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Muge, R., ''Lawless fellows and spoony magistrates': poaching in nineteenth century Nottinghamshire', Transactions of the Thoroton Society : The journal for Nottinghamshire history and archaeology, 127, 2023, [119]-135.
(Notes: Illustrations, maps. Bibliographical references. Article provides a picture of the patterns of poaching in Nottinghamshire c.1828-1900, and the activities of the authorities to suppress it. | Publication type: Article in serial | Place: Nottinghamshire | Subject: Social history > Crime > Poaching | eBook: - | ISBN/ISSN: | Id number: 13314)
Noble, M., 'What a municipality dared to do: the public organisation of science in Nottingham, 1843-1903', Transactions of the Thoroton Society : The journal for Nottinghamshire history and archaeology, 127, 2023, [151]-165.
(Notes: Bibliographical references. Paper examines the organisation of public science in Nottingham during the latter half of the 19th century when the town's semi-formal scientific associations allied with the local authority to establish lasting administrations, principally a permanent scientific organisation in the form of University College Nottingham. It also argues that Nottingham was a pioneer in public financing of institutional science in this period. | Publication type: Article in serial | Place: Nottingham | Subject: Local government and services > Education and schools > University of Nottingham > General; Science > Scientific culture | eBook: - | ISBN/ISSN: | Id number: 13316)
Parker, D., 'Nottingham's phantom plague of 1667', The Nottinghamshire Historian, No. 112, Spring/Summer 2024, 29-35.
(Notes: Illustrations. Examines claims that Nottingham saw the last outbreak of bubonic plague in Great Britain. | Publication type: Article in serial | Place: Nottingham; | Subject: Social history > Health and disease > Infectious diseases > Bubonic plague | eBook: - | ISBN/ISSN: | Id number: 13350)
Parker, L. and Cousins, T., 'Nottingham, Wollaton Park', in King, C. (editor), 'Archaeology in Nottinghamshire 2023', , 2023, 24-26.
(Notes: Illustrations. Excavation of a demolished greenhouse or orangery depicted on 17th-century landscape paintings of the house and park. | Publication type: Contribution to article in serial | Place: Nottingham: Districts and suburbs > Wollaton | Subject: Historic environment > Monuments > Gardens, parks and urban spaces > Gardens > Garden buildings > Glasshouse> Orangery | eBook: - | ISBN/ISSN: | Id number: 13303)
Roberts, J., 'Nottingham, 18 Forest Road East', in King, C. (editor), 'Archaeology in Nottinghamshire 2023', , 2023, 20-21.
(Notes: Illustration. No. 18 comprises of a dwelling built adjacent to a former windmill (a curving brick wall to the front of the property is all that remains of the windmill). | Publication type: Contribution to article in serial | Place: Nottingham | Subject: Historic environment > Monuments > Industrial > Wind power site > Windmill | eBook: - | ISBN/ISSN: | Id number: 13300)
Roberts, J., 'Nottingham, 248-262 Huntingdon Street', in King, C. (editor), 'Archaeology in Nottinghamshire 2023', , 2023, 21-23.
(Notes: Illustrations. Double-flue medieval pottery kiln. Unusual features include floor being supported on individual pillars of clay rather than a solid pedestal and the use of jug wasters to repair the kiln wall. | Publication type: Contribution to article in serial | Place: Nottingham | Subject: Historic environment > Monuments > Industrial > Pottery production sites > Pottery kilns | eBook: - | ISBN/ISSN: | Id number: 13301)
Saunders, B., 'Early medieval rivet wheat and a horse skull burial, and a medieval animal husbandry enclosure, at Cropwell Bishop, Nottinghamshire', Transactions of the Thoroton Society : The journal for Nottinghamshire history and archaeology, 127, 2023, [61]-78.
(Notes: Illustrations, maps, plans. Bibliographical references. Exacavation of early medieval pits containing assemblages of cereal remains including rivet wheat dated to AD 780-990 and including a horse skull burial. The pits were surrounded by a late medieval enclosure system. | Publication type: Article in serial | Place: Cropwell Bishop | Subject: Historic environment > Architecture and buildings > Food and drink processing site | eBook: - | ISBN/ISSN: | Id number: 13310)
Seddon, P. R., 'Justice Peniston Whalley, Anglican Royalist : Part 1: the emergence of an Anglican justice', Transactions of the Thoroton Society : The journal for Nottinghamshire history and archaeology, 127, 2023, [94]-102.
