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Ncf Comedy Presents: Tej Dhutia: Tmi (too Much Information) Wip

The Moon Looks On Them All: Of Friends and Friendship With John Lucas, and Endless Present With Rory Waterman

CommuniTree Festival (Ft The Dhol Foundation, Sidiki Dembélé Ensemble & Take 1 Dance)

Locating D.H. Lawrence: September 1924

Lawrence was always happy to give writers feedback, though was ruthless with his criticisms. As he prepares to move to Mexico, he discovers his father has died.

Willie Hopkin, Dh Lawrence’s Socialist Friend, a Book Launch With John Pateman

Locating Lawrence: August 1924

He’s off to see the Hopi Snake Dance in Arizona, meaning he must travel by car. Lawrence hates cars. 

Poetry From Imtiaz Dharker

Locating Lawrence: July 1924

While building a cabin on the foot of the Rockies, D.H. Lawrence realises there is no hope for ‘cosmic unity’.

Locating Lawrence: June 1924

Will 12 bottles of smuggled whisky and five wild horses tame D.H. Lawrence’s rage? Probably not. Here's what D.H. Lawrence was up to in June 1924

Locating Lawrence: May 1924

Literature’s greatest DIYer has replaced his pen for a trowel…

Locating Lawrence: April 1924

D.H. Lawrence is settling back into life in Taos and appears to be happy. Long may this last...

Locating Lawrence: March 1924

He’s had enough of Europe and so sets sail to America in the hope of claiming unpaid royalties…

Locating Lawrence: February 1924

Yes, travelling the world is fun. But if you want to be happy, do a bit of housework…

Thousands Showed Up For DHP’s Beat The Streets Raising Vital Funds For Framework

DHP Family’s Beat The Streets saw huge crowds gather to enjoy a full day of live music on Sunday, with tens of thousands of pounds expected to be added to the fundraising total for Framework from this year’s event...

Locating Lawrence: January 1924

The weather is miserable, and his latest novel is dividing critics…

Music to Our Ears: We Look Back at a Record-Breaking Year for Nottingham’s Award Winning DHP Family

We caught up with our friends at DHP Family for their reflections on a milestone year for the live music company which brings hundreds of top tier artists to Nottingham, as well as giving a platform to our finest homegrown talent...

A Santa in Abu Dhabi

If you’ve ever wondered how those blokes in shopping centres got into working as Santa, here’s your chance to find out. Okay, this one isn’t explicitly about a job in Notts - but one of our own was asked to perform as Santa on the other side of the globe. We think that’s worth diving into…

Locating Lawrence: December 1923

In December, Lawrence begrudgingly returned to Blighty and immediately felt like a ‘caged coyote’. England seemed ‘dead and dark’ to him, and he felt ‘buried alive…under the yellow air.’ It didn’t help that he immediately caught a cold and was in bed...

Locating D.H. Lawrence: October 1923

What better way to spend October 1923 than travelling up and down the hills of Mexico while making wry observations of local towns...

Locating Lawrence: September 1923

It’s September 1923 and as always, D.H. Lawrence is keen to offer advice...

Book Launch: Lawrence’s Muse, Jessie Chambers Wood Through Her Own Writing

Locating D.H. Lawrence: August 1923

It’s August 1923 and D.H. Lawrence is living in a rented farm cottage in New Jersey that includes a private field and horse...

Locating D.H. Lawrence: July 1923

It’s July 1923, and D.H. Lawrence is crossing the border of Mexico into America where he encounters a ‘a vast and weary river that looks as if it had never wanted to start flowing’...

60 Years Later: Lawrence of Arabia

Sixty years on and David Lean's mythic of conqueror turned conquered still holds a spot as one of the best on-screen case studies of British imperialism and its impetus to irrationality...

We Look Further Into D.H.Lawrence and His Depiction of Same Sex Relationships

Born in Eastwood in 1885, D.H. Lawrence is one of Nottingham’s most famous writers, penning novels like Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow and Women in Love. But what did this prolific author have to say about same sex relationships? One of our literature writers Lewis Keech takes a deep dive into Lawrence’s novels to find out…