Nottinghamshire Local History Association’s Autumn Forum
Saturday 26th October 2024, 10am – 4pm, at Ravenshead Village Hall, 11 Vernon Crescent Ravenshead NG15 9BP, £9 members, £10 non-members, book via EVENTBRITE
Programme
9.30am Registration and Refreshments
10.00am Welcome
10.15am Philip Jones: Historic Gardens of Nottinghamshire.
11.30am Karen Winyard: Rufford Abbey and its 19th century ‘Savile’ custodians’.
12.30pm Lunch & Book Stalls
1.30pm Keith Small: The River Trent in the landscape and history.
2.45pm David Barton: The regicide and the authoress: John and Lucy Hutchinson of Owthorpe.
4.00pm Close
Speakers
Philip Jones, a former local studies librarian, is now a freelance garden historian, currently researching the Victorian and Edwardian gardens at Newstead Abbey and its head gardeners. Nottinghamshire has a strong horticultural tradition going back to the creation of the great ducal estates of Welbeck, Clumber, Worksop and Thoresby in the 17th and 18th centuries. This talk draws on the wealth of gardening heritage remaining in the county.
Karen Winyard mainly researches women’s history and the history of poverty and the 19th century poor laws. Her interest in Rufford Abbey and the remarkable Savile family began whilst working on FONA’s ‘Savile Project’. She looks at the dramatic twists and turns in the tangled Savile inheritance, the personalities of its various owners and the life of the Abbey during their custodianship.
Keith Small is now retired after more than 40 years in management consultancy and education. A speaker on local and military history topics, he has also authored textbooks and on-line histories.
The talk looks at the palaeontology and geology of the River Trent and its effect on local communities, commerce, industries and leisure.
David Barton is a local historian with an especial interest in 17th century Nottinghamshire. Formerly the International Education Manager at Nottingham People’s College, he is currently Secretary of NLHA.
He will be telling the story of a complex local family living in dangerous and difficult times 400 years ago.
