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Archery GB National Tour: The Final

The Thompsons on wrestling at Victoria Lesiure Centre, local restaurants, and poetry

Our latest chat with Nottingham's most opinionated grocers.... 

Out of Time: How Sneinton's Victoria Lesiure Centre once hosted wrestling matches

Wrestling matches at what’s now the Victoria Leisure Centre on Gedling Street happened recently enough to be a childhood memory for some, but for others, it’s an almost forgotten occurrence. Here’s the colourful and chaotic history… 

The Thompsons talk Victoria Centre Market, Light Night and Andy Warhol

Nottingham's most opinionated greengrocers give us their take on Victoria Centre Market, Light Night and Andy Warhol

Market value: the past and present of Victoria Centre Market

Over the last few years, a part of Nottingham’s history has slowly started to vanish, with traders at the Victoria Centre Market being asked to end their hundred year leases partway through. A space that once hosted hundreds of local traders is now home to just a few- who find themselves in a state of limbo. Matteo D’Alesio visits to hear some of their concerns, while taking a step back in time to highlight what made the market special in the first place. 

Marsh Forum: The History of Victoria Baths

Victoria Melody and Mark Thomas Present Trouble, Struggle, Bubble and Squeak

Nottingham Carnival 2025

Nottingham Carnival

Our picks from the 2025 event calendar of the Malt Cross: Nottingham's preserved Victorian music hall

There are few locales near Old Market Square quite like the Malt Cross. As a nearly perfectly preserved Victorian music hall, the building toes the line between its status as a treasure trove of architectural history, and an epicentre of some of the city's most enjoyably 'out-there' occasions. Below, we've provided a rundown of what they have coming up this year...

A Most Victorian Murder

Victorian Condemned

The Weekend Festival

Nottingham Carnival 2024

Ebenezer Cobham Brewer: The Victorian writer from Notts who created his own dictionary

For more than 150 years, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable has been a prized possession for imaginative authors. In a house near Sherwood Forest, we remember the man who first wrote it…

Kidical Mass Nottingham

Victoria Villasenor Tells Us All About Her Latest Novel ‘Medea: Priestess, Princess, Witch'

Relocating from Los Angeles to the UK back in 2007, Victoria Villasenor started Global Wordsmiths in Nottingham over a decade ago, and has since published books under various pseudonyms including Brey Willows and Ally McGuire. She made the time to chat to us all about her thirteenth book Medea: Priestess, Princess, Witch, which has been released under the name JJ Taylor, writing LGBTQ+ fiction, and her advice to emerging queer authors…

Biscuit & Brew Are Moving to Victoria Street - Support Their Crowdfunder

Biscuit & Brew are moving to Victoria Street, and they need a bit of help to finish their new tea house and lounge...

Crime Club - Victorian Murderers

Reimag(in)ing the Victorians: Gallery Tours

Victoria Centre’s Emett Clock Turns 50 This Year

Between the Market Square lions, Anish Kapoor’s Sky Mirror at Nottingham Playhouse and Les Johnson’s Brian Clough statue, Nottingham has its fair share of iconic public art pieces, but none perhaps more fantastical than Victoria Centre’s Emett Clock, which turns fifty this year.

Crime Club - the Victorian Detective's Casebook

Reimag(in)ing the Victorians

Nottingham Carnival

Riverside Festival - Advanced Car Parking