Join Chris Weir on a Thursday Morning for a 5 week course for just £42.50

This course explores the impact of the Georgian period on the landscape and culture of Nottinghamshire.  Discover how the 18th century ‘garden town’ of  ‘Nottingham’ was transformed into an industrial hub, how country houses sprang up all over the county and how the gentry and merchant classes discovered leisure.  They drank tea, danced the quadrille and occasionally journeyed to spas and seaside resorts.  But there was another Georgian Nottinghamshire that was rooted in restrictive Poor Law settlement laws, seasonal farm work, crime and the miseries of child labour. These 5 sessions will reveal these themes using archive sources, printed books and images of the period.