Nottinghamshire Archives


The Nottinghamshire Archives holds the archives for the county of Nottinghamshire. The archives are held at Castle Meadow Road, Nottingham, and run by Nottinghamshire County Council.

Collections

The collections held by Nottinghamshire Archives are organised as follows:
SeriesTitleNotes
CCourt records15th – 20th centuries
DD, MDeposited documents12th – 20th centuries
DCDistrict and Borough Council recordsMostly 1894 – 1974
EAEnclosure awards18th – 19th centuries
—Maps and plans16th – 20th centuries
NCNon-conformist records17th – 20th centuries
CANottingham City Council records12th – 20th centuries
CCNottinghamshire County Council records1889 – 1974
OSOrdnance Survey mapsc. 1830 – c. 1940
PaCParish Council records1894 onwards
PRParish records16th – 20th centuries
X/PRPrints and illustrations17th – 20th centuries
PProbate records16th – 20th centuries
SSchool records19th – 20th centuries
SOSemi-official records16th – 20th centuries
SCSouthwell Chapter records12th – 19th centuries
DRSouthwell Diocesan recordsMostly from 1884
ATTithe awards1836 – c. 1850

Source: , Nottingham County Council. Retrieved 18 September 2016.

Archivists

In 1939, Nottingham Corporation appointed Violet Walker the first City Archivist; she had been appointed a librarian at Radford in 1926, before moving to Nottingham Reference Library in 1928, where she became librarian in 1936 and oversaw the re-cataloguing of its stock using the Dewey decimal system. While City Archivist, Walker's translation of the Newstead Cartulary was published. She retired in 1966 and her assistant of two years, Adrian Henstock, took over the post. When the City and County Archives merged in 1974, Henstock became Principal Archivist and served in that post until he retired in 2003. Mark Dorrington succeeded him, and remained in the post for 10 years, before becoming Keeper of Manuscripts and Special Collections, University of Nottingham in 2013. Ruth Imeson replaced him at the Archives as Team Manager, Archives and Local Studies, Nottinghamshire County Council, at the start of 2014.