A Centenary History of Nottingham

“In this book we shall be looking out of the window to try to explain the long history of Nottingham”. That is a simple image on a human scale which commends by its simplicity; it comes from the editor’s introduction to this monumental tribute to a city whose glamour ‐ for anyone fortunate enough to have experienced its amenities ‐ never fades. Urban history today is very different from the merely celebratory accounts of municipalities once fashionable; of recent growth, it now takes the form of well researched symposia of scholarly contributions, scrupulous analysis of evidence based on sound underlying...