The Nottingham and District Hosiery Workers' Society was a trade union representing machine knitters in and around Nottingham, in England.
The union was founded in 1925, when the Nottingham United Rotary Power Framework Knitters' Society merged with the Nottingham Circular Framework Knitters' Society, and the Nottingham Female Hosiery Workers' Union.
[1] In 1942, the union's general secretary, William Hartshorn, died, and the union was unable to agree on a replacement from any internal candidates.
Eventually, Jack Charlesworth, president of the Nottingham and District Hosiery Finishers' Association, was appointed.
[2] He was able to almost double membership, to 3,500, and resolve serious disputes between the men's and women's sections.