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Primary Sources

R. Thoroton, Antiquities of Nottinghamshire (1677)
J. Throsby, ed., The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire, 3 vols (1790-6)
C. Deering, Nottinghamia vetus et nova (1751)
J. Blackner, The History of Nottingham (1815)
J. Orange, History of Nottingham (1840)
T. Bailey, Annals of Nottinghamshire (4 volumes, 1860-1)
The Stranger’s Guide through the town of Nottingham (1827)
R. Mellors, Old Nottingham Suburbs then and now (Nottingham, 1914)
W.H. Wylie and J. Potter Briscoe, A Popular History of Nottingham (Nottingham, 1893)
J. Potter Briscoe, Chapters of Nottinghamshire's History (1908)
R. Mellors, Men of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire (1924)
Nottingham Red Book - published periodically from 1866 (initially as Allen’s Red Book)
Records of the Borough of Nottingham (vols 1-9, 1882-19XX)
H. Field, Nottingham Date Book (1879)
A. Gilbert, Recollections of Old Nottingham (2nd edn., Nottingham, 1904)
English Asmodeus, Revelations of Life in Nottingham (Nottingham, 1860)
J.B. Goodman, ed., Victorian Cabinet Maker: the memoirs of James Hopkinson, 1819-1894 (1968)
Mary Howitt, Autobiography (1889)
Robert Sanders, Complete English Traveller (1772)
C.P. Moritz, Journeys of a German in England in 1782 (1965)
A.C. Wood, ed., ‘Nottinghamshire by G.M. Woodward’, Transactions of the Thoroton Society, LXI (1957)
F.C. Laird, Topographical Description of Nottinghamshire (1810)

Trade directories

The series by White and Wright for the 19th century are an excellent source both for the history of the town, and for information about trades and other activities. Copies in many branches of the library service, especially Angel Row. Leicester University has recently digitised a selection of directories. See:

The Universal British Directory of Trade, Commerce and Manufacture (1793)
White’s Nottinghamshire 1832, 1844, 1853, 1864, 1885/86, etc.
S. Glover, History and Directory of the Town of Nottingham (1844)
W. Dearden, Directory (1844)
Wright’s Nottingham Directory (1854ff)
Kelly’s Directories (various)

www.historicdirectories.org

Newspapers

The following are recommended, and can be found in Nottinghamshire Local Studies Library:

Nottingham Evening News, Oct 1885 - July 1952
Notts Herald/Nottingham Catholic Herald, 1907-1934
Notts weekly Express, 1886-1921
Notts herald and Post and other misc titles
Bulwell and Basford local news/Notts Advertiser
Football Post
Nottingham Journal, July 1920-Sept.1953
Nottingham Daily Express, 1860-June 1920
Nottingham Journal, 1768-1887
Evening Post May 1878 - to present.

Most of these are available on microfilm. For more information on the availability of newspapers relating to Nottingham and its suburbs see: newsplan.liem.org.uk/index.asp?action=6&offset=1075

Nottingham, as a large provincial city, often featured in national newspapers, of which copies can be found in the National Newspaper library at Colindale, London. However, copies of The Times are widely available on microfilm, and, increasingly, on the web. Ask at Nottingham Local Studies Library.

Secondary

Cover of J V Beckett (with Ken Brand), Nottingham. An illustrated history (1997).

The list is vast. Below are items of specific interest, and recent (post-1998) publications. If you want to know more consult Brook, Bibliography.

