Coventry (new) Cathedral

Coventry is blessed with having three Cathedrals. The first was dissolved by Henry VIII and the second was destroyed during the war. The third is a huge modernist structure connected to the second and running over the site of the first. The cathedral is a very brave innovation drawing on modern architecture, glass and concrete …

Coventry Moot, The Rangers of Mordor Minor

Today I went to the Coventry Moot of The Rangers of Mordor Minor. This is of course a Tolkien thing. In the Tolkien Society local groups are called Smials after the dwellings of the Hobbits in Middle Earth. The Rangers of Mordor Minor are the Coventry Smial. We are called the Rangers of Mordor Minor …

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: Religion, Art and Science

On Tuesday I attended a lecture provided by The Arts Society Coventry. It was a pleasure because the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB) is one of my favourite topics. My degree was History and Victorian Studies where they featured as one of the many interesting topics of the period. The talk was provided by Dr Matt Wates …