Talk by Dr Chris King on the human-made caves of Nottingham, led by the Society for Lincolnshire History & Archaeology.
Dr Chris King is coming to St Hugh's Church on Wednesday 11 November to talk about Nottingham's underground heritage. The evening is run by the Society for Lincolnshire History & Archaeology (SLHA), and it centres on the hundreds of human-made caves carved into the city's soft sandstone — a subterranean urban landscape that reflects how Nottingham developed over centuries.
What makes the caves so strange is how many different things they've been used for. They range from medieval tanneries and malt-kilns to 18th-century sand-mines, aristocratic drinking dens, Victorian garden follies, slum housing, pub cellars and Second World War air-raid shelters. It's a city beneath the city, with the different layers showing how the place changed from the medieval period right through to the mid-twentieth century.
Dr King is an Associate Professor in the School of Humanities at the University of Nottingham and the PI of the AHRC-funded City of Caves project. He's leading a new collaborative project with local partners to study the archaeology and heritage of Nottingham's medieval and later caves, drawing on a long tradition of antiquarian, archaeological and community research. The talk is his chance to share what that work is uncovering.
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The evening runs from 7:30pm to 9pm at St Hugh's Church, 34 Broadgate, Lincoln, LN2 5AQ, and tickets are £4 for non-members.
