The Bell Inn Cellars are opened to the public on regular guided tours. In 1998, Channel 4 television series "History Hunters" examined the claims of The Bell Inn, Ye Olde Salutation Inn and Ye Olde Trip To Jerusalem to each be the oldest pub in Nottingham. The programme, first broadcast on 5 December 1998, concluded that of the three, Ye Olde Salutation was the oldest "building" but the Bell had been the earliest in use as a pub. The Bell Inn The Bell Inn is an ancient pub in Nottingham, England. Dating from around 1437, it claims, along with Ye Olde Trip to
Opposition to the War of 1812 in Britain the U.S. alone made up more than half the cotton imports to Britain in the years leading up to the War of 1812. British opposition coalesced around the Orders in Council. Part of the larger maritime war with France, the Orders were intended to choke off French trade with the rest of world. The policy especially affected the neutral United States, which claimed it should be able to trade with both nations, since it was a neutral party in the war against Napoleon Bonaparte. While many in Britain saw the opposition to impressment as nothing more than whining, more sectors