The City of Nottingham as we know it today began life as an Anglo-Saxon settlement. By the late nineteenth century, Nottingham had developed into a thriving city. Through photographs, documents and other images, Nottingham From Old Photographs reflects the change from the early settlement of Tigguo Cobauc (a place of cave dwellings) to one of the leading cities in England. Most of the photographs and research within these pages have come from the collection of the late Paul Nix of the Nottingham Hidden History Team (NHHT). The work of the NHHT exceeds well over forty years. Combined with the author's own collection and never-before-published documents, images and photographs from the Paul Nix Collection, we see a new side to Nottingham, an ever-changing city.

Joseph Earp is a Nottingham-based historian and writer. He has already written five books on Nottingham local history including: Nottingham From Old Photographs, Secret Nottingham, Victorian and Edwardian Nottingham Through Time, Secret Beeston and Lost Nottingham. Joseph also runs the Nottingham Hidden History Team. Joseph has also appeared on BBC East Midlands Today and BBC Radio Nottingham as historical advisor for the programme on Huntingdon Beaumont and Britain’s first railway line. He has also wrote a series of local history articles for the Nottingham Post, Nottingham Bygones, The Topper Newspaper and Our Nottinghamshire website. Joseph is currently History Editor for the Beestonian magazine. He also regularly writes for LeftLion Magazine, his previous Street Tales series being particularly popular with LeftLion readers.