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The Nottingham Blitz was the Nazi German Luftwaffe bombing on the city of Nottingham on the evenings of 8/9 May 1941 as part of a nationwide campaign to disrupt key industrial production, undermine morale and destroy factories, rail networks and infrastructure. During one air raid alone 140 people had been killed and 4,500 houses had been ...
1693 – Nottingham Waterworks Company established. 1723 – Bluecoat school built. [9] 1726 – Nottingham Exchange built. 1732 – Richard Arkwright the inventor was born. 1741 – Nottingham Journal newspaper begins publication. [10] 1743 – Chapel Bar, the last remaining medieval city gate was demolished for the widening of the road.
In 874, following their winter stay in Repton (in present-day Derbyshire), the Great Heathen Army drove King Burgred of Mercia into exile and conquered Mercia; the Vikings replaced the exiled Mercian king with King Ceolwulf II of Mercia. According to Alfred the Great's biographer, Asser, the Vikings then split into two bands.
Nottingham from the east, c. 1695, painted by Jan Siberechts. Nottingham is situated on an area of low hills [42] along the lower valley of the River Trent, and is surrounded by the Sherwood Forest in the north, the Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Yorkshire Coalfield in the west, and the Trent and Belvoir Vales in the east and south.
The counties of England in 1086. The first mention of the shire of Nottingham occurs in 1016, when it was harried by Canute.The boundaries have remained practically unaltered since the time of the Domesday Survey from 1086, and the eight Domesday wapentakes were unchanged in 1610; in 1719 they had been reduced to six, their present number, Oswaldbeck being absorbed in Bassetlaw, of which it ...
William was the actual author of the Commentary on the Gospels [15] that was formerly attributed to the earlier William of Nottingham. [n 2] Based on Clement of Llanthony's One from Four, the postill was well known for centuries and survives in numerous manuscripts.
In the seventh century the pagan Anglo-Saxons were converted to Christianity (Old English: Crīstendōm) mainly by missionaries sent from Rome.Irish missionaries from Iona, who were proponents of Celtic Christianity, were influential in the conversion of Northumbria, but after the Synod of Whitby in 664, the Anglo-Saxon church gave its allegiance to the Pope.
The "revolution" began on 9 June 1817. Brandreth had held a final meeting at a pub in Pentridge, or Pentrich, The White Horse, where he and his fellow conspirators were to lead a march on Nottingham where "they would receive 100 guineas, bread, meat and ale." They would then lead an attack on the local barracks, overthrow the government and end ...