The city will mark 85 years since the Coventry Blitz, in which the Cathedral Church of St Michael was destroyed on November ...

About 100 people gathered at a service in the ruins of Coventry Cathedral on Thursday ... The air raid on on the night of 14 November 1940 was the single most concentrated attack on a British ...

14 November 1940, otherwise known as the Coventry Blitz. Each individual memory has been saved and has been given to the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum for their archive. You can listen again to ...

By the end of 1940, 24,000 civilians had been killed in the Blitz and hundreds of thousands made homeless. In November, German bombers had obliterated Coventry city centre and there had been ...

On 14 November 1940 the German Luftwaffe dropped so many bombs on Coventry that three guarters of the city was destroyed. Such was the devastation, the Germans coined a term to describe it - "to ...

Largely rebuilt after the 1940 wartime bombing of the Coventry Blitz, Coventry was the birthplace of the British motor industry and is also known for the legend of Lady Godiva and Peeping Tom.