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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 HeritageAn Archives' display panel

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

An Archives' display panel

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] pdf logo

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