20th May 2020
This is how we have imagined a report to come from race meeting that took place at the Whit-Monday British Automobile Racing Club meeting at the Brooklands circuit on 24th May 1926. Amongst other exciting races, the record-breaking Lanchester 40 hp appeared […]
18th May 2020
If you’re still working from home or just fancy a change from your normal wallpaper or backdrop then why not download one of our background for your next Zoom call or Teams meeting? Just click on any of the images […]
15th May 2020
We’ve reached a milestone of our own with 500 followers on Twitter, and our 500th follower is the Confucius Institute at Coventry University. Their aim is to promote the understanding of Chinese culture and language and we have worked with them […]
6th May 2020
Waldo Sullivan Lanchester was born on this day the 6th May 1897, the son of James Sullivan and Edith Lanchester (Fred’s sister, and find out more about their extraordinary meeting here). His younger sister was the actress Elsa Lanchester – “The […]
1st May 2020
We’ve enjoyed taking part in the #Archive30 challenge and you can see all of our tweets at @lanchester_ia but here they are too: Day 1 of #Archive30 and the first topic is “Your archive”. Less than 3 years ago we […]
28th April 2020
Perhaps it feels like more than a month since the last Lanchester SketchClub but it’s time to get creative once again remotely and share your artwork online on Twitter using the #CovSketchbook or tag us @lanchester_ia or via our Facebook page. The idea is […]
18th April 2020
It’s Day 19 of the Archive30 challenge and today’s theme is “Archive mystery”. Although we have thousands of pages, photographs, blueprints and patents digitised and available to look at online, there are still plenty of mysteries held within the archive. […]
8th April 2020
It’s Day 9 of the Archive30 challenge and today’s theme is “Archive Secrets”. We’ve chosen this gem from the Fletcher series of correspondence and it really shows that the archive isn’t just about patents and inventions! It’s a handwritten letter written […]
3rd April 2020
While remarkable efforts are being made to covert exhibition centres into vast temporary hospitals, and sporting venues in Wales are also been repurposed in the face of the current coronavirus pandemic, during the First World War, Fred Lanchester proposed an idea […]
