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Coventry’s annual Peace Festival happens in November promoting the city’s ongoing work of peace, tolerance and friendship. The city is well known around the world as a welcoming place and also as the city of peace and reconciliation. Booking for events is not required unless stated on the event listing. Coventry Multifaith Annual Peace Walk… Read more: Coventry Peace Festival 2025

Coventry Society held its fifth annual Heritage Conference in October. The City Heritage: Future Strategies conference, held at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum on 18 October 2025, brought together seventy people including heritage leaders, civic representatives, and community organisations to discuss ongoing projects and future plans for Coventry’s historic and cultural landscape. Opening RemarksMarguerite… Read more: CovSoc Heritage Conference 2025

In February 2024 we reported on a council experimental programme to create School Streets. The Council has now decided to make the scheme permanent and extend it to three new sites next year.   Launched in September 2024 around Ravensdale, Southfields, Stanton Bridge, and Cardinal Wiseman schools, the scheme aims to reduce traffic volumes and… Read more: School Streets Programme to be Extended

Plans have been announced to build a huge cardboard model that will reflect the old Cathedral to mark 85 years since the blitz. Taking its cue from the cathedral ruins, organisers said the art installation would be constructed from thousands of pieces of cardboard. The installation, designed by Olivier Grossetête, will form a temporary landmark,… Read more: Cardboard Structure to Commemorate Blitz

CovSoc founder member, Paul Maddocks, reminds us of the previous location of Volgograd Place and its failed vision. Paul writes…. A modern landscape that looks like moon craters or even volcanoes gushing fountains of water, this was a new modern way of doing a landscape scheme underneath the Ring Road near to Swanswell Pool in… Read more: Moon Craters in Coventry!

Historian and CovSoc Committee member, David Fry, has been studying past editions of the Alfred Herbert Newsletter. These Newsletters are much more than just a works magazine and some articles give an invaluable insight into the thinking in the city at the time they were written. The article below is extracted from a 1957 edition,… Read more: Coventry in 1955– Still Change, Change, Change…

The current arrangement of local government in Warwickshire is set to change over the next three years. At present there is a two-tier system of government, with Warwickshire County Council and five district councils (North Warwickshire, Nuneaton and Bedworth, Rugby, Warwick and Stratford). The county council runs education, social services, strategic transport planning, road maintenance,… Read more: Local Government Reorganisation in Warwickshire

Historian and CovSoc member, Peter James, tells us about the history of the Dunlop company in the city, which is still very active, although under a different name and ownership. Peter writes…… Dunlop Founder Although Robert William Thompson patented the pneumatic tyre in 1845 it was another Scotsman John Boyd Dunlop who produced one that… Read more: Dunlop Aviation

Discover the life and legacy of Alexander Craig (1872–1935), a pioneering British engineer whose work with Humber, Maudslay, and Standard Motor Company helped shape Coventry’s early automotive industry.

Following our recent visit to St. John the Devine Church, we thought it might be interesting to research the history and use of No Fines Concrete in Coventry and elsewhere. No-fines concrete is a form of lightweight concrete made without fine aggregates (such as sand), using only coarse aggregates, cement, and water. The result is… Read more: No Fines Concrete – Then and Now!