At our Angel Row History Forum on Tuesday 14th February, 2017 in the Local Studies Library, 1st Floor, Central Library Nottingham Nicola Ramsdale, Project Support Officer with Nottinghamshire Deaf Society gave a talk on the development of the Hearing Deaf Voices project.

The Hearing Deaf Voices Project was funded through the Heritage Lottery Fund and was designed to celebrate the history of the Deaf Community in Nottinghamshire, capturing memories, experiences, histories and heritage. It included an exhibition in the Central Library between 1st and 29th March 2017, interviews with community members; archiving photographs, videos, documents, and items of interest. The project ran from April 2016 to March 2017.

Nottinghamshire Deaf Society (NDS) is a registered charity that works with deaf, hard of hearing and deafened people of all ages across Nottinghamshire and the East Midlands, focusing on ability rather than disability. The Society is based in a Grade II listed building on Forest Road West and celebrated its 125th Anniversary in 2015.

The video is also available at http://nottsdeaf.org.uk/hearing-deaf-voices/

For more information about the project please contact Mo Cooper

mo.cooper@nottsdeaf.org.uk

0115 970 0516

WEA East Midlands is running a course at Rumbletums Cafe, 2a Victoria Street, Kimberley NG16 2NH to examine the fascinating relationship of Ireland with the British Isles and Europe. The course will run  from 3:15pm to 4:45pm every Tuesday from 19th September to 21 November (10 meetings).

• Ancient texts such as the Book of Kells form part of the study.
• The takeover of Ireland by Scandinavians and Normans is worthy of debate.
• Ireland’s role in the dynastic struggles and the English Civil War are important, with connections to the East Midlands
• The course will finish with the development and implementation of the Protestant Ascendancy and how that lead to significant change.
• Charismatic figures like Wolf Tone and Oliver Cromwell will be amongst the individuals included.

The course tutor, Ann Parker, was a lecturer in the Adult Education Department of Nottingham University. A specialist in modern history, Ann has worked with the Atlantic Council, the Defence Academy and NATO.

The course fee is £57.75 and is FREE to those on benefits.

More information from WEA East Midlands, 39 Mapperley Road, Nottingham NG3 5AQ

Phone 0115 9628400 or 0300 303 3464

Issue 05, August 2017, is available now FREE from your local library.

If you need copies for your local history group please contact John Parker chairman@nlha.org.uk who will arrange distribution.

In this edition:

• Entertaining the Community: Hospital fundraising before the NHS.
• Political biographies of the early women councillors on Nottingham City Council 1920-1930.
• Preserving local history on film.
• Young criminals on the march through the East Midlands.
• The Row that Barber built.
• ‘Danse Macabre’.
• East Midlands Airport.
• The stones of Wakerley Bridge.
• The social world of Nottinghams’s green spaces.
• The Fearon fountain

Heritage Open Days is England’s largest festival of history and culture, bringing together over 2,500 organisations, 5,000 events and 40,000 volunteers. Every year for four days in September, places across the country throw open their doors to celebrate their heritage, community and history. It’s your chance to see hidden places and try out new experiences – and it’s all FREE.

Heritage Open Days is England’s largest festival of history and culture, bringing together over 2,500 organisations, 5,000 events and 40,000 volunteers. Every year for four days in September, places across the country throw open their doors to celebrate their heritage, community and history. It’s your chance to see hidden places and try out new experiences – and it’s all FREE.

Situated on Main Street, next door to the Baptist Church, is a Folk Museum dedicated to Victorian Calverton.  Inside, this old Stockinger’s cottage, there are four rooms dedicated to the periods furniture and clothing, fossils and kitchen, living room and bedroom exhibits. Also on display is an actual Frameworker’s knitting machine. As started here, way back in the 16th Century, by William Lee. Tapestry pictures of village buildings can also be found on display.  A taped commentary is included in the tour.