(Notes: Illustration. Bibliographical references. The first part of the article establishes the origins and developments of Whalley's beliefs and opinions and shows how he rose to a prominent position in the government of Nottinghamshire. | Publication type: Article in serial | Place: Nottinghamshire | Subject: Biography and family history > Biography; Local government and services > Law and justice > Administration of justice > Justices of the Peace | eBook: - | ISBN/ISSN: | Id number: 13312)
Telford, A. and Hogue, J. T., 'Nottingham, Broadmarsh Centre', in King, C. (editor), 'Archaeology in Nottinghamshire 2023', , 2023, 19.
(Notes: Bibliographical refences. Numerous structural remains of buildings from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries found during demolition of the Broadmarsh Shoping Centre in 2022. | Publication type: Contribution to article in serial | Place: Nottingham | Subject: Historic environment > Monuments > Settlements > Towns | eBook: - | ISBN/ISSN: | Id number: 13299)
Tinsley, A., 'Newark on Trent, Middlebeck development', in King, C. (editor), 'Archaeology in Nottinghamshire 2023', , 2023, 17-19.
(Notes: Summary of archaeology recorded prior to a large housing development in south Newark. Neolithic pits, Grooved Ware pottery and lithic artefacts indicate Neolithic and Bronze Age activity. A complex sequence of structural remains from the later Bronze Age to the late Roman period was also uncovered, including 73 Romano-British pottery kilns. Several early medieval sunken-featured buildings were also discovered. | Publication type: Contribution to article in serial | Place: Newark | Subject: Historic environment > Monuments > Settlements > Neolithic-Romano-British settlements > Rural settlements; Historic environment > Monuments > Industrial > Pottery production sites > Pottery kilns; | eBook: - | ISBN/ISSN: | Id number: 13298)
Winyard, K., 'Wife selling and wife beating: two cases of rough justice from nineteenth-century Southwell', Transactions of the Thoroton Society : The journal for Nottinghamshire history and archaeology, 127, 2023, [137]-149.
(Notes: Illustrations. Bibliographical references. Two examples of a community self-regulating people's conduct by using conventions of trade to define marital relationships and the mob's raucous disapproval to shame and curb anti-social behaviour. | Publication type: Article in serial | Place: Southwell | Subject: Culture and recreation > Folklore and customs > Rough music | eBook: - | ISBN/ISSN: | Id number: 13315)
Wolf, A., 'Skegby, land off Tuxford Road', in King, C. (editor), 'Archaeology in Nottinghamshire 2023', , 2023, 27-28.
(Notes: Two areas of Late Iron Age to early Roman activity comprising ditches and pits. Small probably Romano-British farmstead with evidence of crop processing. Metalworking and areas of butchery waste. | Publication type: Contribution to article in serial | Place: Marnham > Skegby | Subject: Historic environment > Monuments > Settlements > Iron Age-Romano-British settlements > Rural settlements | eBook: - | ISBN/ISSN: | Id number: 13305)
Andrews, T. and Haunschild, M., ''Cops and clobbers': an attempted "knock-out for politics" between Britain and Germany', Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire, 126, 2022, [117]-131.
(Notes: Illustrations. Bibliographical references. In a series of reciprocal visits in 1935 and 1936, police officers from Nottingham in England and Stuttgart in Germany faced-off in a series of boxing competitions, drawing crowds of thousands. | Publication type: Article in serial | Place: Nottingham; | Subject: Culture and recreation > Sports > Boxing | eBook: - | ISBN/ISSN: | Id number: 13232)
Barrow, J., 'Earnwine the Priest and Earnwig the Sheriff: King's thegns in Nottinghamshire and beyond in the eleventh century', Nottingham Medieval Studies, 67, 2023, 13-38.
(Notes: Illustrations, maps. Bibliographical references. Volume titled 'Special Issue: Centres and Peripheries in Medieval Britain and France. Essays in Honour of Michael Jones'. 'Domesday Book is a valuable source for studying royal clergy in England between 1066 and 1086. This paper focuses on two of these clerics, both with landholdings in Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire, to explore what these can show us about the services they carried out for Edward the Confessor and William I.' | Publication type: Article in serial | Place: Nottinghamshire; | Subject: Religion > Pre-Reformation > Individual priests, vicars and rectors | eBook: DOI: doi-org.nottingham.idm.oclc.org/10.1484/J.NMS.5.136391 | ISBN/ISSN: | Id number: 13391)
Beckett, J., 'The University of Nottingham, St John's College, and the Bramcote Campus, 1963-1969', Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire, 126, 2022, [133]-143.
