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- New subscription rates in effect from 1 January 2025
- Recent news about the Thoroton Society and local history items, reports on events and lectures during Summer 2024, and reviews of recent publications (16 October 2024)
- Information on the Rosalys Coope Essay Prize (15 October 2024)
- Update to Geoffrey Bond and Thoroton Society Research Awards (10 October 2024)
- Programme of events for 2024-5 (2 October 2024)
- Thoroton Society membership leaflet (2 October 2024)
- Revised the Officers and Council of the Thoroton Society page (25 July 2024)
- Recent news about the Thoroton Society and local history items, reports on events and lectures during Spring 2024, reviews of recent publications and the following articles: Instincts and experience of 1930s Nottinghamshire borstal design (validated by modern research) by Jeremy Lodge and It’s Grimr Up North by Nick Molyneux (25 July 2024)
- Transactions of the Thoroton Society, Volume 127 (2023) (18 June 2024)
- A video of the panel discussion on the legacy of the Miners' Strike 1984/5
- Annual Report for the year ended 31st December 2023 (23 April 2024)
- Recent news about the Thoroton Society and local history items, reports on events and lectures during Winter 2023-24, and the following article: The Lady Warden of University Hall, St. Andrews by Nick Molyneux (22 April 2024)
- Update to Geoffrey Bond and Thoroton Society Research Awards (5 February 2024)
- Recent news about the Thoroton Society and local history items, reports on events and lectures during Winter 2023, reviews of recent publications and the following articles: A church for the present and of the past: St Leonard's, Newark by Jeremy Lodge and The Singing Miner by Terry Fry (17 January 2024)
- Minor changes to Geoffrey Bond and Thoroton Society Research Awards (7 November 2023)
- Recent news about the Thoroton Society and local history items, reports on events and lectures during Summer 2023, and the following articles: The Oak Ring : Do the place-names associated with a Nottinghamshire village reflect a once strong belief in the supernatural? by Nick Molyneux and A notice from Collingham and District Local History Society: Bealby, Blacksmith and Ploughmaker of North Collingham by Jeremy Lodge (18 October 2023)
- Programme of events for 2023-4 (3 September 2023)
- Transactions of the Thoroton Society, Volume 126 (2022) (9 August 2023)
- Recent news about the Thoroton Society and local history items, reports on events and lectures during Autumn 2022, reviews of recent publications and the following articles: Thomas Gray (c1787 - 1848) : The Railway Visionary by Keith Fisher; Bennerley Viaduct by Alan Green; Jeremiah Talbot : a peculiar Nottingham entrepreneur by Stephen Best and Hob in the hedgerow : the supernatural in Nottinghamshire’s place-names? by Nick Molyneux (9 August 2023)
- Annual Report for the year ended 31st December 2022 (19 June 2023)
- Recent news about the Thoroton Society and local history items, reports on events and lectures during Winter 2022-23, and reviews of recent publications (27 April 2023)
- Issues 81 (Autumn 2015) to 100 (Summer 2020) of the Thoroton Society Newsletter (3 April 2023)
- Recent news about the Thoroton Society and local history items, reports on events and lectures during Autumn 2022, reviews of recent publications and the following articles: New work on Nottingham's caves by Dr Chris King and The billeting of a dying soldier by Keith Fisher (20 January 2023)
- Recent news about the Thoroton Society and local history items, reports on events and lectures during Summer 2022, reviews of recent publications and the following articles: Willow Worship in Willoughby on the Wolds? by Nick Molyneux; The Rev. Thomas Silverwood, Nottinghamshire’s Vicar of Bray? by John Hamilton; Thoroton Society: early members: Rev. Arthur Du Boulay Hill (1850-1938) and Gertrude Esther Palmer Hill (1849-1934) by Dr Rowena Edlin-White (31 October 2022)
- Geoffrey Bond and Thoroton Society Research Awards 2023 (31 October 2022)
- The Constitution and Rules of the Thoroton Society (26 September 2022)
- Programme of events for 2022-3 (2 September 2022)
- Recent news about the Thoroton Society and local history items, report on the AGM in April 2022, reviews of recent publications and the following articles: Who put the Saxons in Saxondale? by Nick Molyneux, Greasley Castle: a misunderstood castle by James Wright and Broadmarsh by Scott Lomax (9 August 2022)
- Transactions of the Thoroton Society, Volume 125 (2021) (9 May 2022)
- Annual Report for the year ended 31st December 2021 (8 May 2022)