All periods

John Beckett, ed., A Centenary History of Nottingham (Manchester, 1997)
John Beckett and Ken Brand, An Illustrated History of Nottingham (Manchester, 1997)
S. Brazier, et.al., A New Geography of Nottingham (2nd edn., 1988)
G. Oldfield, The Illustrated History of Nottingham’s Suburbs (2003)
M.I. Thomis, Old Nottingham, (1968)
C. Weir, Nottingham: a History (2002)
J.D. Chambers, Modern Nottingham in the Making (1945)
D. Gray, Nottingham: Settlement to City (Nottingham, 1953)
D. Gray, Nottingham through 500 Years (2nd edn., Nottingham, 1960).
J.D. Chambers, A Century of Nottingham History (Nottingham, 1951).
J.D. Chambers, The People of Nottingham, 1851-1951 (Nottingham, 1951).
K.C. Edwards (ed.), Nottingham and its Region (Nottingham, 1966).
Emrys Bryson, Portrait of Nottingham (1974)
Ian Manning, Images of Nottingham (Derby, 1994).
City of Nottingham, Official Guide Books.
J.B. Priestley, English Journey (1977 edn.)
Geoffrey Trease, A Whiff of Burnt Boats (1971)
Nottingham, Queen City of the Midlands (1924) [Special Collection]
Prehistory – Anglo-Saxon
Brook, Bibliography, 8-9

Medieval

Brook, Bibliography, 9-10

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Brook, Bibliography, 10-12
John Beckett and Catherine Smith, ‘Urban renaissance and consumer revolution in Nottingham, 1688-1750’, Urban History 27 (2000), 31-50
C.W. Chalklin, The Provincial Towns of Georgian England , 1740-1820 (1974)
A. Henstock, The diary of Abigail Gawthern of Nottingham, 1751-1810, Thoroton Society Record Series 33 (1978-9)
W. F. Webster, ed., Nottinghamshire Hearth Tax 1664, 1674, Thoroton Society Record Series 37 (1988)

Nineteenth Century

General

Brook, Bibliography, 12-15
R. Church, Economic and Social Change in a Midland Town (1966)
R. Smith, ‘Population movements and the development of working class suburbs 1801-1851: the case of Nottingham’, Local Population Studies, 47 (1991)
J.V. Beckett & K. Brand, ‘Enclosure, Improvement and the Rise of "New Nottingham" 1845-67', Transactions of the Thoroton Society XCVIII (1994)
R. Smith, ‘Towards the mature industrial city 1800-1880: the development of All Saints Parish, Nottingham’, Midland History, XIV (1989)
G. Oldfield, `The Nottingham Borough Boundary Extension of 1877’, Transactions of the Thoroton Society, XCIV (1990)

Housing and health

Brook, Bibliography, 45-51
S.D. Chapman, ‘Working Class Housing in Nottingham during the Industrial Revolution’, Transactions of the Thoroton Society, LXVII (1963). Reprinted with only minor alterations in S.D. Chapman, (ed.), History of Working Class Housing (1967)
P. Foster, ‘The poor and the Nottingham cholera outbreak of 1832', Nottinghamshire Historian, 41 (1989), 15-21
M.A. Walker, ‘The Nottingham Cholera Epidemic of 1832', Transactions of the Thoroton Society, XCV (1991)
S. Best, ‘Unfit for Human Habitation', Sneinton Magazine, 14 (1984), pp. 11-20.
S. Best, `A very poor area: the metamorphosis of the Carter Gate/Manvers Street Area’, Nottingham Civic Society Newsletter, 120 (2003)
K. Brand, `Unhealthy Areas in Victorian Nottingham: the Rookeries’, in John Beckett, ed., Nottinghamshire Past (2003)
K. Brand, ‘The Park Estate, Nottingham: the development of a nineteenth century fashionable suburb’, Transactions of the Thoroton Society, LXXXVIII (1984)
G. Syer, ‘A Visit to Nottingham in 1828', Nottinghamshire Historian, 53 (1994)
P. Murphy, ‘Irish Settlement in Nottingham in the Early Nineteenth Century’, Transactions of the Thoroton Society, XCVIII (1994)
P. Bailey, ‘Leenside, the Churches and a Nineteenth-Century Nottingham Slum’, Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 100 (1996)
R. Smith and D. Shaw, The Changing Character of Inner Nottingham 1800-1983 (1983)
P.J. Hammond, ‘The Collection and Disposal of Nottingham's Night-Soil’, Nottinghamshire Historian, 34 (1985)
G. Oldfield, ‘The Construction of Papplewick Pumping Station, Nottinghamshire, 1881-85', Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 99 (1995)
S. Best, ‘Minnitt's Folly', Nottingham Civic Society Newsletter, 96ff (1995-6)
Denise Amos, `Nottingham’s health pioneer: Philip Boobbyer Medical Officer of Health for the City of Nottingham 1889-1929’, Nottinghamshire Historian, 69 (2002)
Terry Fry, 'The General Lunatic Asylum, Nottingham, 1812-1902’, Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 102 (1998), 113-24
Norman Scarfe, 'Nottingham and its General Hospital in 1786: extracts from the travel diaries of a French Nobleman’, Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 103 (1999), 141-8