(Notes: Illustrations, map. Bibliographical references. Describes the University of Nottingham's attempts to develop a postgraduate community in Bramcote during the 1960s by acquiring properties in the village. | Publication type: Article in serial | Place: Bramcote | Subject: Local government and services > Education and schools > University of Nottingham | eBook: - | ISBN/ISSN: | Id number: 13233)
Bennett, M., 'The Glass Ceiling: Hutchinson and elusive promotion', The Seventeenth Century, 38(3), 2023, 437-447.
(Notes: Bibliographical references. Article explores John Hutchinson's inability to develop a role during the English Civil War outside the confines of Nottingham and its county or to rise above the rank of colonel. | Publication type: Article in serial | Place: Nottingham; | Subject: Military history > The English Civil Wars/The British Civil Wars > Colonel John Hutchinson | eBook: DOI: 10.1080/0268117X.2023.2195762 | ISBN/ISSN: | Id number: 13250)
Buckley, J., Country house stables of Nottinghamshire, West Bridgford : Nottinghamshire County Council, 2023, 55 p.
(Notes: Illustrations. Bibliographical references.'The country house stables of the Sherwood Forest region are fine works of architectural significance and are a reminder of the significant role the horse played in the history of Nottinghamshire's country estates.' The stables at Rufford Abbey, Rufford Farm Stud, Park Hall in Mansfield Woodhouse and Newstead Abbey for the case studies for this report. | Publication type: Monograph | Place: Rufford; Mansfield Woodhouse; Newstead | Subject: Historic environment > Architecture and building > Secular > Stables | eBook: Available online at the FlipHTML5 website | ISBN/ISSN: 9781739678029 | Id number: 13293)
Bullock, R., ''If such gentlemen as you shall be suffered to shark the county of their money it will be a pretty thing': noble and gentry responses to Elizabethan and early Stuart revenue collection in Nottinghamshire and the East Midlands', Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire, 126, 2022, [101]-115.
(Notes: Bibliographical references. Family disputes and rivalries in the nobility and gentry were made worse by pressures placed on the English counties to raise central finance by innovative means. | Publication type: Article in serial | Place: Nottinghamshire | Subject: History and archaeology > Sources > Taxation | eBook: - | ISBN/ISSN: | Id number: 13231)
Church, L., 'East Retford and the Browning connection', The Nottinghamshire Historian, No. 110, Spring/Summer 2023, 16-27.
(Notes: Illustrations. Bibliographical references. Elizabeth Wilson, lady's maid to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, had sisters who lived in Retford. | Publication type: Article in serial | Place: Retford (including East Retford) | Subject: Biography and family history | eBook: - | ISBN/ISSN: | Id number: 13136)
Crook, D., 'Sir Robert de Mauley, King Edward III and the building works at the royal manor of Clipstone, Nottinghamshire, 1348-1350', Saul, N. and Vincent, N. (editors), English Medieval Government and Administration: Essays in Honour of J.R. Maddicott, Publications of the Pipe Roll Society New Series, 65, Pipe Roll Society, 2023, 465-480.
(Notes: Illustrations, map. Bibliographical references. Robert de Mauley, a royal official, was granted the custody of the manor and park of Clipstone for life in May 1339. | Publication type: Article in monograph in series | Place: Kings Clipstone | Subject: Historic environment > Architecture and building > Secular > Royal palaces > King John's Palace, Clipstone | eBook: - | ISBN/ISSN: 9780901134875 | Id number: 13277)
Danes, L., ''The Trent Bathman': Henry Russell Tootell, 1845-1909', The Nottinghamshire Historian, No. 110, Spring/Summer 2023, 29-38.
(Notes: Illustrations. Bibliographical references. Tootell became keeper of Nottingham's Trent Baths in 1885. | Publication type: Article in serial | Place: Nottingham | Subject: Local government and services > Sports centres and swimming baths | eBook: - | ISBN/ISSN: | Id number: 13137)
Fisher, K., 'Thomas Gray (c1787-1848) : The railway visionary', Thoroton Society Newsletter, Issue 112, Summer 2023, 24-31.
(Notes: Illustrations. Published 'Observations on a General Iron Railway or Land Steam-Conveyance' in the 1820s while living in Nottingham and campaigned to promote his ideas for an integrated steam railway in Great Britain. | Publication type: Article in serial | Place: Nottingham; | Subject: Economic history > Transport and communications > Railways > General | eBook: Available online at the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire website | ISBN/ISSN: | Id number: 13234)
Fry, T., 'The singing miner', The Thoroton Society Newsletter, Issue 114, Winter 2023, 27-28.