- Recent news about the Thoroton Society and local history items, reports on events and lectures during November 2021, and reviews of recent publications (7 May 2022)
- Recent news about the Thoroton Society and local history items, reports on events and lectures during Autumn 2021, reviews of recent publications and the following articles: Cock Fights and Cattle Drovers: Notes on the life of CHARLES HAWLEY TORR (1838 to 1923) by John Wilson, Does Belvoir Castle sit upon the Wendelberg? by Nick Molyneux, A little history of Bleasby Station by Barbara Cast and John Cam Hobhouse, Lord Byron and some lost marbles by Ted White (18 January 2022)
- Recent news about the Thoroton Society and local history items, reviews of recent publications and the following articles: Nottingham 110 years ago: 1911 - a perfect summer? by John Wilson; St John’s, The Evangelist Church, Carrington by Terry Fry, Hethbeth Bridge by Scott Lomax and Thomas Blagg - a founder member of the Society by Jeremy Lodge (17 September 2021)
- Rosalys Coope: a centenary appreciation (15 September 2021)
- Details of excursions to Creswell Crags (24 Aug) and Nottingham Castle (8 Sept) (5 August 2021)
- Thoroton Society Annual Report for the year ending 31 December 2021 (3 August 2021)
- Thoroton Society policy regarding conflicts of interest (3 August 2021)
- Recent news about the Thoroton Society and local history items, reviews of recent publications and the following articles: Ratcliffe on Soar’s 14th century spat with the Pope by Ray State; Battle Bridge, Upton by Nick Molyneux and Nottingham Castle archaeology: The Great Chapel and burials by Gareth Davies and Castle burials by Scott Lomax (18 July 2021)
- Updated list of members and officers of Council and the Research and Publications Committee members (31 May 2021)
- Details of the latest volume of the Transactions of the Thoroton Society (13 May 2021)
- Issues 1 (July 1992) to 80 (Summer 2015) of the Thoroton Society Newsletter (30 April 2021)
- Recent news about the Thoroton Society and local history items, reviews of recent publications and the following articles: Early members of the Thoroton Society: The Rev Richard Jowett Burton by John Wilson; John Hobhouse: Later 1st Baron Broughton by David Yates; Incitement to Insurrection? An Unexpected Historical Parallel by Richard A. Gaunt (25 April 2021)
- Update on Thoroton Society events in 2021 (24 April 2021)
- Recent news about the Thoroton Society and local history items, reviews of recent publications and the following articles: Early members of the Thoroton Society: Cornelius Brown by John Beckett, Another picture of Newstead Abbey by Pete Smith, The Reverend Stevens and the 1858 Thieves Wood poaching affray by Rosemary Muge and A plague on all your houses by Valerie Henstock (28 December 2020)
- Geoffrey Bond Research Awards 2021 (28 October 2020)
- The latest Record Series volume, Church, Land and People : Essays Presented to John Beckett, has been published (5 October 2020)
- Update on Thoroton Society events in 2020 (3 October 2020)
- Recent news about the Thoroton Society and local history items, reviews of recent publications and the following articles: Seeking a better life: the story of Pvt. 138615, Stanley Frederick Johnson (1890-1918) by Kevin Powell, What is required of the vicar's wife? by Margery Brown, and Laxton and the Black Death by John Beckett (5 September 2020)
- Full list of pamphlets and books published by Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Labour History Society (20 August 2020)
- Recent news about the Thoroton Society and local history items, reports on events and lectures during Spring 2020, and the following articles: An Allegorical Mass Drowning at Gainsborough by Keith Fisher, The Nottingham Vaccine Institution by Terry Fry and Nottingham’s own Lifeboat, the 'Robin Hood' by John Wilson (24 June 2020)
- Details of the latest volume of the Transactions of the Thoroton Society (19 May 2020)
- Recent news about the Thoroton Society and local history items, reports on events and lectures during Winter 2019-20, reviews of recent publications, and the following article: 'A Place to Rest' by Kevin Powell (14 April 2020)
- Annual report for year ending 31 December 2019 (20 March 2020)
- The latest Record Series volume, The Nottinghamshire Church Notes of Sir Stephen Glynne, 1825-1874, has been published (18 March 2020)
- Recent news about the Thoroton Society and local history items, reports on events and lectures during Autumn 2019, reviews of recent publications, and the following articles: Wulfstan II of Worcester and his adventures in Nottinghamshire by Ray State and Six pots and donor discovered by Nick Molyneux (4 March 2020)
- Programme of events for 2020 (22 December 2019)
