers from the ravages of Covid and long-term cuts to the central government settlement We are also proud of the commitment the Council has made to building a...
by Administrator | Feb 17, 2021 | Readers & Writers
This is Hawick Public Library, the library of a small, working class Scottish town, dominated through recent centuries by the knitwear industry. Though there had been private libraries in the town since 1762, the publicly-funded library service can be dated to 1878....
by Administrator | Dec 10, 2020 | Quick Reads
Book buying for us in the late 1960’s was limited. Outside of school reading was more likely to be, weekly comics and bubble gums packs with gory mock photo cards about the American Civil War, later followed by the unsavoury combination of the weekly New Musical...
