Coventry Atlas

Mapping Coventry's past and present in one place | map overlays of Coventry | photographs historic and present | all data via @covdig

[Photo Miners @PhotoMiners]

So much interest has been shown in some of the Sadler photographs of the Godiva Cafe & Lower Precinct. We'll make some of these available to buy, working with @commongrndcov. Watch this space!

Below is the model for the Godiva Cafe & LP from @The_Herbert
https://t.co/7jmt1Tzhsj

[Photo Miners @PhotoMiners]

692 visitors for #richardsadler's Pioneering People exhibition this week. Thanks to everyone for the kind comments. If you haven't been, we're at the Old Grammar School, Hales St, Tues-Sun 1000-1600.

[Coventry Digital @covdig]

More from the @The_Herbert archive, this time the Architecture & Planning Department's images of post-war Coventry. Below, from 18th Jauary 1966, the Lower Precinct, complete with the Ling Neons, to the left. More when you log in!
https://t.co/WKDYqvQxoW

[Herbert Art Gallery & Museum @The_Herbert]

Our lockdown #achievements include @coventryatlas a stellar collaboration between our Archivist, Victoria Northridge, @Coventry2021 @covcampus @PhotoMiners Via Coventry Atlas users can track Coventry’s history through photos & drawings overlaid on city maps.

#ExploreYourArchive

[Layers of London @LayersofLondon]

We're excited to show you these maps soon!

[Coventry Digital @covdig]

Really pleased to see the Women of Stalingrad book on https://t.co/poDZBWh8VS thanks for @The_Herbert, presented in 1943 from the Women of Stalingrad to the Women of Coventry to thank them for their support in defence of Stalingrad.

Log in below👇

https://t.co/pEDborep3G

[Keith Lilley @profkdlilley]

As well as the new printed historical map of Coventry launched this evening, @coventryatlas has it as a digital layer with other historic maps of #Coventry such as this one, showing Court 2 where my Grandad lived as a young child with his widowed mother 👇

[Coventry Digital @covdig]

We're making the @covcampus Sketchbook project avaiable over the next few months, digitised by @Genusit.

When complete, over 75,000 artworks from Coventrians will tell the story of Coventry life in 2021.

Start looking here:

https://t.co/zju7PITzJL

[Centre for Arts, Memory & Communities @COVUNI_CAMC]

We at @covcampus are excited to be a part of #BeingHuman2021!

Events include a dynamic series of free events in Coventry for all ages, which will capture and investigate what it means to be from this diverse and vibrant city

📅11-20 November

👇More info
https://t.co/jwtTNOerm2

[Coventry Digital @covdig]

The wonderful Jenny Parkin has uploaded 300+ images from 1980s Coventry, including the CND rally in 1984, the construction of the City Farm in Hillfields and, below, the Koko Cafe at CRIS Community Arts. Log in below to check them out 👇

https://t.co/roEhrpDkA7

[Arts & Homelessness International @artshomelessint]

Book now for @artshomelessint's 2nd International Arts and Homelessness Summit.
11-13 October
@CentralHall1 Coventry
Part of Home and @Coventry2021
On-line and in person tickets available.
https://t.co/S5rAZQCT0F

[Coventry Digital @covdig]

More from the @cusu archive today. Plenty still to come as we work through it. Do get in touch if you have information we don't have - a name, place, event, date - and we can update our metadata:

Log in below or search CUSU on https://t.co/poDZBWh8VS:

https://t.co/8rF06oCub1

[Coventry Digital @covdig]

New project klaxon!!! Calling photographers!!!

Tiles of Hope is a Coventry University project to create a new mural in Priory Street. They need 1000 images of hope from across the city.

More info here: https://t.co/9zz26cpmnQ

[Mapping Women's Suffrage @mappingsuffrage]

So glad we were able to contribute our work to this great project!

[Coventry Atlas @coventryatlas]

New https://t.co/OW9AxKTq3c trail using the fantastic work of @mappingsuffrage

https://t.co/tUafeXC6Lj

Follow the route and check out the stories of Coventry's fantastic, strong and extraordinary suffragette women.

[Coventry Digital @covdig]

@profkdlilley @JFredT @coventryatlas Such as this map of central Coventry in 1851 in glorious high res - there's another 25-odd to explore too:

https://t.co/AkML7BwDtX

[Keith Lilley @profkdlilley]

@JFredT Absolutely, and increasingly available online eg for #Coventry thanks to @coventryatlas 👍👇 https://t.co/ZoDwQuih9n

[HistoricTownsTrust @hist_towns]

Our new historical #map of #Coventry with @HistCovTrust @medievalcov shows the locations of the city's early motor-works and other industry, check out @coventryatlas online and print map soon 👍👇

[HistoricTownsTrust @hist_towns]

@profkdlilley @The_Bard_Today @Dugdale1920 @The_Herbert @WHN_WM @TBAWAS @unibirmingham @MedSettRG And as part of @Coventry2021 launching today we've revised and updated the #Coventry atlas map in partnership with @medievalcov and accessible online @coventryatlas and to purchase soon 👍👇https://t.co/jFkQ3P8MQc

[Coventry Digital @covdig]

Chuffed that Coventry poet, playwright and photographer #chrisoconnell has contributed his series Turn Up For Life. More at https://t.co/THqkQ5xe5R and of course https://t.co/poDZBWh8VS 👇'Outside Argos'.