Sherwood Times: 8 books

A musical play, plus extracts from the Wipers Times, a newspaper produced on the front line by Sherwood Foresters, plus Albert Ball, Fred Karno, Morgan Kingston, Eric Coates and Sherwood Rangers tank regiment  

Queen Mother Eleanor pays ransom to release King Richard but Earl John's Nottingham Castle holds out against him; plus features in fashion, ballads of Robin Hood and Tales of King Arthur

A poet and revolutionary, champion prizefighter and evangelist, a salvationist, two famous authors, a film maker, a cricket legend, a pioneering artist and eight songs.

Historical novel features the invasions of 1066 that change the lives an Earl's mistress, a young sailor, and three men from Edwinstowe, one of them a housecarle (soldier) who recites poetry and falls for a Welsh minstrel girl.

The Pilgrim Fathers contained religious Separatists who had fled England for Holland in 1608 to escape repression in England. Among them was William Brewster and his family from Scrooby Manor, Nottinghamshire.

Judy Garland was a little Mozart of song and dance. Though forever remembered as the wistful Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, it was her plaintive quality, her humour, her ability to be dramatic and send herself up that made her a unique artist.

Star of stage, screen, radio & vaudeville, Al Jolson billed himself as' The World's Great Entertainer' and who could argue? Working in blackface he sang songs about his southern 'Mammy' with a passion that endeared him to Broadway audiences.

William Marshal held a code of honour as genuine as those of the Knights of the Round Table. He made himself the hero of the tournaments and served Eleanor of Aquitaine, King Henry 11, Richard 1, Young King Henry- for whom he went on crusade- King John and Henry 111. He negotiated the Magna Carta...