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Look Back in Anger: The Miners Strike in Nottinghamshire 30 Years On

A 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.

Musicwood

The UK Green Film Festival is touring the country. The first film to be shown at Broadway Cinema is about the Alaskan Tongass National Forest and the guitars made out of its wood...

Neat14 Music: Joy Mumford

The soulful songbird answers some questions ahead of her performance at CAST on Thursday 29 May

Neat14 Music: Haiku Salut

Accordion, glockenspiel and electronics at CAST as part of Neat14 on Wednesday 28 May

Nottingham Acts at Dot To Dot Festival 2014

Every local vocal on the line-up at this year's event

Interview: Mark Elder of The Hallé Orchestra

The Hallé Orchestra are Royal Concert Hall residents, bringing their fresh take on classical music over the Pennines from Manchester, to us, for over a decade. We spoke to music director and conductor, Sir Mark Elder, about why we should all treat our ears to a different kind of performance than they might be used to…

Neat14 Music: MuHa

Eastern European folk at CAST as part of Neat14 on Saturday 24 May

A History of Nottingham on Television 1953-2014

Neat14 Music: Manière des Bohémiens

The gypsy jazz outfit are performing at CAST as part of Neat14 on Friday 23 May

Press Association - Nottingham in Pictures

A slice of Nottingham history direct from the archives

Don't Flop Raise the Bar in Nottingham

Don’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...

The Lord of Milan - Herbert Kilpin

Did you know that a Lacemaker from Nottingham co-founded AC Milan? Read all about it...

A History of Women and Feminism in Nottingham 1903-2014

In 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...

Major Oak Chorus

"There is an amazing raw power in hearing a song come together by sixty or so enthusiastic blokes all singing their hearts out"

Nottingham Cinema History

From his first experience of Saturday morning kids’ shows at the pictures, Rick Wilde became hooked on not only films but on how cinemas worked. Beginning his career in 1953 as a four teen-year-old, he worked as a projectionist until 2006. When he joined the business there was 52 picture houses around the city: from the crude conversions of the early 1900s, the gilded Victorian palaces of the 1910s, the art deco continentals of the 1930s, the sophisticated twin and triples of the 1960s and 1970s, to the multiplexes of today - he’s seen it all. A walking encyclopedia of Notts cinema shares his knowledge with us...

History of Nottingham's Savoy Cinema

On 7 November 1935, the Savoy Cinema opened its doors to screen its first film, Flirtation Walk, a musical romance starring Dick Powell. It was likely that only the Lenton locals took any notice of this event because, at that time, there were 52 other cinemas in and around Nottingham. So if it wasn’t that extraordinary then, what is its place in Nottingham today? And how in Cockleman’s name has it survived so long when the others have not?

Since 1843: NTU 170 Years Exhibition

NTU's School of Art and Design celebrates its 170th birthday and to mark the occasion they have invited back some of their most famous alumni to showcase their work in the Since 1843 exhibition…

Interview: Corey Neilson of Nottingham Panthers

Last season Corey Neilson led Nottingham Panthers to their most successful season ever. They did a clean sweep of all three trophies winning the regular season title, the Challenge Cup and the play-offs. Can they repeat the feat again this year?

Interview: Kenneth Alan Taylor

Kenneth Alan Taylor has spent a lifetime playing panto dames but he’ll finally hang up his sequined frocks and beehive wigs after this Christmas. More than a man in a dress, he also writes and directs the Playhouse pantos he stars in. His career hasn’t been all fairy dust and glass slippers though, there’s been Coronation Street and ‘serious’ theatre too...

Music Reviews: December 2013 - January 2014

Jake Bugg, Alright The Captain, Bru-C, Euler, Amber Run, Chloe McShane, Ashmore, Bus Stop Madonnas, Rue Royale, Baby Godzilla and more

A Rough Guide to Nottingham's Games Workshop

A company that has has captured the imagination of millions in its lifetime, Games Workshop is a recession-ignoring international institution that has its rather uniquely designed headquarters a stones throw from the QMC and University of Nottingham. We trace its impressive trajectory in popular culture.

Interview: Charles Webster, House Music Legend

He’s got thirty-odd aliases and done umpteen squared remixes and cubed productions. After 25 years making electronic soul, Charles Webster is a bona fide legend of the deep house music for which Nottingham was once world-famous. We dropped in on him to chat about where he’s at, how he got there, and where he’s heading.

Interview: Mother Nottingham Su Pollard

For the last decade she’s been our unofficial mascot. Su Pollard, or ‘Mother Nottingham’ as we like to call her. She made her name in TV series like Hi-de-Hi! and You Rang M’Lord? She even got to number two in the UK singles charts in 1986 - a time when that actually meant something. She’s coming home this December as Theatre Royal have confirmed her for this year’s panto. We finally hooked her up with Nottingham’s Mr Sex...

Nottingham by Balloon

Notts as seen from the baskets of our intrepid local balloonists

Interview: Derek Randall

A whippet of a fielder and a fidgety, gifted batsman; Derek ‘Rags’ Randall was one of the best loved and most eccentric cricketers in the history of Nottinghamshire and England cricket.