Posts from January 2018
- 31st January 2018
A medieval cooking pot – not the prettiest, but the source of fascinating information none the less. Our January Find of the Month gives us an insight into the lives and eating habits of ordinary medieval people, and how these changed over time. This particular pot fragment, or sherd, is unusually large and helpfully...
- 26th January 2018
Documents revealing the story of Shakespeare’s personal, business and family life have been listed on UNESCO International Memory of the World. The collection includes three documents that we hold as part of the Diocese of Worcester collection. Of the hundreds of thousands of documents in our care, William Shakespeare’s marriage bond is probably one...
- 25th January 2018
Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service (WAAS), in partnership with Worcester Diocesan Church House Trust (WDCHT) has been successful in its bid for £39,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to conserve, catalogue and share the Arthur Henry Whinfield Lantern Slide Collection. The remarkable photographic collection of this Worcestershire resident was donated by his widow,...
- 20th January 2018
Looking at starting or restarting family history the new year? In January we often get people coming to us asking how to begin. For some they are looking at starting or restarting now that Christmas is over, whilst others may have been inspired by conversations and reflection over Christmas. We can see this here in The Hive...
- 17th January 2018
This month we are taking a look at an exciting new project to catalogue and make available the records or practice archive of the Worcester firm of architects and timber-frame building specialists FWB and Mary Charles. F.W.B. “Freddie” Charles (1912-2002) was an architect and expert on the conservation and repair of timber-framed buildings. Freddie...
- 10th January 2018
Justin Hughes, our Community Project Office, is giving two talks this coming Friday and Saturday. He is speaking to Worcestershire Industrial Archaeology and Local History Society and to South Worcestershire Archaeology Group. Both are on the Lowesmoor dig we carried out in 2010, the site of the new Asda, although they are looking at two...
- 2nd January 2018
Have you seen our fabulous new guide to researching your ancestors? Developed by an expert Archive team, it’s a 70-page guide specifically designed to take you through the most commonly used collections for family history research. Each collection is clearly explained, demonstrating how useful they are for research. The guide covers: Census Probate records Church...