Links to relevant websites
Nottinghamshire local history
- Our Nottinghamshire
Our Nottinghamshire is a 'community history website' and encourages contributions (whether full articles or comments) on the subject of Nottinghamshire and its history from any individual or community or local history group.
- Nottinghamshire
Local History Association
News and activities, contents of the latest "Nottinghamshire
Historian" journal, and contact details for county local history
societies.
- Nottingham
Civic Society
The Society is engaged in fighting for conservation
and good planning in Nottingham, safeguarding listed buildings from
demolition or neglect, celebrating well-designed new buildings and
renovations, organising a regular and comprehensive series of guided
walks in and around historic Nottingham, publishing a range of books,
pamphlets and maps related to Nottingham.
- The Social World of Nottingham's Green Places
A community co-production history project to investigate the social history of some of Nottingham's most important parks and open spaces.
- Nottinghamshire
Family History Society
"The Notts FHS exists
to bring together all who are interested in family history research,
to help in the preservation and indexing of local genealogical
records, and in the copying and publishing of such records."
-
Genuki:
Nottinghamshire
A comprehensive collection of resources
for genealogical research. Contains an invaluable gazeteer of Nottinghamshire
towns and villages drawn from White's 1853 Directory for the county.
- Newark Civic Trust
"Newark Civic Trust is a society for people who
share an interest in environmental matters, with a specific
concern for the built environment of Newark and its surrounding
villages." The Trust has designed a series of attractive
and informative town trails which can be downloaded from the site.
- Nottinghamshire
history
Cornelius Brown's History of Nottinghamshire and many
other online materials for the Nottinghamshire local historian and
genealogist.
- Southwell
DAC Church History Project
The project aims to build a
database of historical knowledge on all of the churches of Southwell
Diocese.
- Lenton
Times/Lenton Local History Society
Material on the history
of this Nottingham suburb.
- Nottinghamshire List of Folk Plays & Related Customs
This
is a database of over 500 records on folk plays and Plough Monday
customs from Notts. and adjacent counties. Most records have abstracts,
and some sources are quoted in full. There are indexes to
places, plus an author listing.
- The Pentagon Local History Society
The Pentagon Local History Society has been in existence since 1987 and serves Elston and seven surrounding villages. It meets monthly for lectures in the winter and makes outside visits in the summer. From 2006 to 2010 the society undertook the Elston Heritage Project with the aid of a £48,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
- Woodborough
Heritage
This is the official website for the Woodborough
Photographic Recording Group. The website contains a vast and varied
historical account of the village and its people since Domesday.
The Group has over 3,600 digitally stored photos in its database,
these date from the year 1862 onwards, and since year 2000, digital
photography onwards.
- Victoria County History of Nottinghamshire
Two volumes of the VCH for Nottinghamshire were published in the first decade of the 20th century and at long last work has restarted on producing the topographical volumes. This micro-site of the VCH project includes drafts of parish histories currently being researched.
Archives and historical resources
Archaeology and historic buildings
- York Archaeology
Archaeological excavations in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and beyond.
- Council for British Archaeology East Midlands
CBA-East Midlands is an autonomous local group under the umbrella of the national Council for British Archaeology body that covers five counties — Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, and Rutland. It is an educational charity working to involve people in archaeology and to promote the appreciation and care of the historic environment for the benefit of the present and future generations.
- Nottingham and Derby Society of Architects
'The Nottingham and Derby Society of Architects champions architecture, ideas and initiatives which improve the places in which we live, and the ways in which we live for the good of the people of Nottingham, Derby and their surrounding counties.'
- Nottinghamshire Building
Preservation Trust
Information on the work of the Trust, current projects, The Dovecote
Fund, buildings in the county at risk etc.
- Nottinghamshire
Historic Churches Trust
Information on the work of the Trust, grants available, churches
helped, fund-raising activities etc.
- The Watson
Fothergill Home Page
Watson Fothergill was one of the leading local architects practicing
in the Nottingham area from 1870 to 1906.
Archaeological and historical societies