Leisure

Brook, Bibliography, 75-6, 82-3
J.J. Rowley, ‘Drink and the Public House in Nottingham, 1830-60’, Transactions of the Thoroton Society, LXXIX (1975)
J.E. Heath, ‘Leisure Provision in Victorian Nottingham’, Nottinghamshire Historian, No. 28 (Spring 1982)
R. Evans, ‘Theatre Music in Nottingham 1760-1800’, Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 88 (1984)
R. Evans, ‘Music in St Mary's Church, Nottingham’, Nottinghamshire Historian, 38 (1987), pp. 14-17
R.T. Coope and J.Y. Corbett, eds., Bromley House, 1752-1991 (1991)
P. Hoare, `The Operatives’ Libraries of Nottingham: a radical community’s own initiative’, Library History, 19 (2003)
R. Iliffe and W. Baguley, Victorian Nottingham, vols.3,4,7, 8,10,12,14,18
J. Noble, ‘Choir, Cricket and Gardening: Some Leisure Activities in Victorian Nottingham’, Nottinghamshire Historian, 29 (1982) 9-11
S. Best, ‘How the racecourse came to Colwick’, Sneinton Magazine, 46 (1993), pp. 13-26.
G. Davies, A Touch of Colwick (1994)
G. Oldfield, ‘Bendigo - A Local Hero?’, Nottinghamshire Historian, 44 (1990), pp. 6-11
P. Wilkes, The Great Nottingham Goose Fair (1989)
D. McVay, Notts County Football Club (1988)
P. Attaway, Nottingham Forest: a complete record 1865-1991 (1991).
J.F. Sutton, Nottingham Cricket Matches from 1771 to 1853 (1853)
P. Wynne Thomas, Trent Bridge (1987)
J. Lucas and B. Haynes, The Trent Bridge Battery (1985)

Twentieth Century

General

Brook, Bibliography, 16-18
John Beckett, `Greater Nottingham: the abortive boundary extension scheme of 1920’, TTS, 104 (2000)
Roger Smith and David Shaw, The Changing Character of Inner Nottingham, 1800-1983: Waterloo Promenade and its Environs (1983)
Clive Hardy, Nottingham since 1900 (1987)
Terry Fry, Carrington (1999)
Terry Fry, The History of Sherwood: a Nottingham Suburb (1989)
Ken Brand, An Introduction to Mapperley Park (2nd edn, 1996)
Alf Bowley, Basford (1998)
C. Weir, `The growth of an inner-urban housing development: Forest Fields, Nottingham, 1883-1914', TTS, 89 (1985), 126-31.
John Beckett, St Stephen's, Hyson Green (1998) [First part is on the growth of Hyson Green].
K.C. Edwards, `The Nottingham Conurbation', EMG, no. 18 (1962)
John Beckett, `The Nottingham Boundary Extension of 1933’, TTS, 105 (2001)
S. Daniels and S. Rycroft, ‘Mapping the Modern City: Alan Sillitoe’s Nottingham novels’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 18 (1993).
J.A. Giggs, ‘Fringe expansion and suburbanisation around Nottingham: a metropolitan area approach’, EMG, 5 (1970).
E. Scoffham, A Vision of the City: the architecture of T.C. Howitt (Nottinghamshire County Council, 1992).
C.J. Thomas, ‘The growth of Nottingham’s residential area since 1919, EMG, (1971).