- Recent news about the Thoroton Society and local history items, reports on events and lectures during Summer 2019, reviews of recent publications, and the following article: Nottinghamshire Domesday Book Anomalies by Ivan Morall (24 November 2019)
- Recent news about the Thoroton Society and local history items, reports on events and lectures during Spring 2019, and the following articles: An Artistic Mystery: Why was a Portrait of a Nottinghamshire Physician painted by an Italian Grand Master? by Adrian Henstock, Fifty years of professional archaeology in Nottingham by Scott Lomax and The Rector’s Gift: Integrating church development and village landscape at Car Colston (Nottinghamshire) and elsewhere by Paul Everson and David Stocker (4 July 2019)
- Details of the latest volume of the Transactions of the Thoroton Society (4 June 2019)
- Geoffrey Bond Research Award 2019 (30 May 2019)
- List of Nottinghamshire Friendly Societies, 1724-1913 compiled by Dr Julie O'Neil (12 May 2019)
- Annual report for year ending 31 December 2018 (3 April 2019)
- Recent news about the Thoroton Society and local history items, reports on events and lectures during Winter 2018, reviews of recent publications, obituaries and memories of the late Dr Rosalys Coope and the following article: Elizabethan Wall Paintings in The Saracen’s Head Hotel, Southwell by John Lock (3 April 2019)
- News about the Thoroton Society and local history items, reports on events and lectures during Autumn 2018, reviews of recent publications, and the following articles: A Village at War: North Muskham 1914-1917 by Madge Brown; Sidney Giles, a Sneinton Poet, 1814-1846 by Rowena Edlin-White and Sir Thomas Hewett, a man of Nottinghamshire and beyond by Megan Doole (3 April 2019)
- News about the Thoroton Society and local history items, reports on events and lectures during Summer 2018, reviews of recent publications (2 October 2018)
- News about the Thoroton Society and local history items, reports on events and lectures during Winter 2017-18, reviews of recent publications and the following article: The heliochronometers at Rufford Abbey : Remembering King Edward VII by John Wilson (6 July 2018)
- Details of the latest volume of the Transactions of the Thoroton Society (11 June 2018)
- Recent news about the Thoroton Society and local history items, reports on events and lectures during Winter 2017-18, reviews of recent publications and the following articles: Gibbet Hill, Shelford by Ivan Morrel and Wyville School and murder by Terry Fry (2 May 2018)
- Annual report for year ending 31 December 2017 (11 April 2018)
- Recent news about the Thoroton Society and local history items, reports on events and lectures during Autumn 2017, reviews of recent publications and the following articles: Henry Ashwell by George J. Murfet, The Gibbs family, clock and watch makers of Nottingham by John Wilson and A Kneeton enigma by Ivan Morrel (17 January 2018)
- Recent news about the Thoroton Society and local history items, reports on events and lectures during Summer 2017, and the following articles: Who’s your tram? (Part Two) by Janet Wilson and Nottingham's first local news story by Keith Fisher (20 September 2017)
- Recent news about the Thoroton Society and local history items, reports on events and lectures during Spring 2017, reviews of recent publications, and the following articles: Aspects of the Medieval Road from Nottingham to Blyth and York by Brian Rich, Who’s your tram? (Part One) by Janet Wilson, The career of a remarkable nurse - Mary Ann Winfield Bannister by Jill Oakland, A View of Newstead Abbey from Norton Conyers by Dr Rosalys Coope and Pete Smith, John Hallam - “A poor mean Country Joyner” of Nottinghamshire by Megan Doole (27 June 2017)
- Information on the latest Record Series volume, The Welbeck Atlas: William Senior’s maps of the estates of William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, 1629-1640 edited by Stephanos Mastoris with an interactive digital flashcard edited by Andrew Nicholson and details of the latest volume of the Transactions of the Thoroton Society (28 May 2017)
- Election of officers and members of Council at the Thoroton Society's AGM held on 29th April 2017 (18 May 2017)
- Recent news about the Thoroton Society and local history items, reports on events and lectures during Winter 2016-17, and the following articles: A snapshot in time - Laxton in peace and war by Prof David E. James, Dr John Storer, 1747-1837 by Terry Fry, Wollaton Cottage Survey by The Wollaton Historical and Conservation Society, and Wiseton Hall: a Protestant martyr, and a Rhode Island architect by Megan Doole (5 May 2017)
- Annual report for year ending 31 December 2016 (1 April 2017)