Shakespeare comes back to Coventry
coventrysociety 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,…
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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…
Topping Out at Copsewood
It was a moment to say “job well done” when Morris Homes invited several of us to share in the ceremony to top-out the historic Copsewood Grange at Stoke. Chairman…
Civic Voice supports Coventry Society campaign to save the Coventry Cross
Civic Voice supports Coventry Society campaign to save the Coventry Cross situated in Hill Top Conservation Area Call comes ahead of council decision on 4th October Civic Voice – the…
St. Marks and the Feibusch Mural
Join us for a visit to the recently refurbished St. Mark’s Church, Bird Street, on Monday 8th October 2018. We meet at 7 p.m. at the Church. St. Mark’s is…
Does it have to be riding roughshod?
I have said it before and I’ll say it again. Bowing to the big boys without proper consideration for locals, whether they be retailers who have invested in a shop…