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Nottingham College is one of the largest further education and higher education colleges in the United Kingdom. Based in the city of Nottingham in England, it provides education and training from pre-entry through to university-degree level at its 10 centres in the city and around Nottinghamshire.
Nottinghamshire Wapentakes in 1832. Nottinghamshire is a county that is situated in the East Midlands of England. The county has history within the Palaeolithic period, dating anywhere between 500,000 and 10,000 BCE, [1] as well as early Anglo-Saxon communities, dating to 600 CE. [2]
[89] [90] In September 2011, Rizwaan Sabir was awarded £20,000 compensation for false imprisonment by Nottinghamshire Police. The university came under criticism after the only professor involved in terrorism studies at the institution, Rod Thornton, decided that, because of the university's lack of guidance to him regarding their position ...
The collection of manuscripts and local archives in the University Library was encouraged initially by G.E. Flack, the first College Librarian. References in minutes of the University Council from the 1930s refer to the University Library's accession of significant gifts and deposits of archival materials, a process which accelerated after the war.
Antiquities of Nottinghamshire. Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire. Vol. 2. John Throsby. 1790. (describes Nottingham) Charles Deering (1751), Nottinghamia vetus et nova; or, an historical account of the ancient and present state of the town of Nottingham, Nottingham: G. Ayscough, & T. Willington, OL 21774891M; Stephen Whatley (1751 ...
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.
Nottingham Trent University, Arkwright Building (Grade II listed building) Located just north of Nottingham City Centre, the City site is home to over 17,000 students from Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Law School, School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment, School of Art & Design, School of Social Sciences, and the Centre for Broadcasting & Journalism.
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 ...