The Nottinghamshire Archives holds the

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s for the county of

Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated Notts.) is a landlocked county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. The traditi ...

. The archives are held at Castle Meadow Road,

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, and run by

Nottinghamshire County Council Nottinghamshire County Council is the upper-tier local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Nottinghamshire in England. It consists of 66 county councillors, elected from 56 electoral divisions every four years. The most recent election ...

Collections

The collections held by Nottinghamshire Archives are organised as follows: Source
"Archives: Collections and Catalogues"
''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

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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.

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''Nottinghamshire Archives Worldwide Catalogue'' (Nottinghamshire County Council). Retrieved 6 January 2017. 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.
Newsletter
' (Friends of Nottinghamshire Archives), no. 5 (January 2014), p. 4. Retrieved 6 January 2016.

References

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