Housing

T.C. Howitt, A review of the first two years' progress of the housing schemes in Nottingham : under part 3 of the Housing and Town Planning Act, 1919 (1921)
T.C. Howitt, A review of the progress of the housing schemes in Nottingham under the various Housing and Town Planning Acts (1929)
N. Hayes, `Civic perceptions in housing and local decision making in English cities in the 1920s’, Urban History, 27 (2000)
N.J. Hayes, Consensus and Controversy: City Politics in Nottingham 1945-66 (Liverpool, 1996).
R.N.E. Blake, `The City Challenge: planning by partnership in Nottingham's inner area', Trent Geographer (1993)
S. Ewen, `”Mutual Antagonism?” An analysis of the relationship between Nottingham City and County Council during the interim development of Clifton housing estate, 1943-51’, Midland History, XXI (2000)
Coates K. and R. Silburn, Beyond the Bulldozer (Nottingham, 1980).
Coates K. and R. Silburn, Poverty, Deprivation and Morale in a Nottingham
Community: St Ann’s (Nottingham, 1967).
R. Smith, P. Whysall and C. Beuvrin, `Local Authority Inertia in Housing Improvement, 1890-1914', Town Planning Review, 57 (1986), 404-24.
Smith R. and P. Whysall, ‘The Addison Act and the local authority response: Housing policy formation and implementation in Nottingham 1917-1922', Town Planning Review, 61 (1990).
Smith R. and P. Whysall, ‘The Origins and Development of Local Authority Housing in Nottingham 1890-1960', in S. Lowe and D. Hughes (eds.), A New Century of Social Housing (Leicester, 1991).
Longford S., ‘Womens mobility deprivation: a case study of Strelley, Nottingham’, EMG, 15 (1993)
John Beckett, ‘Contesting the Urban Fringe: Nottingham City Council, Wollaton Hall and Broxtowe Hall, 1924-37’, Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 108 (2004), 159-72

Health

S. Taylor., ‘The effect of marriage on job possibilities for women’, Oral History, 5/2 (1977).
Ruth I. Johns, St Ann’s Nottingham: inner-city voices (2002)
Giggs J.A., ‘Schizophrenia and ecological structure in Nottingham’, in N.D. McGlashan and J.R. Blunden (eds.), Geographical Aspects of Health (1983).
Giggs J.A., ‘Mental disorder and ecological structure in Nottingham’, Social Science and Medicine, 23 (1986).
Giggs J.A., ‘Drug abuse and urban ecological structure: the Nottingham case’, in R.W. Thomas (ed.), Spatial Epidemiology (1990).
Giggs J.A. and D.K. Whynes, ‘Homeless people in Nottingham’, EMG, 11 (1988).
Giggs J.A., et. al., ‘Class A drug users: prevalence and characteristics in Nottingham’, British Journal of Addiction, 84 (1989).
Madeley R., ‘The geography of health in Greater Nottingham’, EMG, 9 (1986).
Silburn R., People in their Places, One Hundred Years of Nottingham Life (Nottingham, 1981).
Sillitoe A., Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958).
Sillitoe A., Life Without Armour (1995).
Albert Spooner, The Place Where I Was Born (1991)
Whynes D. and J. Giggs, ‘The Health of the Nottingham Homeless’, Public Health, 106/4 (1992).
Winn S., ‘Psychiatric disorders in Nottingham: a comparison of diagnostic and age groups’, EMG, 9 (1986).
Hyson Green Tenants' Action Group Warning. Hyson Green Flats Can Damage Your Health (Nottingham, 1984).
Chief Executive's Department - City of Nottingham, Poverty in Nottingham (Nottingham, 1994)
P. Boobbyer, Summary of Nottingham City Health Reports 1916-28 (Nottingham, n.d.)
Denise Amos, ‘The Good Old Days – The Victorian and Edwardian Working-Class Diet in Nottingham’, Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 106 (2002), 127-45

