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To mark Local and Community History Month in May, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has a special page on its website to demonstrate how the Oxford DBN can be used for local and family history research.

Follow the links to news about local history in Nottinghamshire.

Margaret Woodhead

What about the workers?

The Association's Spring Meeting 27 March 2010 had 4 excellent speakers on the theme of What about the workers? Aspects of an earlier working class.


Sam Collenette

Introducing Sam

Sam Collenette, Local Studies Manager for Nottinghamshire County Council’s Libraries, Archives and Information Service, introduces herself.


Drury Hill, Nottingham

From these pages forty years ago…

We take a look at what appeared in the pages of the Association's Newsletter forty years ago.


Dave Thompson reading the Notts Historian

Two Daves and the 1984 Miners' Strike

Two ex-miners visit the new exhibition at the Galleries of Justice in Nottingham.


Modern building records find a new home in archives

A look at some of the 85 items which have been desposited in the Archives office during the last six months.

Reinventing local history in Nottinghamshire

Back in January 2009, The Thoroton Society (TTS) and the Nottinghamshire Local History Association (NLHA) commissioned Sue Clayton to look at 'The Current and Future of Local History Education and Research in Nottinghamshire'. The main points are summarised here.

News items in brief

From William Gladstone to the Friends of Newark Cemetery.

Running NLHA in 2009

A summary of recent NLHA Executive Committee meetings.

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