Dr Tony Shaw

'Lenton Green Green is the new gold fine woven through our community, cross-stitched point to point by paths, plants, seats where we gre...

Thomas Helwys (c.1575-c.1616), born in Gainsborough, was a founder of the General Baptists. Broxtowe Hall was the family home. He married Jo...

'Xylophone Man' Frank Robinson Frank dies in July 2004 aged 72. He played his xylophone here for 15 years, bringing a sm...

'STANLEY MIDDLETON Novelist Lived here 1961-2009' The writer Stanley Middleton (1919-2009), who was born in Bulwe...

I read somewhere that Dr Andrew Asibong's favourite writers are Kafka, Marie NDiaye and, er, Stephen King. His PhD was titled 'Me...

Here we have a clearer picture than the sculpted likeness on his gravestone in Nottingham General Cemetery – surely taken from this? – o...

How can I write coherently or in any way meaningfully about Ray Gosling (1939 –2013) , a man best known for his former television appear...

Thomas Bailey (1785–1856) was a journalist and poet and the father of the poet Philip James Bailey (1816–1902). He was born in Nottingha...

A plaque on a building on the corner of Fletcher Gate and Middle Pavement, Nottingham, reveals that the writer Philip James Bailey once li...

When I was studying for my MA in Literature a fellow student told me that he'd been to Waterstones in Oxford and that an American as...

This morning I was interviewed about Karl Wood by Stuart Cresswell, the Managing Director of Simple Films Limited, Welsford, Nova Scoti...

Nottingham Subscription Library was established in 1816 and moved to Bromley House on Angel Row six years later. The plaque outside tell...

This is one I forgot about a few weeks ago when I was looking for (but didn't find) the Rev. Samuel Cox's grave. Samuel Bourne i...

Another chance discovery in Nottingham General Cemetery:   'IN MEMORY OF ROBERT GOODACRE OF STANDARD HILL, WHO DIED AT ED...

The Peacock, Mansfield Road, Nottingham.   'With a history of famous clientele [the Peacock] is reputed to have been a regular...

'IN MEMORY OF CLARA GREEN, DAUGHTER OF THE LATE GEORGE GREEN, M.A. OF CAIUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE; AND FORMERLY OF SNEINTON; D...

  This sketch of Ruth Bryan (1805–60), 'Ruth the Gleaner', was drawn from memory by Margaret Lacey. This is taken from the front...

On the cover of the current issue of the NME (17 November 2012) is Jake Bugg, an 18-year-old singer-songwriter from Nottingham, and ther...

William Booth (1829–1912), the founder of the Salvation Army, was born in this house in Notintone Place, Nottingham. This is now a mu...