Honouring St. Michael
coventrysociety CovSoc member and Chair of the Friends of Coventry Cathedral, Martin Williams, tells us about the historic quarter day of Michaelmas. Martin writes… On September 29th each year we celebrate…
September 2023
CovSoc Response to the Local Plan Consultation
Further to our article earlier in September, the Coventry Society has now submitted its response to the consultation on the Issues and Options paper. The Coventry Society – the city’s…
New Measures to Enable Active Travel in Foleshill
The City Council has announced new measures to improve pedestrian crossings, provide a high-quality cycleway and improve bus service reliability are to be introduced along the Foleshill Road after a…
Heritage Open Day at Drapers’ Hall
The Coventry Society hosted a Heritage Open Day event at Drapers’ Hall on Sunday 17th September 2023, courtesy of Historic Coventry Trust. Over 370 people visited the Hall to inspect…
Roger Harrabin talks to CovSoc
When Coventry Kid Roger Harrabin joined the BBC in the mid-1980s to report on environmental affairs, acid rain was a concern but nobody ever mentioned climate change. Nearly forty years…
CovSoc meets Delia
For the last visit of the summer, twenty CovSoc members were given a tour of the new Delia Derbyshire Building – and they loved it! On 6th September our colleagues…
Visit to Holy Family Church
In a second article, CovSoc founder member, Paul Maddocks tells us about Holy Family Church, which the Society visited last month. Paul writes….. On 24th August we visited Holy Family…
Chile 50th Anniversary Commemoration of the Coup d’etat
Invitation on behalf of Sergio Requena-Rueda and the Unite Coventry & Warwickshire ‘Tom Mann’ Branch to a rich programme of events in Coventry that will commemorate the 50th anniversary of…
The Arts Society Coventry – New Venue, New Programme
The Arts Society Coventry 2023/24 series of exciting and varied monthly meetings commences on Tuesday 19th September with a lecture on The Post-War Textile Visionaries of Modern Art by Ashley…
Join us for Heritage Open Days
Heritage Open Days run from Friday 8th until Sunday 17th September 2023. There is a huge programme of events in Coventry and we hope that you will take this opportunity…