Gabriele Munter
Gabriele Munter: Expressionism, The Rise of The Blue Rider and beyondA lecture by Colin Pink Tuesday 8th October 2024 – Doors open at 6.00pm for 6.30pm lecture, at Barr’s Hill…
Gabriele Munter: Expressionism, The Rise of The Blue Rider and beyondA lecture by Colin Pink Tuesday 8th October 2024 – Doors open at 6.00pm for 6.30pm lecture, at Barr’s Hill…
(from Alfred Herbert News Vol 30 No 5 Sept-Oct 1956) Historian and CovSoc Committee member, David Fry, has been studying past editions of the Alfred Herbert Newsletter. These newsletters are…
CovSoc member, Peter James, tells us about on of Coventry’s best known archaelogists. Peter writes… John Bailey Shelton was born on 19th March 1875 in Kirby Woodhouse a small hamlet…
The Council is set to approve a further length of cycle route in the city. The London Road North Scheme involves the installation of a new segregated cycle track on…
CovSoc Vice Chair, Peter Walters, reports back on a Coventry’s Society talk from retired farmer and CovSoc member, Richard Grindal. Peter writes….. In Richard Grindal’s early childhood, horses were still…
The city’s policing heritage has been safeguarded with the reopening of Coventry’s Police museum in its new location at the Council House. The Coventry Police Museum first opened in 1957…
A talk about Coventry Cathedral’s glass and the ‘Broken Angel’ project Long Itchington History Group Wednesday October 9th at 7.30 Long Itchington Community Centre, Stockton Road. CV47 9QP. Entrance £3.…
CovSoc member and historian, Peter James, tells us the history of one of Coventry’s most important families. Peter writes….. William (Billy) Rootes was born in 1894 and lived at Corner…
CovSoc founder member, Paul Maddocks, found this interesting feature about the use of traditional materials in non-traditional ways. Paul said “I like finding out about new interesting students projects, especially…
Sixty years ago, there was a plan for a revolutionary monorail system around Coventry City Centre. It was never built, but shows some striking similarities to the Very Light Rail…