The Nottinghamshire Bibliography Online
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The first comprehensive bibliography of Nottinghamshire history was compiled by Michael Brook and published by the Thoroton Society in 2002. Brook’s bibliography includes 8707 items relating to “books (and discrete portions of books), pamphlets, periodical articles, and academic theses at doctoral and master’s levels” published before 1998. The printed version of the Bibliography has been converted to a downloadable PDF (available on the Thoroton Society website) that is searchable at a basic level but cannot be easily updated.
At a meeting in December 2011 between Professor John Beckett, John Wilson, Adrian Henstock and Andy Nicholson of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire and Dorothy Johnston and Corinne Fawcett of the Manuscripts & Special Collections, University of Nottingham it was agreed that a project should be funded to update Brook's bibliography and make it accessible though the Internet.
The aim of the Nottinghamshire Bibliography Online project is to provide a single web-based means of access to all bibliographical sources for the history of the city of Nottingham and county of Nottinghamshire, including published books, journal articles, unpublished theses/dissertations and ‘grey’ literature such as archaeological reports and local authority conservation appraisals.