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The History of the Malt Cross Nottingham

Thu 06 Nov 2014

After scooping a £1.38m grant from Heritage Lottery Funding this year, the Malt Cross closed its doors for four months to undergo a massive restoration. Now re-opened, it’s the largest Victorian music hall outside of London and one of only a fistful left in the country. As one of Nottingham’s most beautiful buildings, it’d be remiss not to have a dig in to its colourful history…

Street Tales: Market Street

Fri 17 Oct 2014

Once upon a time, the proles of Nottingham got one over on the gentry through the medium of road-signage...

Book Reviews: October 2014

Fri 10 Oct 2014

This month's review featuring Hunted by Hawks, DH Lawrence: Zombie Hunter, Influence and A Brief History of Whistling

Interview: Councillor Jon Collins

Wed 08 Oct 2014

We put your questions to the leader of Nottingham City Council and here's what he had to say in response

Cycling in Nottingham: Citycard Bikes

Tue 07 Oct 2014

This month, we look at the revolutionary 'Borisbikes' of the city and ask whether they're really worth pushing

A History of St Ann's Allotments

Wed 23 Jul 2014

With its community feel and green-fingered goodness, we look back at the history of Europe's biggest detached town gardens

A History of Coal Mining in 10 Objects

Tue 22 Jul 2014

"As a miner's son who grew up in the area during the sixties and seventies, I wanted to reflect on the culture that shaped me"

Christopher Richardson talks Nottingham in the 19th Century

Mon 14 Jul 2014

City 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...

City Ground World Cup All-Stars

Fri 11 Jul 2014

Think Forest are no match for World Cup footballers? Well here's a full squad of players from Brazil 2014 who have played at the City Ground

A History of Nottingham on Television 1953-2014

Thu 22 May 2014

It’s been just over ten years since Carlton Studios on Lenton Lane was shut down, with more than 350 jobs going to the wall with it. Since then, we’ve had our Central news broadcast to us from Birmingham, which as anyone with a vague sense of direction and geography can tell you, is not near enough to us to be called local. The launch of Notts TV is full of hope and promise - a bit like Notts County and Forest fans at the start of every season, but with less naivety. Could it mark a return to the glory days of us having local telly that actually means something to the people of this city? Let’s press the rewind button on our HD ready flatscreens and look dreamily into the distance as the screen goes all wibbly and we flashback to watch Nottingham’s role in local and national TV through the years…

NG83 - Rock City Crew

Wed 19 Mar 2014

Nottingham was pretty ace at breaking back in the day, so we're chuffed there's a documentary being made about it

A History of Women and Feminism in Nottingham 1903-2014

Fri 28 Feb 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...

Interview: George Akins of Rock City

Thu 16 Jan 2014

George Akins lived the dream of every music-loving teenager when he was given the keys to Rock City as his eighteenth birthday present. Since then he’s taken it up a notch by adding more venues, a national promotions company and a roster of acts to his empire. By George, hasn’t he done well?

Nottingham Cinema History

Tue 14 Jan 2014

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

Mon 13 Jan 2014

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?