The Hammer of Defiance – Ashfield Community Play

We got word of this event and it looks great!

Please find below an e-flier for Hanby and Barrett’s latest community performance, in Ashfield.

The play will be presented on Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th May at Forest Street Baptist Church in the heart of Kirkby in Ashfield.

Database: Legacies of British Slave-ownership

During the Slave Trade abolition anniversary in 2007 questions were asked about hidden slaving connections in Nottingham and Notts.

A very useful new source has just been publically announced at University College London, the Legacies of British Slave-ownership website, where you can search by town or county as well as for individuals who made claims for financial compensation when Caribbean slavery was abolished in 1833 along with slavery across most regions of the British Empire (which some notable exceptions).

NWHG walk and other events

Our friends from the Nottingham Women’s History group have told us about a number of great events in the next few weeks:

Maps matter

Someone posted this great article on their blog, regarding our walk ‘To the Castle’ and more recent episodes of unrest in this city. Thanks!

Poaching talk

Thanks to everyone who came to the poaching talk yesterday, it was great! Special thanks of course to our excellent speaker. If you missed the event, we have made an audio recording and will put it on Valentine Yarnspinner’s Youtube channel as soon as we get round to edit it (might be a few weeks). Watch this space!

The Story of the Croft

Some of us recently went to a fabulous local event organised by the Now Heritage.

They did a great oral history project entitled The Story of the Croft, regarding a shared housing scheme in the 1960s for unsupported mothers and babies. This amazing work captured the stories of some of the women who lived in the croft. Please check their website!

A few words on poachers – A talk by Rosemary Muge (Sunday, 17th Feb 2013 2pm)

We will be following our recent event on Luddism, which explored aspects of rural culture in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, by this talk about poaching & poachers.