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The Miners of Nottinghamshire, 1914-1944: A History of the Nottingham Miners' Unions (Allen & Unwin, 1962). Murfet, George J. "Nottingham and the Leen Valley: bleaching and dyeing in a historical context." Journal of the Society of Dyers and Colourists 107.10 (1991): 348–356. Wood, Alfred Cecil. A history of Nottinghamshire (SR Publishers, 1947).
In Anglo-Saxon times, around 600 AD, the site formed part of the Kingdom of Mercia, where it may have been known as "Tig Guocobauc" (though this is only known from the later 9th-century account of the Welsh cleric Asser, active at the court of Alfred the Great) meaning in Brythonic "a place of cave dwellings", until falling under the rule of a Saxon chieftain named Snot, [15] whereby it was ...
History, gazetteer, and directory of Nottinghamshire, and the town and county of the town of Nottingham, Sheffield: William White, 1832, OL 25462446M; James Orange (1840). Nottingham Annual Register. London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co. James Orange (1840), History and antiquities of Nottingham, London: Hamilton, OL 7144123M
Military history of Nottinghamshire (5 C, 12 P) Monasteries in Nottinghamshire (20 P) Municipal boroughs of Nottinghamshire (4 P) N. History of Nottingham (6 C, 31 P) P.
The Nottingham Goose Fair traces its origins back to the feast of Matthew the Apostle, which was first celebrated in Nottingham during the 11th century. Eventually, the feast became a livestock market where geese were traded, and later became associated with horse trading, but by the 18th century it was most closely associated with foodstuffs including cheese, many tons of which were sold at ...
Oxton Hall is a grade II listed country house in the town of Oxton, North Yorkshire.. Oxton Hall was home to Henry Porter Sherbrooke (1810–1887), the elder brother of the 1st Viscount Sherbrooke, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1868 to 1873.
Nottinghamshire (/ ˈ n ɒ t ɪ ŋ ə m ʃ ər,-ʃ ɪər /; [4] abbreviated Notts.) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. The county borders South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. The largest settlement is the city of Nottingham (323,632), which is ...
Nottingham was a parliamentary borough in Nottinghamshire, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1295. In 1885 the constituency was abolished and the city of Nottingham divided into three single-member constituencies.