New communities

Crewe L., ‘Skills, work and training: the employment experience of the Vietnamese community in Nottingham’, EMG, 15 (1992).
Garrison L. (ed.), The Black Presence in Nottingham (Nottingham, 1993).
Husain M.S., ‘The increase and distribution of New Commonwealth immigrants in Greater Nottingham’, EMG, 6 (1975).
Lawrence D., Black Migrants, White Natives: a study of race relations in Nottingham (Cambridge, 1974).
Simpson A., Stacking the Decks: a Study in Racial Inequality in Council Housing in Nottingham (Nottingham, 1981).
F. Bayliss and J. Coates `West Indians at work in Nottingham', Race, 7/2 (Oct 1965)
J. Habbuck and S. Carter, Half a Job? A report on job discrimination against young blacks in Nottingham (CRE, 1980)
S. Thomas, P. Banjako, A. Louis, (eds.), A Retrospective View: Black Women in Nottingham (Nottingham, 1994)
R. Malik and S. Gregory (eds.), Living with Two Cultures: experiences and expectations of the Pakistani Community in the Meadows area of Nottingham (Nottingham, n.d.),
A. Louis, Trailblazers: a tribute to the early lives of Jamaicans now living in Nottinghamshire (1997)
A. Hussain, The Four Tribes of Nottingham (1999)
V. George, Mohammed Ajeeb, A. McKay, Somewhere to Live (1971)
R. Silburn et al, Neighbourhood Images in Nottingham (1999)
Coates and Silburn, St Ann’s
I. Katznelson, `The Politics of Racial Buffering in Nottingham, 1954-68’, Race, XVI (1970)
A. Popkess, `The Racial Disturbances in Nottingham’, Criminal Law Review (1960)
A.S. Bowley, ‘Politicians and the Police in Nottingham: the “Popkess Affair”, 1959’, Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 108 (2004), 173-86

Leisure

Brook, Bibliography, 75-6, 83-4, 88-91
Attaway P., Nottingham Forest: a complete record 1865-1991 (Derby, 1991).
Clough B. with J. Sadler, Clough: The Autobiography (1994).
Francis T., Clough: a biography (1987).
Hayes N.J., ‘Municipal Subsidy and Tory Minimalism: Building the Nottingham Playhouse, 1942-1963', Midland History, 19 (1994).
Hilton C., Torville and Dean: the Full Story (Oxford, 1994).
Notts. County Centenary Handbook, 1862-1962 (n.d.)
Southern A. and S. Winfield (eds.), At a Cinema Near You: a history of cinema in Nottingham (Nottingham, n.d.)
Warsop K. (assisted by P. Wain), The Magpies: the story of Notts. County Football Club (Buckingham, 1994).
Wynne-Thomas P., Trent Bridge (1987).
P. Wynne-Thomas, The History of Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club (1992)
A. Southern and S. Winfield (eds.), At a Cinema Near You: a history of cinema in Nottingham (Nottingham, n.d.).
I Manning, 700 Years of Goose Fair (1994)
K Brand, `The Elite Picture Theatre', Nottingham Civic Society Newsletter, 80 (1989)
D. Pomfret, `The city of evil and the great outdoors: the modern health movement and the urban young 1918-40’, Urban History, 28 (2001), 405-27
David Stacey, 'The provision of leisure by religious voluntary organisations in Nottingham from the 1890s to 1950s: adaptation and intentions, commercialism and competition’, Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 108 (2004). 159-72

Nottingham at war

Brook, Bibliography, 18-19
O'Neill J., ‘Nottingham People in the First World War’ in D. Marcombe (ed.), Nottingham and the Great War (Nottingham, 1985).
D. Marcombe (ed.), Nottingham and the Great War (Nottingham, 1985).
T. Manning, Nottingham's War (1995)
P. Foster, `Nottingham Goes to War (1914)', Nottinghamshire Historian, 53 (1994)
J. Hook, `Warriors for the working day: the air raids on Nottinghamshire during the Great War', Nottinghamshire Historian, 50 (1993)
P. Foster, `The Nottingham blitz, May 1941', Nottinghamshire Historian, 39 (1987)
Bill Beresford, `Tokenhouse Yard: Memories of Work in Nottingham during the First World War’, Nottinghamshire Historian, 38 (1987)
Alfred Morley, Coffins in the Works: Chilwell Explosion, 1918 (1982)

