Mapping the moment

PA 268/09 "Roll up..roll up! The University of Nottingham is proud to present.." a web-based time machine which will take you back to the world of popular entertainment in Victorian Nottingham. 'Mapping the Moment' is a new website which is the result of a major research project to investigate the rich and varied entertainment scene in Nottingham over eleven years in the middle of the 19th century. It will be a unique and invaluable public resource for local historians, researchers, schools and colleges and anyone interested in the social and cultural history of this historic East Midlands town. Experts on theatre history and geographical information science from the Schools of English Studies and Geography have delved deep into the archives to produce an interactive 'window-on-the-world' of theatre, music and other public events on offer in the town between 1857 and 1867. The website provides layers of historical information and images over a spatial representation of the town making material that has previously been difficult to access, available digitally. The project was funded by a £290,000 grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council and has taken three years of painstaking research to develop.