The Coventry Blitz Walking Tour

A walking tour describing the Coventry Blitz of 14 November 1940, when for eleven continuous hours German bombers decimated the city.

By Adam Wood

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Saturday, April 26 · 10:30am - 12pm GMT+1

Location

Coventry Transport Museum

Hales Street Coventry CV1 1JD United Kingdom

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 7 days before event

About this event

Event lasts 1 hour 30 minutes

The intense bombing of Coventry on 14 November 1940, when more than 500 German bombers spent eleven hours bombarding the city in an operation codenamed Moonlight Sonata, was the first and most devastating air attack in history up to that point.

Two-thirds of the city was destroyed, including over 4,300 homes.

Join historian Adam Wood for a walking tour of sites associated with the Coventry Blitz as he relates the chain of events on that fateful night, and hear the personal stories of those who lost their homes, livelihoods - and sometimes their lives.

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Adam Wood

Adam Wood is an author, speaker and walking tour guide specialising in historic true crime and policing.

He is the author of a number of books, and for more than twenty years was Executive Editor of Ripperologist magazine, the leading publication dedicated to the serious study of the Whitechapel murders by 'Jack the Ripper' and their place in social history. From 2017 to 2021 he was Editor of the Journal of the Police History Society. In 2023 Adam launched a new magazine, Crime Through Time.

He has spoken at numerous true crime and police history podcasts and conferences, and reguarly acts as a consultant for television documentary, film and radio producers.