7th February 2019
A local history focused history lesson for KS2 and KS3 students exploring Coventry’s experience during the Blitz. Students gain an understanding of how ordinary people in Coventry lived through the bombing campaign with interactive activities and lots of follow up activities.
Coventry Blitz – Lesson Plan for Website
LIA – Coventry Blitz workshop Powerpoint
Frederick Lanchester’s legacy is worldwide. Learn more about our archive, how the Indian Maharajas favoured the Lanchester cars over Rolls Royce & how the Peaky Blinders series took inspiration from the influential members of the Lanchester family. Coventry University’s Lanchester […]
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Today we celebrate the 153rd birthday of the engineer, scientist, inventor, author, poet and possibly the first ‘ingeniator’ – Fred Lanchester. On October 23rd 1868, in Lewisham Octavia and Henry welcomed Fred Lanchester into the world and alongside his brothers […]
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