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Parklands in Wartime: Nottingham’s parks in WW1 and WW2
11 August 2016, 2pm Local Studies Library, Angel Row A talk by Jonathan Coope Jonathan will describe the impact of two world wars on Nottingham’s parks. From fundraising band concerts […]
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Local History and Archaeology Fair 9 July 2016
The Green Spaces Project had a stall at the Local History and Archaeology Fair at the University of Nottingham on 9 July 2016. The extremely wet morning may have kept […]
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Nottingham’s Historic Green Spaces Exhibition
Using pictures, film and the written word this Exhibition celebrates these spaces and reveals something about why they were created, where they are located, how they have been used, and in what ways […]
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Enclosure Parks tree trail leaflet published
Nottingham City Council, in conjunction with the Nottingham Green Spaces project, has just published a new Tree Trail leaflet giving details of many of the most significant types of trees […]
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14th Annual Inclosure Walk 3 July 2016
About 50 people came to the 14th Inclosure Walk on Sunday 3 July 2016. It was a lovely day – not too hot and not too cold. In all, we […]
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Animals in the Parks
Apart from the odd squirrel or blackbird, or duck on a pond, it is not usual to associate parks with animals, but some of Nottingham’s parks and open spaces have […]
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Open Air Schools in Nottingham Parks
by Judith Mills, University of Nottingham and Val Wood, Friends of the Arboretum Towards the end of the First World War, Nottingham’s Board of Education began to promote an ‘open […]
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Ten short films about the Green Lungs of Nottingham
Excavate are currently working on a series of ten very short films that will feature ten characters from across the ages talking about the many ways in which the parks […]
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Nottingham’s Enclosure Act 1845: the context and arguments
By the end of the 18th Century, Nottingham was overcrowded; housing was inadequate and the insanitary conditions led to a higher than average mortality rate. The densely populated centre was […]
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Problems running the parks during WW1
By Malcolm Prosser and Jonathan Coope. It is worth noting that anti-social behaviour in the parks didn’t stop simply because there was a war on. A number of instances of […]
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