Our popular FREE history event is back for 2023! 🤩 Hands On Heritage day on 13 May 10am - 2pm at Mansfield Central Library will bring hands-on history for all the family, with fun activities, attractions and live music. Just drop in! More info: bit.ly/3UeFnky

Did you catch our Heritage Services Manager, Ruth on Notts TV last night? 📺 Ruth talked all about our recent The National Archives Sector Archive Service Accreditation, hidden treasures in Nottinghamshire Archives and the Inspire Picture Archive 📜 Catch up: bit.ly/3Uufiy1

Keep your eyes peeled for The Great British Dig at Strelley Hall on More 4, 9pm, Thursday 6 July! Hugh Dennis & a team of archaeologists will be looking for evidence of the lost mediaeval castle hiding beneath the 18th century hall...

The moment that Robin Hood and His Merry Minifolk opened the gates of Nottingham Castle for the people again.

We're having a birthday party! 🎂 Join us on 9 September Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN's Jubilee Conference Centre for a jam-packed day of place-names papers celebrating our centenary, all topped off with a lecture from Prof. David Crystal. Registration and info at: nottingham.ac.uk/research/group…

Join Southwell Music Festival on Friday 25 August for The Voice of Freedom. Exquisite choral works performed by the Festival Voices, interspersed with poetry from poet, writer and civil rights activist Maya Angelou.

Rehearsals have finally begun for our autumn opening show The Real & Imagined History of the Elephant Man down at Nonsuch Studios 😊 We caught up with the cast & director on their first day 🎉

Heron addict … Canalside #Nottingham … Absolutely love this recycled metal sculpture spotted on this lunchtimes mooch round the block.

Join us for enriching courses this Autumn! 🍂 🌳 Shinrin Yoku Forest immersion at Feel Good Gardens, Edwinstowe. Limited spots for Sept & Oct 🧭 Map Reading Made Easy Navigate route planning and map symbols with confidence Find out more: bit.ly/3mYvnza 📷 Mitchel Hunt

Long Stairs at Kings Court, Commerce Square. One of the routes from High Pavement to Narrow Marsh. The stairs were closed in 1933 when the last houses were cleared from Narrow Marsh. A team of volunteers has since given it a makeover #Notts #Nottingham

We've uploaded the first batch of our journal to the Archaeology Data Service. All the articles in Volumes 1-54 (1897-1950) are now available to read online for free. We're working on making the remaining volumes available by spring 2024. Link to read: doi.org/10.5284/1111859

Midland History's current issue features 6 articles covering 15th to 20th c in Warwickshire and Nottinghamshire [3 articles are #OpenAccess] Friends of Centre for Midlands History & Cultures College of Arts+Law Centre for Regional and Local History Imogen Peck James Doherty Thoroton Society tandfonline.com/toc/ymdh20/cur…

Our thanks to Dr. Natasha R. Hodgson for chairing this year's Nottinghamshire History Lecture given by Erin Newman on criminality in the county during the 1630s inc. religious, disorder, economic and domestic lawbreaking recorded in the Quarter Sessions. Good luck with your PhD, Erin!

The first batch of our digitised Transactions are now available to read online. One of the first articles to be published, in Vol 1, was W. Standish's account of the earliest churches in Nottinghamshire - including Southwell Minster. Link to article here: doi.org/10.5284/1111931

Our talk this afternoon at Nottingham Mechanics will be on Viking words in the English language. It will be given by Professor Richard Dance of Cambridge University. Starts 2.30pm, all welcome.

Panelists Thoroton Society event, 'The Legacy & Lessons of the 1984-85 Miners Strike in Nottinghamshire' on its 40th anniversary, left to right Ken Bonsall, David Amos David Amos John Hess (Chair) Robert Gildea Jörg Arnold & Dr Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite UCL History

Our committee member, Dr James Wright, will be launching his new book - Historic Building Mythbusting - at the Canalhouse in Nottingham on 6 June. We're reliably informed that there are only 25% of tickets remaining! You can find out more here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/historic-bui…

Daniel King's view of Nottingham Castle, 1660. The drawing may be symbolic rather than accurate but indicates the survival of mediaeval buildings for a period between the slighting of 1651 & William Cavendish's clearance of the site in the 1670s before construction of the ducal palace