A range of displays can be loaned from Archives, free-of-charge, by schools, community venues and other organisations. They are sets of panels that attach by velcro to backing boards - the backing boards would need to be provided by the host organisation. The displays include:
Nottinghamshire's African Caribbean Heritage
A set of six panels, each measuring 81cm x 56cm. They comprise:
- An introductory panel
- Slavery
- Abolition
- George Africanus - Nottingham's first black businessman
- The African Caribbean community in the twentieth century
- 'Past meets present'.
Archives 4 Youth
A set of five panels, each measuring 84cm x 60cm. They comprise:
- Discovering Nottinghamshire Archives
- Using archives
- School days
- Sport
- Making history.
Forbidden Love
A set of seven panels, each measuring 84cm x 59cm. They comprise:
- Forbidden relationships
- The Bawdy Court: records of the ecclesiastical courts
- Affairs of the Heart: extra-marital relationships
- 'Everybody was against you': gay relationships
- 'Prejudice on both sides': interracial relationships
- 'Still forbidden?': attitudes today
- Forbidden love acknowledgement panel
World War One
A set of nine panels, four measuring 84cm x 59cm and five wartime posters measuring 76 x 54 cm. The panels comprise:
- Albert Captain Ball - air ace
- Raymond Pegg - the experience of school pupils
- Mrs E H Cupitt - the experience of women
- Lieutenant J Glynne Morris - the fallen
Wheels of Fortune: Raleigh cycles
A set of eight panels, four measuring 84cm x 57cm and four Raleigh advertising posters measuring 76 x 57 cm. The panels comprise:
- Wheels of Fortune: the story of Raleigh Cycles of Nottingham
- Champion Cyclists: long-distance, sprint and road racing
- Raleigh at War: a national supplied
- Raleigh and Lenton: local landscape
Apprenticeships
Produced in partnership with The Workhouse, Southwell, a set of six panels, four measuring 75cm x 59cm and two measuring 84cm x 59cm, with a headline panel, a small introduction panel and three small acknowledgment panels:
- From Southwell Workhouse to Shoemaker: the life of John Widdowson
- For the apprentice's sake
- Ran away to sea
- A better life?
- The Cuckney Mill apprentices (two panels)
Booking a display
For further information, and to book a set of the above panels, please contact the Senior Archivist (Public Services).
You will be advised to complete a Booking Form, which is available here: Display Panels Booking Form [PDF 31KB]
