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"Memorials of old Nottinghamshire" by Everard L. Guilford and P. H. Ditchfield is a collection of local-history essays written in the early 20th century. The volume surveys Nottinghamshire’s past and character through its geography, archaeology, churches, great houses, poets, industries, and civic episodes, richly illustrated and contributed by multiple specialists. Expect a county portrait shaped by the River Trent, Sherwood Forest, and historic centers such as Nottingham, Newark, and Southwell.
The opening of the volume offers a preface explaining the change of editor, the aim to cover varied and sometimes novel subjects, and thanks to contributors. It then begins with a brisk county history that argues for blending documents, tradition, and fieldwork; elevates the Trent and Sherwood as decisive forces; and sketches a timeline from prehistoric cave-dwellers through Roman byways that skirted Nottingham, Saxon borderland shifts, Danish rule and the Five Boroughs, and the Norman dual b
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