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ASPECTS OF LOCAL HISTORY

Talks to be held at the EBA Bowls Club Tattershall Drive, The Park

Following on the success of the talks in the spring The NPRA have put together the following Autumn programme for your interest and enjoyment. We hope that you can join us.

Voices of Victorian Women Wednesday 19th October 7.30pm

Doors and Bar open at 7pm.  

The talk: Readings from three great novelists of the mid-Victorian period: Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot, illustrating the voices of women young and old, rich and poor, in all their glorious variety. Be prepared for humour, romance and pathos!

The Speaker: Anita Fernandez Young has taught in the Business School at Nottingham University for the past ten years, but is also the Secretary of the Alliance of Literary Societies and Treasurer of the International Dickens Fellowship. She has given readings in London, Dublin, Knutsford and has now retired to devote her time to writing.

Travellers Tales of Nottingham 1540-1840 Wednesday 16th November 7.30pm

Doors and Bar open at 7pm

The Talk Between 1540 and 1770 Nottingham was transformed from a decayed timber-built mediaeval borough to a fashionable brick-built Georgian town. However by 1840 it had become an overcrowded and insanitary industrial city. This talk is based on comments about Nottingham from the Tudor to the Georgian period by both visitors and inhabitants, illustrated by numerous contemporary maps and engravings.

The Speaker Adrian Henstock is a former curator of the Nottinghamshire County Archive and well known local historian

All are welcome. The charge is £5 per talk for NPRA members and £8 non members. Any current non member can save £6 if they attend both lectures by joining the NPRA in advance of these talks. To guarantee your place please reply contact Ron Leslie, ronleslie@hotmail.com, 10 Cavendish Crescent North, The Park, Nottingham NG7 1BA to let us know the number of tickets that you need. Cheques should be payable to NPRA.