The World’s Most Famous Strip-Girl, Part Two
A few months ago I blogged about the Coventry Godiva Pageants. Recently, while perusing the archives at the Hull History Centre, I came across this letter from 1979 written by none other than Hull University’s grumpy poet librarian, Philip Larkin to his subsequent biographer, Anthony Thwaite:
‘I used to watch the Pageant, with its annual Lady Godiva from the window of my father’s office in the Council House. Godiva was always a disappointment ...