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Christopher Richardson talks Nottingham in the 19th Century
Mon 14 Jul 2014City Of Light is a book that celebrates Nottingham’s gobbiness during the nineteenth century, when we got up to all sorts in the name of education. We chatted to the author, Christopher Richardson, about the role of libraries, literacy and Luddites in the city’s history...
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Art Works: Helen Taylor
Tue 08 Jul 2014Have you seen that bed filled with wildflowers knocking about in Notts? The lady behind it gave us an insight into the project
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Nottingham Buskers
Tue 01 Jul 2014It's been ten years since Xylophone Man's death, so we look at some of the buskers knocking around the city streets today
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Interview: Nottingham Outlaws
Wed 25 Jun 2014Nottingham Outlaws are one of the Midlands’ top rugby league clubs, boasting more than 200 players across their various senior, academy and junior teams. We caught up with captain and prop forward George Strachan, and committee member and club stalwart Richard Johnson, to talk club history and explain the difference between league and union, as well as bus fires, boozing and bingo...
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Music Reviews: June - July 2014
Tue 24 Jun 2014With Bru-C, Michael A Grammar, Ryan Thomas, Garton, Opie Deino, Simon Waldram, Grey Hairs, Privateers and more
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Book Reviews: June - July 2014
Fri 20 Jun 2014A corrupt detective inspector, a post-war love affair, a cub who can't sleep in the dark, and more
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The Sneinton Art Scene
Tue 17 Jun 2014Nottingham will never be mistaken for Paris but it is slowly being reorganised into French-style ‘quarters.’ In April the city council approved plans for Royal, Canal and Castle quarters to go with the business-orientated Creative Quarter that is based in and around Hockley. While LeftLion understand that there are as yet no plans to actually reorganise residential areas of Nottingham into arrondissements, readers may be wondering if there are also plans afoot to create the equivalent of Paris’ bohemian Left Bank.
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Six Brazilian Artists to Watch Out For
Fri 13 Jun 2014Forget the cheesy tunes you're offered up over the course of the World Cup, we've picked out six amazing artists in Brazil
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Review: Sat & Sun Southwell Folk Festival 2014
Fri 13 Jun 2014"For a brief moment it was like the eighties again, with Michael Praed swishing his hair fetchingly back and forth as Robin and Ray Winstone as Will Scarlett"
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Look Back in Anger: The Miners Strike in Nottinghamshire 30 Years On
Wed 11 Jun 2014A corrupt lying government, mass unemployment, a rigged energy market, police brutality and a country in the throes of civil war. Sound familiar? Harry Paterson takes us back to 1984 and unpacks the myths of the Miners’ Strike.
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Review: Opening of Southwell Folk Festival 2014
Mon 09 Jun 2014An opera set in England during WWI on the eve of the 70th anniversary of D-Day landings sets the tone for an incredible weekend
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Left Lineout: End of Season review
Sat 31 May 2014"What was by far the biggest event in this year’s rugby calendar actually had nothing to do with goings-on on the pitch anyway..."
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Art Works: Ian Jones
Wed 28 May 2014"I have brushes made from Aztec symbols, from fish bones, from floorboards. It’s such a powerful tool - I like the freedom of it"
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Nottingham Acts at Dot To Dot Festival 2014
Sat 24 May 2014Every local vocal on the line-up at this year's event
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A History of Nottingham on Television 1953-2014
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New Art Club: Hercules
Mon 19 May 2014Award-winning comedy and dance duo New Art Club performed their new production, Hercules – a dance cabaret
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Marian Clayden: A Dyer's Journey Through Art and Fashion
Sun 11 May 2014The lady who taught in St Ann's and studied at Nottingham School of Art before inventing 'boho chic' fashion for A-listers
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Art Works: Sid Sottung
Mon 05 May 2014"The look has a strong foundation and a loose, soft internal layering technique that represents the movement and fluidity of the exaggerated lengths"
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Press Association - Nottingham in Pictures
Wed 23 Apr 2014A slice of Nottingham history direct from the archives
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Onlion Book Reviews
Mon 21 Apr 2014With Ross Bradshaw's collection of essays surrounding crime, The Artist and The Engineer, Seven Daze and more
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Don't Flop Raise the Bar in Nottingham
Fri 21 Mar 2014Don’t Flop have gone from strength to strength in the last five years to emerge as the UK’s biggest battle rap league. A forthcoming year of madness is on the cards for them and they’re dragging Nottingham into it with their newest event, Raise the Bar. Be there or be square...
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The Lord of Milan - Herbert Kilpin
Tue 18 Mar 2014Did you know that a Lacemaker from Nottingham co-founded AC Milan? Read all about it...
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Art Works: Jamie Gibson
Mon 10 Mar 2014"I find that interesting people, from whichever field of work they are in, make better subjects"
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A History of Women and Feminism in Nottingham 1903-2014
Fri 28 Feb 2014In Celebration of International Women's Day 2014, WoLAN take us through the history of women's rights in the 20th and 21st century and Nottingham's part in the movement...
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Major Oak Chorus
Wed 12 Feb 2014"There is an amazing raw power in hearing a song come together by sixty or so enthusiastic blokes all singing their hearts out"
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