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Description: Experts from the Universities of Nottingham and Exeter are to ensure that a nationwide survey, commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th-century England and Wales, be made publicly accessible for the first time.The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesiasticus, set out to discover the financial state of the Church of which the Tudor king had just made himself head in his Break with Rome.Valor Ecclesiasticus counted 8,000 parish churches, 650 monasteries, 22 cathedrals and numerous chapels, chantries, colleges, schools, hospitals and poor houses. It took note of their buildings and grounds, their farmland and the commercial, industrial and residential property in which they were invested. And it recorded the names of many of the men and women who lived and worked with these great enterprises and even gave attention to the large number of children, elderly and sick who depended on them for their welfare.
Date:: 12/11/2025

Description: A Professor of Viking Studies at the University of Nottingham has led an ambitious new project and produced a fresh, annotated English translation of one of the most important medieval texts of northern Europe – The Saga of the Earls of Orkney (Orkneyinga Saga).
Date:: 12/11/2025

Description: Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins writes on 'Wicked' for The Conversation
Date:: 22/11/2024

Description: Marco Panato has co-organised a session with a colleague from Utrecht University at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds. This is the largest conference on the Middle Ages worldwide.
Date:: 19/06/2024

Description: Dr Tarik Oumazzane, who convenes the 'Voices from North Africa: Resistance, Decolonisation and State Building' Special Subject module, invited two Moroccan diplomats to come speak to students on the mass reforms that have taken place in Morocco in the last twenty years.
Date:: 30/05/2024

Description: Professor Anna Greenwood and Associate Professor Richard Hornsey have collaborated with the Boots Archive on a new exhibition to mark the 175th anniversary of the opening of John Boot's herbalist store on Nottingham's Goose Gate.
Date:: 10/05/2024

Description: Dr Dalton Rawcliffe publishes "A successful transnational cold war intervention? Revisiting the Heung Yee Kuk's 'goodwill' tour of Britain's Chinatowns, 1967–1970".
Date:: 26/04/2024

Description: From the 1st of August 2024 academic staff, students, and degree programmes in the University of Nottingham Department of Theology and Religious Studies will be re-housed in the Department of Philosophy.
Date:: 16/04/2024

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