Incubation Conference

Nottingham is best-known as the home of Robin Hood, that notoriously generous political activist of the early Middle Ages who robbed from the rich to give to the poor. But Robin was not the only Nottingham radical to become world-famous. The Luddite machine-breakers also came from the same region, as did the poet Byron and the novelist D.H. Lawrence. Mathematician Ada Lovelace, Byron's daughter and advisor to William Babbage in the construction of the Difference Engine, lived in neighbouring Leicestershire, and another famous mathematician, George Green, worked as a miller in Sneinton.

The city has a thriving night-life with many cinemas, pubs, clubs and cafe-bars, as well as a good selection of shops including two city-centre malls.