Economic development

General

Brook, Bibliography, 22-43
Transport facilities
Brook, Bibliography, 23-7
Edwards K.C., `A new bridge over the River Trent', EMG, 9 (1958).
Giggs J.A., ‘Traffic reorganisation in the central core of Nottingham’, EMG, 5 (1973).
Marshall R., A History of Nottingham City Transport, 1897-1959 (Nottingham, 1960).
M.J. McCullagh and R.P. Bradshaw, `"Who Goes There?": Studies of Pedestrian Circulation in Nottingham City Centre', EMG, 19 (1994), 28-39.
V. Foster and B. Taylor, Railways in and around Nottingham (Huddersfield, 1991)
S. Best, `Passengers to Sneinton', Sneinton Magazine, 38 (1991), 11-23.
S. Zaleski, `On the Trail of Clifton Boulevard, parts 1 and 2', Lenton Times, 9 (1995) and 10 (1996)
H. McClintock and J. Cleary, `English urban cycle route network experiments: the experience of the Greater Nottingham Network', Town Planning Review, April 1993

Textiles

S.D. Chapman, Hosiery and Knitwear: Four Centuries of Small-Scale Industry in Britain , c.1589-2000 (2002), chapters 1-4
Gravenor Henson, History of the Framework Knitters (1831)
W. Felkin, A History of Machine-Wrought Hosiery and Lace Manufacture (1867)
Joyce Ellis, ‘”The stocking country”: industrial and urban growth in Nottingham, 1680-1840’, in J. Stobart and P. Lane, eds., Urban and Industrial Change in the Midlands, 1700-1840 (2000), 93-115
S.M. Mason, The History of the Worshipful Company of Framework Knitters (2000)
Peta Lewis, ‘William Lee's Stocking Frame’, Textile History 17 (1986)
D.E. Varley, A History of the Midland Counties Lace Manufacturers' Association 1915-58 (Long Eaton, 1959) [pp.1-90 are an outline of the industry 1768-1914]
D.E. Varley, ‘John Heathcoat, 1783-1861: founder of the machine-made lace industry’, Textile History, 1 (1968)
G. Oldfield, ‘The Nottingham Lace Market’, Textile History 15 (1984)
G. Oldfield, The Lace Market, Nottingham (Nottingham, Civic Society, n.d.)
Sheila A. Mason, ‘Tobacco and Lace’, Transactions of the Thoroton Society LXXXV (1981)
Sheila A. Mason, Nottingham Lace 1760s-1950s (1994)
P. Sharpe and S.D. Chapman, ‘Women's Employment and Industrial Organization: commercial lace embroidery in early nineteenth century Ireland and England ’, Women's History Review, 5 (1996)
R. Gray and D. Loftus, ‘Industrial Regulations, urban space, and the boundaries of the workplace: mid-Victorian Nottingham’, Urban History, 26 (1999), 211-29
Nottingham, Queen of the Midlands, and its Industries (1935)[Special Collection]
Chapman S.D., ‘Mergers and Takeovers in the Hosiery Industry’, Business History, XXX (1988).
Chapman S.D., ‘The Innovating Entrepreneurs in the British ready-Made Clothing Industry’, Textile History, XXIV (1993).
S.D. Chapman, `I & R Morley: colossus of the hosiery trade and industry, 1799-1965', Textile History, 28 (1997)
Crewe L., S. Longford and P. Totterdill, The Notts. Fashion Sector (Nottingham University, Department of Geography, 1994).
Erickson C., British Industrialists: Steel and Hosiery 1850-1950 (Cambridge, 1959).
Lowe D. and J. Richards, The City of Lace (1982).
Millington J. and S. Chapman, Four Centuries of Machine Knitting (Leicester, 1989).
Wallwork S.C., `A Review of the Statistics of the Growth of the British Hosiery Industry 1844-1984', Textile History, XXII (1991).
Wells F.A., British Hosiery Industry (1935).
Wyncoll P., The Nottingham Labour Movement 1880-1939 (1985).
Nicola Verdon, `"The Best Firms to Work For …": the Employment of Women in Nottingham's Manufacturing Industries between the World Wars', TTS, 101 (1997), 175-86.
L. Crewe, The Notts. Textile and Clothing Sector: a State of the Industry Report (Nottingham, 1994).
Simon May & Co Limited, 1849-1949 (1949)
T.S. Nutting, The History of the British Knitting Machine Building Industry, 1850-1990 (1994)

