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Castle Street, where I had a bedsit during my time at uni, is a street of quirky nineteenth century houses of great character. The pub at th...

  (This article was first published in Sneinton Magazine, issue 38, Spring 1991) Peter Elliot Bates never achieved international fame. He wa...

I wrote the dissertation just over 50 years ago in 1973, as part of my B/ed with History degree at Trent Polytechnic, which was at that tim...

Whereas in other areas at this time growth was brought about by migrants from Nottingham, driven out by conditions and prices in the town, t...