First World War Memorial Day at St. John’s
coventrysociety On Saturday November 10, St John the Baptist Church is staging a day of Remembrance – a World War I Memorial Day for all those brave men and women who…
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20/20 Visions: Collaborative Planning and Place Making: Charles Campion
This book, published by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) looks back at fifty years of community led design and planning practice. It is based on the premise that…
All the Colours of the Guildhall
The St Mary’s Guildhall colouring book is now out! The City of Coventry Freemen’s Guild has done it again with its winning formula – ‘a colouring Book’ for all age…
Opposition to the Demolition of the Coventry Cross Grows
Today the Coventry Society submitted a petition to the City Council to save the Coventry Cross. Over 780 people in the city have said No to the Council’s plans to…
Shakespeare comes back to Coventry
A near sell-out crowd looked on as Coventry’s medieval jewel, St Mary’s Hall, sparkled into life with music, poetry and Shakespeare on the evening of October 9. Historian Jonathan Foyle,…
Coventry On Film: From ‘A Heap of Broken Images’
Coventry’s post-war reconstruction and the resilience of its people are the sub-plot for an evening of films about the city, to be screened at Warwick Arts Centre on Friday, November…
Professor Richard Farnell RIP
Many people in Coventry will mourn the untimely death of Professor Richard Farnell. Richard was a qualified Town Planner who worked as an Assistant Principal Planning Officer in the City…
Coventry Society Visit to St. Mark’s
For the October meeting of the Society, we got the chance to see inside the recently re-opened Grade II listed St. Mark’s Church, adjacent to Swanswell Park, with its remarkable…
The Foundation of our City
What links the Graham Sutherland tapestry at Coventry Cathedral, the Coventry Boy Statue by Philip Bentham, the Fisherman and the Nymph at Coombe Abbey by Percy George Bentham and the…
Dr Cathy Hunt, The History of Women in Coventry 1850 – 1950
Dr Cathy Hunt will talk about women who lived in Coventry between 1850 and 1950. This was a century of great change but on a day to day basis, progress…