A look at the foods being eaten and patterns of dining in the county from c.1540 through to c.1700. What foods did people eat? Where did their food come from? Was the food of the county different to that elsewhere and indeed how did food differ in different parts of the county? Based largely on […]
Nottingham has been known for its vast system of caves since the Early Middle Ages. Richard’s talk examines Nottingham’s medieval caves using the borough court rolls and other records held by the Nottinghamshire Archives. These reveal a huge amount of information about what the caves were used for, who owned them and their value to […]
The 19th century saw an increasing movement to reform the legal system both generally and with regard to married women’s rights. At the same time women, though disenfranchised, were becoming politically active with the feminist movement in its infancy. The battle for women’s suffrage could not be fought successfully until there had been radical changes […]