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Win A Pair of Tickets For Could Be Real Tribute Festival
Wed 01 Mar 2023Get your dancing shoes on and prepare for a mind-blowing musical extravaganza, as the Could Be Real Tribute Festival descends upon the stunning grounds of Newstead Abbey on Friday 5 July 2024. LeftLion have a pair of tickets to give away to one lucky winner.
Inspired by His Hometown of Newstead Village, Author Jim Gibson Lifts the Lid on His Short Story Collection, The Bygones
Mon 14 Nov 2022Combining the supernatural with the mundane, Nottingham author Jim Gibson has just published his debut short story collection, The Bygones - a project based loosely around his hometown of Newstead Village. Made up of 21 stories, it muses on a place that has been forgotten by the world, the everyday minutiae of life and the oddness that is so often found in rural communities. We catch up with the writer to find out about how he uses the place as a character, how he put the collection together and much more…
Have I Got Newstead For You: Ian Hislop On His Satirical Exhibition Showing at Newstead Abbey
Wed 14 Aug 2019Private Eye Editor and Have I Got News For You panellist Ian Hislop is no stranger to satire. He was in Nottingham recently to launch an exhibition of satirical art at Newstead Abbey. It’s an offshoot of the British Museum’s 2018 exhibition I object: Ian Hislop’s search for dissent. Together with British Museum Curator Tom Hockenhull, Ian has selected nine of his favourite British satirical prints by Gillray and Cruikshank, among others, which are on display all summer...
Miranda Seymour on Lord Byron, Ada Lovelace and Life at Newstead Abbey
Tue 09 Jan 2018The English literary critic and novelist talks us through the legacy of the historical figures...
Becky Cullen is Newstead Abbey's Poet-in-Residence
Tue 21 Jun 2016"When I started the residency I knew a bit about Lord Byron's poems, but I understood very little about him. I've discovered that he was a complex man"
Newstead Abbey in Photos
Thu 24 Jan 2013A nose around the former home of Lord Byron, a poet who was "Mad, bad and dangerous to know"
Interview: Headstock Festival's Mick Leivers
Wed 07 Sept 2011Headstock is a three-day music festival that takes place at the Newstead & Annesley Country Park, but if you think it’s another opportunity to listen to landfill indie whilst being bombarded with mobile phone adverts, think again; this event is geared towards getting an ex-mining community back on its feet and turning it back into a self-sustainable community. Headstock MD Mick Leivers tells us about this prime example of Notts folk mekkin’ their own entertainment…
The Duke of Portland
Sat 05 Feb 2011The aristocracy of Nottinghamshire has produced more than its fair share of mad gets, but – according to Andrew Graves and his alter ego, Mulletproof Poet – The 5th Duke of Portland takes the biscuit, if not the whole packet…
The White Lady of Newstead on How She Bit the Dust
Tue 09 Oct 2018We caught up with one of Newstead’s shyest ghostly inhabitants, Byron super-fan Sophie Hyatt aka The White Lady of Newstead…
The Lives and Deaths at Newstead Abbey
Mon 08 Oct 2018The phrase is more burned out than the promiscuous Lord Byron’s pants, but Newstead Abbey is a “hidden gem”. Ten miles north of Nottingham and with over 800 years worth of history, this extraordinary estate may put a spell on you. With acres of romantic gardens and architecture to delight your inner goth, Newstead attracts many visitors; outside of Byron’s escapades, its monastic origins and centuries of spooky goings-on have fascinated many. From artefacts to ghost-story evenings, Byron is just the beginning of what this mysterious place has to offer. Buckle up for a history lesson that’s stranger than fiction...