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Stay Strong Notts: LeftLion Covid-19 Update

Tue 17 Mar 2020

Firstly, we’d like to express our sympathy and solidarity to all of you going through a tough time at the moment. Foremost, we wish you and all friends and family the best of health throughout. Stay strong Nottingham...

The Diaries of Nottingham WWI Soldier Are Being Made into an Exhibition and Play

Sun 15 Mar 2020

For years they lay hidden away in the attic of a house in New Zealand. But now, the missing World War One diaries of Nottingham soldier Billy Richards have been discovered, and are being used as the basis for a new exhibition and play...

March Mix of the Month: Beane’s Proper Notts House Party

Sat 14 Mar 2020

In this mix series we invite local DJs to get creative with each issue’s theme. For March's history focus, Beane Noodler serves up Nottingham's house output from the 90s to now...

Book Reviews: March 2020

Mon 09 Mar 2020

A few words about words...

Return to Sender: How We Managed to Track Down the Author of a Postcard from 1908

Sat 07 Mar 2020

Postcards were the “u ok hun?” texts of their day. Used by past generations to check in on their distant siblings, and by more recent ones to boast about exotic holidays to their friends, they’ve never really been blessed with messages worth a third or forth glance. Which is why our Assistant Editor, Emily, was shocked to discover cards dating back to 1908 sitting on the shelf of Hopkinson Vintage, Antiques and Art Centre. She decided to track down the families of their senders, to ask them why…

All the Action from Chelsea V Arsenal FA Cup Final

Sat 07 Mar 2020

Contributor Emma Richardson Captures last Saturday's exciting Arsenal V Chelsea Continental Cup match.

Writer Eimear McBride previews her appearance at Peggy's Skylight

Thu 05 Mar 2020

Ahead of her appearance at Peggy's Skylight on Tuesday 17 March, we talk to writer Eimear McBride about the highly-anticipated event - which is part of a series of literary events organised by Jon McGregor of the University of Nottingham - during which she will be appearing in conversation alongside Ruby Cowling...

5 Nottingham Albums to Listen to This Month

Thu 05 Mar 2020

The sounds of Notts, reviewed. If you'd like to write for us, or want your tunes chatted about, get in touch by emailing music@leftlion.co.uk...

An Archaeologist in Notts

Wed 04 Mar 2020

"People think it's all about treasure and glory… It's more to do with contributing to a community of knowledge. It's not really about your name, it's about that small contribution to a bigger whole"

Snap Notts: Wilford Village

Wed 04 Mar 2020

Our ongoing project pairs up local poets and photographers, and gives them a Notts location to create work around. This month, it's Wilford Village...

City Stylin' #23

Mon 02 Mar 2020

We take to Nottingham's streets to ask you stylish folk about your lives...

Overheard in Notts

Sun 01 Mar 2020

What the bleedin' 'ell are you lot onnabaht?

12 of Nottingham's Best Museums

Sun 01 Mar 2020

We’re blessed with a cracking selection of museums in Nottingham, some quite obvious and others a little further off the beaten track. Here are some of our top picks – from the old favourites to the new arrivals on the scene.

LeftLion Magazine #123

Sun 01 Mar 2020

The history special, featuring an archaeologist in Notts, Men of War podcast, vintage postcards, magnet fishing, Byron's wicked family tree, Mark Thomas, Bone Cult and more...

Out of Time: The 1936 Nottingham Chess Tournament

Sun 23 Feb 2020

When you think of Nottingham’s rich sport and gaming history, your mind might immediately wander to the worldwide success of Warhammer, the unprecedented double European Cup winning Forest team, or even Herbert Kilpin, the Notts legend that founded A.C Milan. What you might not know is that the city hosted the 1936 Nottingham Chess Tournament, which is still remembered as one of the most legendary events in the history of the game...

Notes from a Mental Health Nurse: Gambling Addiction

Mon 10 Feb 2020

Each month, our anonymous mental nurse, who has over two decades on experience working in Nottingham, will deal with a specific mental health issue with practical, accessible advice. This month, to fit the theme of our gaming special, they talk us through some advice on gambling addictions.

Metal Music in Notts: Then VS Now

Thu 06 Feb 2020

Notts has had an esteemed love affair with metal music for decades, with devil horns being thrown up to the skies and genre-dwelling titans visiting this great county ever since Rock City swung the floodgates open in 1980. So, for those who adorn the spike and patch-covered jackets we thought we’d take a trip down hellfire lane, as well as a look to the fiery future, to see which heavy metal legends have come to owd Nottingham and who, in 2020, are yet to go. We’ve even sorted them into their venue stomping grounds to keep things geographically neat and tidy…

11 Things to Do at Light Night 2020

Tue 04 Feb 2020

Nottingham loves Light Night so much that this year’s festival has been extended to a two-date event. For its thirteenth year of dedicated displays of luminosity, there will be over a hundred different activities and performances spanning across Friday 7 - Saturday 8 February...

A Quidditch Player in Notts

Tue 04 Feb 2020

"I don’t play because I love Harry Potter. I mean, I’ve read the books and seen the films, but I play because I enjoy the game."

Interview: TV funnyman Spencer Jones is coming to Notts

Mon 03 Feb 2020

Meet Spencer Jones; Twice nominated in the Edinburgh Festival comedy awards, a regular in BBC2's Upstart Crow and coming to Notts this month for an appearance at Just The Tonic...

Overheard in Notts

Mon 03 Feb 2020

What the bob are you lot on about, now?

LeftLion Magazine #122

Sat 01 Feb 2020

The gaming special, featuring Andy Wilson of Sledgehammer Games, Needy Cat Games, Larping, Bridie Squires' Casino Zero, the Festival of Science and Curiosity and more...

What A Decade: Nusic on Why Nottingham Should Be Crowned the Music City of the Last 10 Years

Sun 19 Jan 2020

If you live in Nottingham and are passionate about that music thing, it’s fair to say this is the best decade we’ve ever had. And not just us: there’s a case that musically, Notts has had one of the best decades in the whole of the UK…

Notes From a Mental Health Nurse: Music as a Healer

Sat 18 Jan 2020

Each month, our anonymous mental nurse, who has over two decades on experience working in Nottingham, will deal with a specific mental health issue with practical, accessible advice. This month, to fit the theme of our music special, they talk us through how we can use the medium for some much needed peace...

20 Great Battle Scenes from Film History

Fri 17 Jan 2020

From the walls of Jerusalem to the beaches of Normandy, to the Mongolian plains and the waves of the Atlantic. Whether its spears and shields or bullets and bayonets, these are twenty of the greatest battle scenes in film history...

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