Coventry Poet Laureate Visits Twin City of Dresden
coventrysociety In September, Coventry Poet Laureate, Emilie Lauren Jones, took part in a poetry exchange visit to the city of Dresden. Dresden and Coventry were twinned in 1956, after both cities…
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The Broken Angel
The following article has been wrtitten by CovSoc member and Chair of the Friends of Coventry Cathedral, Martin Williams, and first appeared in the Friends newslettter. Martin writes….. The final…
Sergeant Bilko in Coventry!
CovSoc founder member and former Chair, Paul Maddocks, tells us the interesting tale of Coventry’s strangest museum. Paul writes…. Who would believe that an American comedian would have a special…
The Culture of Ukraine
The October meeting of the Arts Society Coventry is focused on the culture of Ukraine and is open to the public. “This lecture tells the Ukrainian story through the shared…
Closing Time by Chris Arnot
Following an interesting talk to the Coventry Society by Chris Arnot on 10th October, our Chair, Peter Walters, has written the following review of Chris’s book for the benefit of…
Coventry University Building to be named after Delia Derbyshire
The Coventry Observer has reported that Coventry University has named its new flagship Faculty of Arts and Humanities building after one of the city’s musical icons, Delia Derbyshire. Delia was…
The Future of the LTB
Social entrepreneur Alan Denyer has sent an update on what’s happening at the LTB Alan writes “Thought I’d share a few updates, as it’s now 12 months since we first…
The Art of Cutting Carbon
In April last year we reported on a new arts commission, called My Carbon Family, which was part of Coventry’s City of Culture programme. The Council allocated a budget of…
Appeal to Bring Hutton Drawings back to Coventry
The Friends of Coventry Cathedral have launched a funding appeal to bring cartoons of three panels of the famous Hutton Screen back to Coventry. The famous Hutton Screen is the…
Elvis and the Cathedral
The following interesting story was written by CovSoc member Martin Williams, the Chairman of the Friends of Coventry Cathedral and was published in his monthly e-newsletter. It is re-published here…