Dredging up a new history of transport and trade on the Trent

Historians from The University of Nottingham are teaming up with local history societies, libraries and museums in Nottinghamshire to draw up a new history of the river Trent.

This new collaboration between members of the University, local historians, waterways heritage groups and interested individuals will produce a comprehensive study of the river Trent since the mid-nineteenth century, to be published as a full-length book. The project kicks off with a one day University of Nottingham ‘Day School’ in association with the Friends of Newark Heritage Barge and the Railway and Canal Historical Society on Saturday 18 May 2013.

The one-year research project is called ‘Transport and Trade on the Trent, 1850-1970’ and has been funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of its Connected Communities Programme. This enables universities to develop closer links with the wider community and is a useful way of gathering ‘living history’ accounts from people who have memories to contribute to modern research.