Friends of Nottinghamshire Archives (FONA)

Mark Dorrington will give a short talk about the Department and there will be time to look round and view a selection of items from the collections. There will be a charge of £5 Non members welcome Unfortunately it is not possible to provide refreshments at this meeting. There is a car park, which is […]

Learn how Thomas Forman and his sons developed a printing business which became renown worldwide. View examples of the many products produced by the Company. Examine the contents of Time Capsule buried in 1963 and excavated in 2001. Hear how Forman calendars first published in 1882 became famous worldwide. See the development of Security printing, […]

'You make us so proud' is a project collecting contributions from people of African & Caribbean heritage giving accounts of their families and communities, originally in connection with the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act 1807-2007. The book containing these memories is kept at Nottinghamshire Archives.

Members are invited to bring along a photograph and give a brief talk about it.

Annual General Meeting

In the late 1980s John Player & Sons donated a significant collection of historic documents and artifacts to the City of Nottingham, which had been its home since the 1870s. These were split into two ‘collections’. About 20,000 items of advertising material including show cards, counter cards, original art work, packaging and photographs were given […]

A film about the Battle of the Somme will be shown and Chris will talk about its making and its probable impact.