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Locating Lawrence: April 1924
Tue 09 Apr 2024D.H. Lawrence is settling back into life in Taos and appears to be happy. Long may this last...
Locating Lawrence: March 1924
Wed 13 Mar 2024He’s had enough of Europe and so sets sail to America in the hope of claiming unpaid royalties…
Locating Lawrence: February 1924
Fri 02 Feb 2024Yes, travelling the world is fun. But if you want to be happy, do a bit of housework…
Locating Lawrence: January 1924
Wed 03 Jan 2024The weather is miserable, and his latest novel is dividing critics…
Locating Lawrence: December 1923
Tue 05 Dec 2023In December, Lawrence begrudgingly returned to Blighty and immediately felt like a ‘caged coyote’. England seemed ‘dead and dark’ to him, and he felt ‘buried alive…under the yellow air.’ It didn’t help that he immediately caught a cold and was in bed...
Locating D.H. Lawrence: October 1923
Sun 22 Oct 2023What better way to spend October 1923 than travelling up and down the hills of Mexico while making wry observations of local towns...
Locating Lawrence: September 1923
Mon 25 Sept 2023It’s September 1923 and as always, D.H. Lawrence is keen to offer advice...
Locating D.H. Lawrence: August 1923
Mon 07 Aug 2023It’s August 1923 and D.H. Lawrence is living in a rented farm cottage in New Jersey that includes a private field and horse...
Locating D.H. Lawrence: July 1923
Mon 24 Jul 2023It’s July 1923, and D.H. Lawrence is crossing the border of Mexico into America where he encounters a ‘a vast and weary river that looks as if it had never wanted to start flowing’...
60 Years Later: Lawrence of Arabia
Sat 10 Dec 2022Sixty years on and David Lean's mythic of conqueror turned conquered still holds a spot as one of the best on-screen case studies of British imperialism and its impetus to irrationality...
We Look Further Into D.H.Lawrence and His Depiction of Same Sex Relationships
Mon 25 Jul 2022Born in Eastwood in 1885, D.H. Lawrence is one of Nottingham’s most famous writers, penning novels like Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow and Women in Love. But what did this prolific author have to say about same sex relationships? One of our literature writers Lewis Keech takes a deep dive into Lawrence’s novels to find out…
Exhibition Review: Editing DH Lawrence at Weston Gallery, Lakeside Arts
Fri 22 Apr 2022A new exhibition at Lakeside’s Weston Gallery explores DH Lawrence’s struggles with censorship, and the changes Nottingham has seen since it produced one of its most famous authors. Hannah Beresford takes a closer look into Lawrence’s salacious personal life.
Exhibition Review: ESW-213 Pine at TG Gallery
Sat 08 Jan 2022Pine furniture boards are set against bare white walls in TG Gallery, as Lawrence Leaman’s latest solo exhibition explores the intersection of textile, contemporary art, and the humble wooden shelf…
Preview: MasterChef Winner Laurence Henry’s new Nottingham Restaurant
Wed 29 Sept 2021After working with world renowned chefs like Sat Bains, Gordon Ramsay and Jason Atherton, then winning MasterChef in 2018, Nottingham chef Laurence Henry has announced his role as head chef at new restaurant Canal Turn.
Deep Fakes From Nottingham History
Wed 03 Mar 2021Ever wondered what it would be like to see video of historical figures who existed before video cameras? We've deep faked some figures from Nottingham history so you need wonder no more...
Racism in Notts: Remembering Stephen Lawrence
Fri 20 Apr 2018Sunday 22 April marks the 25th anniversary of the death of Stephen Lawrence, an apt time to think about the current state of racism…
Celebrating DH Lawrence's Birthday in a Tree
Sun 07 Jan 2018LeftLion’s owd Literature Editor James Walker, on retracting DH Lawrence’s footsteps across Eastwood...
Theatre Review: Pies and Peas with DH Lawrence
Mon 19 Jun 2017As part of The Little Bit Scruffy Festival, our former Literature Editor, James Walker, caught the celebration of DH Lawrence's work over in Matlock...
The Endless Rage of DH Lawrence: Mobile Phones
Mon 13 Feb 2017Nottingham's literary legend gives us his two-bob's worth. This month, on people playing games on their mobile phone...
The Endless Rage of DH Lawrence: Mannequin Shenanigans
Mon 05 Dec 2016The mardiest poet ever to exist is laying into social media trends, this month...
The Endless Rage of DH Lawrence: Zebra Crossings
Thu 10 Nov 2016Nottingham's biggest potty mouth and historical badman tells us what's been gerrin' his goat...
The Endless Rage of DH Lawrence
Sun 11 Sept 2016Once again, DH Lawrence tells us what angers him about the modern world...
D.H Lawrence Festival 2016
Wed 31 Aug 2016On 11 September the world changed forever and would never be the same again. A very mardy bloke from Eastwood was born