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Coventry Archives is a records archive and local history centre for the city of Coventry, England.It is housed in Herbert Art Gallery and Museum and is one of 4 institutions owned by the Culture Coventry Trust, the other three being Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, the Lunt Roman Fort and the Coventry Transport Museum.
Researchers in the Coventry Archives. Coventry Archives is housed in The Herbert. [21] Made up of what was the Coventry archives and Coventry local history, it houses the largest collection of records related to Coventry and its history. [22] including the Charter of Incorporation of the City of Coventry, Coventry City Council records. [23]
This is a list of archives in the United Kingdom. As of 2009 [update] there were 122 national, 654 local, 328 university, 1,224 special and 61 business archives. [ 1 ]
In 1914, Harris was a founding member of the Coventry Guild. [2] In 1916, during World War I, Harris was responsible for moving the Coventry Archives collection to the vault of Lloyds Bank, to prevent the damage or destruction of the documents if there were air raids. [9]
In 1897, aged 22 years, Shelton moved to Coventry, where he found lodgings in Thomas Street and began work as a drayman for the London and North Western Railway. He attended and was Sunday School teacher at the Wesleyan Chapel in Warwick Lane, now Methodist Central Hall, [ 5 ] where he met Catherine Ashton at the Young People's Bible Class.
The Modern Records Centre (MRC) is the specialist archive service of the University of Warwick in Coventry, England, located adjacent to the Central Campus Library. It was established in October 1973 and holds the world's largest archive collection on British industrial relations, as well as archives relating to many other aspects of British ...
Pages in category "History of Coventry" ... County of the City of Coventry; Coventry Archives; Coventry Blitz; Coventry Colliery; Coventry Four; Coventry Martyrs;
Two of Coventry's three spires; Holy Trinity Church on the left, and the spire of the old ruined cathedral (St. Michael's) on the right. Coventry, a city in the West Midlands, England, grew to become one of the most important cities in England during the Middle Ages due to its booming cloth and textiles trade.