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The Archives was set up in 2008 during the refurbishment of Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, and was designed by Demco Interiors. [2] It was set up to combine the former Coventry Archives and Local Studies Library. [3] In September 2018, the Coventry Archives underwent a name and brand change it was renamed after the old 'Coventry History Centre'.
Lady Godiva by John Collier, c. 1897, in the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry. Lady Godiva: Edmund Blair Leighton depicts her moment of decision (1892). Lady Godiva (/ ɡ ə ˈ d aɪ v ə /; died between 1066 and 1086), in Old English Godgifu, was a late Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who is relatively well documented as the wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, and a patron of various churches and ...
Foxe's Book of Martyrs records that, at the stake, he said 'Welcome the cross of Christ, welcome everlasting life'. [15] Robert Glover [16] was also educated at Cambridge University, and was a fellow of King's College. He was tried at Lichfield, and burnt in Coventry on 20 September 1555.
Before they were given the title of the Earl of Coventry on 26 April 1697 the family held the title of Baron of Allesborough. The Barony died out with the death of Gilbert Coventry in 1719, as he left no male issue. The Earldom still survives today. The key members of the Coventry family who created the archives are:
As a result, he collected a considerable number of historical items and opened his own museum in his shed in Little Park Street, later to be renamed as the Benedictine Museum. [1] These would later form the core of the archaeological collections of the new Herbert Art Gallery and Museum. Shelton wrote regular articles during the 1930s detailing ...
Museums in Coventry before the Herbert included the museum of the Coventry City Guild and the Benedictine Museum, opened by J. B. Shelton in the 1930s. However, Coventry City Council's collection of art treasures and museum pieces were housed in various buildings, and so the council acquired a half-acre site over a number of years costing £35,375.
COVENTRY — The town's schools are mourning the death on March 18 of school psychologist Louis F. Ruffolo, who was involved with many students with special education plans over the last two decades.
Reginald Leslie Hine photographed shortly before his death. Reginald Leslie Hine (25 September 1883 – 14 April 1949) FSA FRHS was a solicitor and historian whose writings centred on the market-town of Hitchin in Hertfordshire and its environs.