Other industries

C. Weir, Jesse Boot of Nottingham (Nottingham, 1994).
S.D. Chapman, Jesse Boot of Boots the Chemist (1974)
G.H. Bowden, The Story of Raleigh (1975)
Roger Lloyd Jones and M.J. Lewis, Raleigh and the British Bicycle Industry: an economic and business history (2000)
Dictionary of Business Biography, IV (1985), article on John Player and his two sons.
Griffin A.R., Mining in the East Midlands 1550-1947 (1971).
Leighton-Boyce J.A.S.L., Smiths the Bankers 1658-1958 (1958).
Stevens R., ‘”Disruptive Elements?”: The influence of the Communist Party in Nottingham and District Trades Council, 1929-1951', Labour History Review, 58 (1993).
P. Whysall, `Hyson Green: a profile of an Inner City Shopping Centre', East Midland Geographer, 16 (1993)

Local government and services

Brook, Bibliography, 43-5
F.S. Granger, The Council House, Nottingham: a review of the Council House and Exchange Buildings (1929)
John Beckett and Ken Brand, The Council House Nottingham and Old Market Square (Nottingham, 2004)

Education and schools

Brook, Bibliography, 51-8
Jones Carol A., A History of Nottingham School of Design (Nottingham, 1993).
Lyon R., 1843-1968. The Nottingham College of Art and Design (Nottingham, 1968).
Taylor F.W., The History of Nottingham Bluecoat School, 1706-1956 (Nottingham, 1956).
Thomas A.W., A History of Nottingham High School, 1513-1953 (Nottingham, 1957).
Tolley B.H., `Nottingham University, 1881-1911: the Formative Years', in One Hundred Years of Nottingham Life: the centenary lectures delivered at the University of Nottingham (1981).
Tolley B.H., `Technical Education in the East Midlands. A Study in Educational Administration and History' (University of Nottingham. Ph.D thesis, 1979).
Tolley B.H., `University College, Nottingham, and the Nottingham Education Bill of 1901', Journal of the History of Education, 10, 4 (1981).
S. Zaleski, Berridge: the Schools' first one hundred years (Nottingham, 1984)
A.H. Whipple, Education in Nottingham 1924-1933
Roger Moore, `Hadow reorganisation in a community setting: A.H. Whipple and the William Crane School in Nottingham 1931-38’, History of Education, 30 (2001)
Ruth I. Johns (ed.), Elliott Durham, the comprehensive school on the hill and St Anns in inner-city Nottingham (1998)