(Notes: Alfred Webster Kingston (1875-1936), miner from Mansfield who became a famous opera singer. | Publication type: Article in serial | Place: Mansfield; Hucknall (Torkard) | Subject: Culture and recreation > Music > Opera | eBook: Available online at the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire website | ISBN/ISSN: | Id number: 13357)
Gaunt, A., 'The Sherwood Forest Archaeology Survey' in King, C. (editor), 'Archaeology in Nottinghamshire 2022', , 2022, 20-23.
(Notes: Illustrations. Bibliographical references. Project in 2022 focused heavily on recording World War Two remains within the Sherwood Forest National Nature Reserve, including a military immersion tank ('Tank Wash') and the surveying of earthworks relating to parkland features in Thoresby Park from the 17th century onwards. | Publication type: Contribution to article in serial | Place: Sherwood Forest | Subject: Historic environment > Monuments > Defence > Military training site; Historic environment > Monuments > Gardens, parks and urban spaces > Park > Hunting park | eBook: - | ISBN/ISSN: | Id number: 13222)
Gosling, R., 'Pelham Street and its lost statue', The Nottinghamshire Historian, No. 110, Spring/Summer 2023, 6-16.
(Notes: Illustrations. Statue of Jonas Hanway holding an umbrella outside shop on Pelham Street, Nottingham, owned by Samuel Page, 'umbrella manufacturer and dealer.' | Publication type: Article in serial | Place: Nottingham | Subject: Economic history > Finance and commerce > Retailing > Umbrellas | eBook: - | ISBN/ISSN: | Id number: 13135)
Gray, A., 'Facism in Nottinghamshire', The Nottinghamshire Historian, No. 111, Autumn/Winter 2023, 41-45.
(Notes: Illustrations. Short review of facism in Nottinghamshire during the 1920s and 30s which concludes it only made a limited impression on the population. | Publication type: Article in serial | Place: Nottinghamshire | Subject: Political history > Political movements > Facism | eBook: - | ISBN/ISSN: | Id number: 13349)
Hamilton, John, 'Nottinghamshire neighbours: defamation cases before the Archdeacon of Nottingham's court, 1580-1610', Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire, 126, 2022, [85]-100.
(Notes: Illustration, chart. Bibliographical references. 'To maintain or re-establish their good names late 16th and early 17th century Nottinghamshire men and women sought remedy at the Archdeacon of Nottingham's court through civil actions for defamation.' | Publication type: Article in serial | Place: Nottinghamshire | Subject: Religion > Church of England > Archdeaconry of Nottingham > Church courts | eBook: - | ISBN/ISSN: | Id number: 13230)
Hughes, A., ''The Governor's wife': women and garrisons in the English civil war', The Seventeenth Century, 38(3), 2023, 461-474.
(Notes: Bibliographical references. Article considers Lucy Hutchinson's role as the 'Governor's wife' in the garrison of Nottingham Castle during the English Civil War. | Publication type: Article in serial | Place: Nottingham | Subject: History and archaeology > Seventeenth century > Civil War | eBook: DOI: 10.1080/0268117X.2023.2197380 | ISBN/ISSN: | Id number: 13242)
Hunt, L. and Patrick, J., 'Sutton-in-Ashfield, Beck Lane' in King, C. (editor), 'Archaeology in Nottinghamshire 2022', , 2022, 26-28.
(Notes: Illustrations, plans. Excavations uncovered a possible neolithic hengiform enclosure, a C-shaped enclosure with a central cremation with six Early Bronze Age cremations in collared urns nearby and a single ring ditch with four internal (and one external) cremations of Early Bronze Age date. | Publication type: Contribution to article in serial | Place: Sutton in Ashfield | Subject: Historic environment > Monuments > Religious, ritual and funerary > Funerary site > Burials > Bronze Age cremation cemetery; Historic environment > Monuments > Religious, ritual and funerary > Henge > Hengiform monument | eBook: - | ISBN/ISSN: | Id number: 13224)
Jones, R., 'Nuisance and nuisance-makers in late medieval Nottingham: The Mickletorn Jury presentments, 13 October 1407', Nottingham Medieval Studies, 67, 2023, 199-228.
(Notes: Illustrations, maps, charts. Bibliographical references. Volume titled 'Special Issue: Centres and Peripheries in Medieval Britain and France. Essays in Honour of Michael Jones'. In late medieval Nottingham matters of nuisance were dealt with by the Mickletorn Jury. | Publication type: Article in serial | Place: Nottingham; | Subject: Local government and services > Tenurial units > Boroughs > Borough courts; Local government and services > Health and medicine > Environmental health > Sanitation > Waste disposal | eBook: DOI: doi-org.nottingham.idm.oclc.org/10.1484/J.NMS.5.136398 | ISBN/ISSN: | Id number: 13390)
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