Dr Tony Shaw

My thanks to Edwinstowe Historical Society for informing this May of the erection of a plaque to Christopher Thomson (1799-1871). The pla...

I missed this statue of Robin Hood and Maid Marian when I last visited Edwinstowe, so here it is. It's on the High Street, is by Ne...

Seven years ago Alan Smith sent me a photo of Ebenezer Cobham Brewer's grave in Ewinstowe, which had been restored after lying with i...

Now that we live in the north-west of England, in the Manchester area, we only go back to Nottingham a few times a year. After learning tha...

The Tuxford lock-up, Nottinghamshire, which screams the date it was built, 1823, before county police forces. An elected police constable...

East Markham parish church, Nottinghamshire. One of the south aisle windows, this one dedicated to the author Elizabeth Penrose. ...

The  boîtes à livres  in France are many, and I've mentioned a few of them on my blog here. There' i s even a website devoted ...

Elizabeth Glaister (1840–1892) was born in Sussex and died in Southwell, Nottinghamshire. She wrote several novels: The Markhams of Oller...

The grave of the poet Joan Adeney Easdale is in Wilford Hill Cemetery, Nottingham. She re-invented herself in Nottingham as Sophie Cur...

The Reverend John Thomas Becher (1770–1848) lived with his wife Mary at Hill House in Easthorpe, Southwell. He was a friend of L...

Many thanks to Bob O'Neill for sending me scans of this programme, which he discovered among some old documents that his mother ...

A very silly Guardian article, written by Claire Armistead and purely coincidentally written 1 April 2014 and concerning the opening of ...

To me it looks like a scene from a holiday brochure, and certainly it's difficult to imagine this idyllic setting in this country, le...

The Zachariah Green monument in Titchfield Park, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire. 'ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION IN MEMORY OF ...

'IN MEMORY OF KATHARINE, DEARLY BELOVED WIFE OF ROBERT ERNEST MORRIS, DIED JULY 27TH 1952. ALSO HER BELOVED HUSBAND ROBERT ERNEST MO...

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

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...