Politics

French Revolution

M. Thomis, Politics and Society in Nottingham 1785-1835 (1969)
M. Fishman-Cross, ‘The people and the petition: Nottingham, 1775-1780’, Midland History, 24 (1999), 144-28
J.V. Beckett, ‘Nottinghamshire in the 1790s', Transactions of the Thoroton Society (1990)
J.V. Beckett, ‘Parliament and the Localities: the Borough of Nottingham’, in D. Dean and C. Jones, eds., Parliament and Locality, 1660-1939 (Edinburgh University Press for Parliamentary History, 1998)
J.V. Beckett, ‘Responses to War: Nottingham in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1793-1815’, Midland History, 22 (1997)
J.V. Beckett, ‘Recruitment into the armed forces in Nottinghamshire, 1793-1815’, Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 101 (1997)
M.C. Pottle, Loyalty and Patriotism in Nottingham, 1792-1816 (1988)
E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (1968) [use index to find sections relevant to Nottingham]
R.A.E. Wells, Riot and Political Dissaffection in Nottinghamshire in the Age of Revolution (Nottingham, 1984)
D. Fraser, ‘The Nottingham Press, 1800-1850', TTS, LXVII (1963)

Luddism

M. Thomis, Luddism in Nottingham
R.A. Church and S.D. Chapman, ‘Gravenor Henson and the Making of the English Working Class', in E.L. Jones and G.E. Mingay, eds., Land, Labour and Population in the Industrial Revolution (1966), pp. 130-61;
M.I. Thomis, ‘Gravenor Henson: the man and the myth', TTS, LXXV (1971), pp. 91-7
M.I. Thomis, ‘The Nottingham Captain: a Portrait of Jeremiah Brandreth, the Rebel', NH, 14 (1974)

Reform Crisis 1831-2

John Beckett, ‘The Nottingham Reform Bill Riots of 1831’, in C. Jones, P. Salmon, and R.W. Davis eds., Partisan Politics, Principle and Reform in Parliament and the Constituencies, 1689-1880 (Edinburgh, 2005), 114-38
M.I. Thomis, ‘Nottingham and the Reform Bill riots of 1831: new perspectives', T.T.S. LXXVII (1973)
K. Brand, ‘The destruction of Nottingham Castle, 1831', Nottinghamshire Historian 36 (1986), 15-21
R.A. Gaunt, ‘Neighbours from Hell? The Fourth Duke of Newcastle and the People of Nottingham in the Early Nineteenth Century’, Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 104 (2000), 99-112
S. Best, ‘The Reform Riots in Sneinton', Sneinton Magazine, 17 (1985), pp. 7-14, 45

Chartism

P. Wyncoll, Nottingham Chartism (1966)
J. Epstein, ‘Some organization and cultural aspects of the Chartist movement in Nottingham', in J. Epstein and D. Thompson, eds., The Chartist Experience: studies in Working-Class Radicalism and Culture 1830-60 (1982)
Che Binder, `The Nottingham Electorate and the Election of the Chartist, Feargus O’Connor, 1847’, TTS, 107 (2003), 145-62
C.P. Griffin, ‘Chartism and Opposition to the New Poor Law in Nottinghamshire', Midland History, 2 (1974), pp. 244-9.
D. Fraser, ‘Nottingham and the Corn Laws', TTS, LXX (1966), pp. 81-104

Elections

J.H. Moses, ‘Elections and Electioneering in the Constituencies of Nottinghamshire, 1702-1832', (University of Nottingham, Ph.D thesis, 1965)
D. Cutting, ‘The Nottingham Parliamentary Election of 1865' (University of Nottingham, M.Phil. thesis, 1972).
A.C. Wood, ‘Sir Robert Clifton, 1826-69', TTS LVII (1953)
A.C. Wood, ‘Nottingham Parliamentary Elections 1869-1900', TTS, LX (1956), pp. 50-65
P. Wood, ‘Political Developments in Nottingham, 1868 to 1885' (University of Nottingham, M.A. thesis, 1989)
Lord Snell, Men, Movements and Myself (1938)
P. Wyncoll, ‘The First International in Nottingham', Marxism Today, December 1968, pp. 372-80
Robert Bell, ‘Late Starter? The Rise of the Labour Party in Nottingham, 1890-1939’, Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 104 (2000) 125-34

Religion

Brook, Bibliography, 60-75
Michael Watts, ed., Religion in Victorian Nottinghamshire (1988)
M.R. Watts, The Dissenters, I (Oxford, 1978), II (Oxford, 1995)
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