The Intriguing Story of Kirby House
coventrysociety Fifty years ago, Kirby House in Little Park Street Coventry was threatened with demolition. The campaign group that sought to save it became the Coventry Society, enjoying its half centenary…
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Recent Discoveries at the Charterhouse
Archaeologists working on the £8m restoration of The Charterhouse have uncovered rare 14th century remains that shed new light on life in historic Coventry. The Grade I listed former Carthusian…
Creating a Different Vision for Coventry
Post the coronavirus crisis we will all wish for ‘normality’, a return to the reassurance of the way things have been. But though we might want a return to the…
The Quakers in Coventry
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,…
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…