Centenary publications
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.
An online version is also available:
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword by
Myles Thoroton Hildyard, President of the Thoroton Society
- Introduction: County History and County History Societies by John Beckett
- Dr Robert Thoroton and the Antiquities of Nottinghamshire (1677) by Adrian Henstock
- Nottinghamshire Historical Writing, 1677-1997 by Adrian Henstock
- The Thoroton Society by Neville Hoskins
- Conclusion by John Beckett
- Notes
- Appendix compiled by Geoffrey Oldfield.
Centenary Index to the Transactions, Record Series and Excavation Section, 1897-1997. Compiled by Laurence Craik.
Compiled by Laurence Craik, it is a revised and
extended version of his previous index published in 1977. Its main features
are:
- Over 10,000 entries in 64 pages
- Relates to Transactions, vols l-100, Record Series, vols l-40, and Annual Reports of former Excavation Section, 1936-40.
- Index to pre-1997 volumes extended and revised
- Separate author/editor and place/subject indexes
- 'Period' groupings for subjects, e.g. 'Bronze Age', 'Mediaeval', 'Civil War'.
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