The Quakers in Coventry
coventrysociety Quakers (The Religious Society of Friends) began with a Leicestershire weaver’s son, George Fox, who was born in Fenny Drayton in 1624. Fox’s Journal mentions his five visits to Coventry,…
2020
Broad Street Meeting Hall – All ready to open!
If it hadn’t been for the Coronavirus epidemic and the lock-down, the Coventry Society would have been visiting the new Broad Street Hall this evening (11th May 2020). In the…
The Centenary of a Planning Controversy
Canley Gardens Centenary: Echoes of today’s controversial planning compromises Innis Road, Bates Road, Nightingale Lane, The Riddings A hundred years ago this month the controversy surrounding the development of Canley…
Progress Despite the Lock-down!
Where in Coventry is this? No this is not another lock-down quiz! This is an actual picture of progress with the regeneration scheme for Burges and Hales Street. Despite the…
Coventry’s Secret Printing Press
Although the days of Good Queen Bess are portrayed as a golden age, particularly for the arts, exploration and commerce, it was not an age of free speech. It was…
Radford Under Park
We are very excited that the plans for the proposed innovative Radford Under Park, which will be a new pedestrian and cycle route passes under the raised section of the…
John Rastell 1475-1536
From his prison cell, John Rastell reflected bitterly on the crushing nature of his downfall after a life of startling achievement. He was, he wrote, ‘now by long imprisonment brought…
Coventry Society Annual Report 2019 – 2020
Chair’s report It’s a strange and difficult time we find ourselves in at the moment with Covid19. I am writing my second Chairperson’s report knowing that the AGM will not…
Going Smokeless in Coventry
It was 69 years ago that Coventry became the first UK city to go smokeless. March 1st, 1951 became ‘No Smoke Day’, heralding Coventry city centre as the UK’s first…
A Half Century of Earth Day
Today, 22nd April 2020, marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. A global event in more than 193 countries. In 1969, at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco, peace activist…