Links
Local History Online's links pages have a very large number of links which might be useful to local historians in Nottinghamshire, but here are a few more specifically local links, and a few general ones, starting with local history societies in the county and thereafter grouped according to subject. If you would like to have a link included on this page, please email the Web Editor.
National organisations dealing with local history
Societies in Nottinghamshire
Beeston & District Local History Society
Burton Joyce & Bulcote Local History Society
Calverton Preservation & History Society
East Leake & District Local History Society
Farnsfield Local History Society
Gotham & District Local History Society
Jacksdale Area Culture & Heritage
Keyworth & District Local History Society
Nottinghamshire Family History Society
Papplewick Pumping Station Trust
Pentagon Society (covers Elston Shelton Sibthorpe East Stoke & Syerston)
Ruddington Local History & Amenity Society
Sherwood Archaeological Society
Shireoaks & District Local History Group
Southwell & District Local History Society
Warsop Vale Local History Society
West Bridgford & District Local History Society
Woodborough Local History Group
National organisations dealing with local history
British Association for Local History
The Institute of Historical Research
The Victoria County History and its Heritage Lottery-funded Explore England's Past website which provides free access to the local history materials produced by academics and volunteers as part of county projects.
Archives, Libraries & Museums
The British Library has an extensive site, including British Newspapers 1800–1900, where it’s possible to explore over two million newspaper pages from forty-nine national and regional UK titles. Although there are no newspapers listed from Nottingham, for instance, a search on the name Lenton came up with 32 entries, although not all were for Lenton in Nottingham.
Community Archives & Heritage Group
The National Monuments Record is the public archive of English Heritage holding over 10 million photographs, records, plans, drawings, reports and publications.
The 1901 census website is managed by Genes Reunited.
The Manuscripts and Special Collections Library at Nottingham University, and its page of links to related organisations.
The Flintham Museum — ‘Rural life through the eyes of a village shopkeeper’ .
Archaeology
The Council for British Archaeology
PastScape has over 400,000 searchable records of England’s archaeological, architectural and maritime sites.
Genealogy
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Genuki — UK & Ireland Genealogy.
The Society of Genealogists has the largest family history research centre in the UK.
Nottinghamshire Family History Links — from the website Genealogy-Links.co.uk.
History: national
The BBC's history pages — including People's War.
Historypin (‘pin your history to the world’) is an eclectic collection of worldwide reminiscences and pictures which aims to ‘bring people together from across different generations, cultures and places’. There are some Nottinghamshire postings, including historic street scenes which can then be laid over a Google view of the same place.
legislation.gov.uk — ‘the official home of UK legislation from 1267 to the present day’.
Measuring Worth is website is devoted to historic valuations and exchange rates.
The Poor Law and the Workhouse — especially in Worksop.
Researching Historic Buildings in the British Isles is a must for anyone with an interest in the subject and has lots of useful links to other websites.
A Vision of Britain through Time includes maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions of Britain between 1801 and 2001.
The War Memorials Trust works for the protection and conservation of war memorials in the UK.
History: regional & local
The Heart of Albion Press — including publications about local history in the East Midlands.
The Media Archive for Central England publishes an on-line newsletter as a pdf file.
The Hyson Green History Project, centred on the former Hyson Green flats (where Asda is now) was launched this year.
Fothergill Watson (he later changed his name to Watson Fothergill) was one of the leading local architects practicing in the Nottingham area from about 1870 to 1906.
Our Mansfield and Area has ‘history, memories, photographs and comments about Mansfield and the surrounding area’.
The Nottinghamshire History website ‘is designed to offer local and family historians a wealth of material on all aspects of the county's history and also act as a gateway to other useful resources.’
Nottinghamshire History Blog has news, events, publications and snippets of information relating to Nottinghamshire's history.
The Nottingham Labour Movement
Our Nottinghamshire is ‘a new interactive local history website’ which has recently been established by Nottinghamshire County Council.
People's Histreh is a blog from Nottingham Radical History Group.
The Nottinghamshire Historic Churches Trust was founded in 1986 and gave its first grants in 1987. It raises money to grant-aid historic churches and chapels in Nottinghamshire and is non-denominational.
Nottinghamshire National Union of Mineworkers’ Banners
Nottinghamshire National Union of Mineworkers’ History
Nottinghamshire Oral History is a page of information, about oral history projects across the county, from the website of the East Midlands Oral History Archive.
Nottinghamshire’ s Rainbow Heritage is a Lottery funded gay history project.
The Nottingham Caves Survey is part of the Nottingham Caves Regeneration Project, which involves surveying the caves with 3D laser scanners. There are now a number of amazing ‘flythroughs’ some of the cave systems.
Thurgarton’s History — exploring the history of this Nottinghamshire village.
