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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'.
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.
The museum opened to the public on 1 November 2015, the 30th anniversary of Silvers's death, and was initially free to enter. [3] [1] Despite being Coventry's smallest museum, it has been described in The Boar (the University of Warwick student newspaper) as "one of Coventry’s major attractions".
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 ...
Coventry Archives; Cumbria Archive Service, Barrow, Carlisle, Kendal and Whitehaven; Derbyshire Record Office, Matlock; Devon Record Office, Exeter; Doncaster Archives; Dorset History Centre, Dorchester; Downside Abbey Archives, Somerset (includes archives of the English Benedictine Congregation) Dudley Archives and Local History; Durham County ...
The Coventry Music Museum marks a decade of paying homage to the city's musical legends.
A clock in Coventry shows puppets playing the story of Lady Godiva and how she rode across Coventry on a horse naked and peeping Tom who disobeyed the order stay behind closed doors. The Coventry Society recalls, "On the hour the bell strikes, the doors open and from the right hand door comes a figure of Lady Godiva riding a white horse. She ...
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 ...