The Calverton Folk Museum was created from a four-roomed derelict cottage which somehow escaped demolition when many of Calverton’s vernacular buildings were sadly bulldozed. In it we have endeavoured to create the atmosphere of the davs when a stocking frame was the lifeline of a man and his family. All members of the family had to work. Even at the age of 9 years little girls had to seam and boys melt the zinc and lead for the needle molds. Visitors to the museum are amazed at the hard life people endured – brick floors, darnp walls, smoky chimney. Water had to be carried from a well many yards away. If you visit us we can show you these things. Beautiful work was produced on the hand frames which were set next to a window. Illumination at night was provided by a paraffin lamp or candle set behihd a glass globe filled with spring water and Aqua Fortis which provided magnification across the needles. One resident remembers, as a twelve year old girl, working on her father’s frame and also recalls that he once made stockings for Queen Victoria. Many of the stockings, gloves and undergarments were sent all over the world, patientlv created for a pittance bv a man and his family, living often in overcrowded conditions.

Calverton Folk Museum, Main Street Calverton NG14 6FG (next to the Baptist Church)

Open on the last Sunday in the month April – September, 2pm – 4pm, Adults £2 Children £0.50

Open at other times by appointment. For more information please contact Chris Peck 0115 9654843

This September the National Memorial Arboretum will hold a two-day symposium to coincide with their on-going World War I centenary events and activities.

The diverse programme of seminars, interactive workshops and site tours, aimed at academics, students and historians, will examine the social changes wrought by the conflict helping to create a greater understanding of how these changes came about.

As well as examining the changing role of women during the conflict – focussing on the care of the wounded on both the Western and Home fronts, other themes will consider the Home Front at a more local level. Topics to be explored by a wealth of speakers include the female vote, food crises, attitudes towards conscientious objectors, the changing role of the country estate house as convalesce homes, and the development of female labour in traditionally male roles.

The programme will also offer opportunities to explore the NMA galleries and to participate in workshops and guided tours of the 150-acre site.

Click here to find out more about our ‘What the War Did’ symposium.

The National Memorial Arboretum’s symposium is being organised in partnership with the parent charity, The Royal British Legion, and is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Ticket prices include tea, coffee and a buffet lunch on both days.

Date: 26 September 2017 – 27 September 2017

Time: 9am – 5pm

Venue: National Memorial Arboretum, Croxall Road, Alrewas, Staffordshire DE13 7AR
Tel: 01283 245 100
Email: info@thenma.org.uk

Admission: £85 per person, Student: £35 (ID Required)

Book Now

The concept of conservation areas was introduced in England, Wales and Scotland by the Civic Amenities Act 1967 through a private members bill led by Lord Duncan Sandys.  Civic Voice holds the annual Sandys Lecture in his name.  When legislation was introduced there was widespread public concern over the pace of redevelopment in our historic towns and cities.

Today there are over 10,000 conservation areas in the UK (approximately 9,300 in England, 500 in Wales, 650 in Scotland and 60 in Northern Ireland) reflecting the popularity of this legislative tool in identifying and protecting our most valued historic places.

Conservation area designation essentially controls the demolition of unlisted buildings over a certain size and works to protect trees, restricts permitted development rights on dwelling houses and tightens regulations on advertising AND places a statutory duty on local planning authorities to pay special attention to preserving or enhancing the character or appearance of conservation areas while undertaking their planning duties.

Designating a conservation area should not be seen as an end in itself: we live in a changing world and for the historic environment to survive and continue to be cherished it needs to be positively managed.

Civic Voice calls upon communities across the country to come together and say “My Conservation Area Matters”, and asked groups across the country to help use 2017 as a focus to celebrate 50 years of conservation areas and to participate in local and national events to recognise how conservation areas have helped keep many of our towns distinctive.

From The Big Conservation Conversation, Civic Voice

see http://www.civicvoice.org.uk/news/the-big-conservation-conversation/

You may already be aware of the current ambitious project to ‘re-imagine’ the National Trust Workhouse at Southwell.The National Trust has spent the last 2 years developing a vision for the future and defining how it can enrich the experience of visitors on many different levels.

The National Trust is  now starting to test some of the interpretation ideas and over the next two years will be implementing some significant developments across the whole site.

You can get an explanatory leaflet here or visit their website at https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/the-workhouse-southwell