Centenary Commemorative Booklet
The Thoroton Society. A Commemoration of its first 100 years.
Edited by John Beckett. Nottingham, 1997.
Founded
in 1897, the Thoroton Society has been promoting the study of the history,
archaeology and antiquities of Nottinghamshire for one hundred years.
With a membership of more than 500, and a flourishing lecture, excursion
and publications programme, it is as lively today as when, on 1 June 1897,
the founding fathers met in the Grand Jury Room of the (then) Shire Hall,
Nottingham, to launch the Society. This booklet offers the reader an insight
into the life of the Thoroton Society since 1897, and it also includes
a brief account of the work of Dr Robert Thoroton (after whom the Society
is named), and of local history in Nottinghamshire since the seventeenth
century. Members of the Society, and anyone with an interest in the study
of Nottinghamshire’s past should find it a fascinating read.
Printed copies may be obtained from Mr. David Bagley, 29 Shelt Hill, Woodborough, Nottingham, NG14 6DG, price £5.00 which includes postage and packing. Please make cheques payable to The Thoroton Society.
An online version is also available:
Foreword by Myles Thoroton Hildyard,President of the Thoroton Society
i. Introduction: County History and County History Societies, by John Beckett
ii. Dr Robert Thoroton and the Antiquities of Nottinghamshire (1677), by Adrian Henstock
iii. Nottinghamshire Historical Writing, 1677-1997, by Adrian Henstock
iv. The Thoroton Society, by Neville Hoskins
Conclusion, by John Beckett
Appendix, compiled by Geoffrey Oldfield