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Getting Your Indentures
Many people who worked in a trade, skilled craft or profession served an apprenticeship. This exhibition draws on a wide variety of records held by Nottinghamshire Archives to look at the variety of ways an apprenticeship could be learnt, for example provided by the parish, a charity or borough. Told through the stories of individual characters, it highlights the life that an apprentice had to endure; for some it could be the start to a successful life, but for others it was a life of misery.
Discover more about getting your indentures here...
Archives 4 Youth
Ever wondered what it was like to go to school in the past?
Want to find out what sports and games young people played?
Interested in seeing archives created by young people?
Want to know how young people use archives today?
Find out all this and learn how you too can explore archives in our new exhibition!
Building For Life and Leisure
This classic exhibition highlights a selection of buildings throughout Nottinghamshire and uses the wealth of building plans, architectural drawings and other materials held at Nottinghamshire Archives to tell their histories.
When planning controls were introduced in the late nineteenth century, comprehensive records of the building process were produced. Detailed plans and architectural drawings had to be submitted to the local planning authority and many of these survive to give us a rich archive of our building heritage.
From the glamour of the Palais de Danse and the Arts and Craft style of Newark's Ossington Coffee Palace to the steel and concrete 'homes for heroes' in Wollaton and the new stands at Notts County Football Ground, this selection of buildings aims to highlight the wide range of buildings throughout the county and their archival heritage.
Mediaeval Nottingham
Discover more about our mediaeval heritage!
Nottinghamshire Archives holds a wealth of records relating to Nottingham during the Middle Ages. These archives tell us about how the town was run; trades and merchants; religious devotions and guilds; and law and order. Find out more in our exhibition.
Broad Marsh and Narrow Marsh - The Story of a Nottingham Community
Broad Marsh and Narrow Marsh was one of the most highly-populated parts of Nottingham by the nineteenth century, notorious for its network of overcrowded yards and alleys. Yet it was also a flourishing community with a wide variety of busy shops and services.
This exhibition brings together a range of archival documents, maps and photographs to explore the history of this unique part of the city.
The exhibition complements our book, Turning Back the Pages of Broad Marsh and Narrow Marsh, written by Nottinghamshire Archives staff and published in 2007.
Wheels of Fortune: The Story of Raleigh Cycles of Nottingham
This exhibition draws upon the archive of Raleigh Cycles, and features advertising material, photographs of the company and its workers, and even production and design records. It tells the story of the company and some of its most successful bicycles from its earliest days to modern times.
The original Wheels of Fortune exhibition was on display at the Weston Gallery, D H Lawrence Pavilion, Lakeside Arts Centre during 2008.
Nottinghamshire's African-Caribbean Heritage
This exhibition draws together a range of archival sources marking the African Caribbean heritage of Nottinghamshire. The earliest archival references to an African Caribbean presence; the devastating history of slavery; the life of George Africanus, Nottingham's 'first black entrepreneur'; and photographs of life in the twentieth century and beyond - all are represented in this online resource.
The exhibition complements a series of loanable display panels. Contact us to find out more.
