We want to bring the Social and Industrial History collections up to date and we also want them to reflect the multicultural nature of Coventry today. We are therefore particularly trying to collect items dating from the 1970s onwards, items of popular culture and items representing the many different communities in Coventry.

Examples of the types of items we have collected recently include: a wedding sari; an African Caribbean cooking pot; a scrapbook belonging to Coventry’s first Asian magistrate; a Playstation console; 1980s legwarmers; a Sinclair pocket calculator from the 1970s; and a sitar.