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  Picture a tiny white glass bead decorated with four thin blue stripes.  Now shrink it. February’s star find is a miniscule Roman bead – 2.7mm across to be precise. It is so small that we’ve had to ask our in house digitisation team to take a photo of it, and even they exclaimed “there’s...

  Two workshops have recently been hosted by Worcestershire Archive & Archaeology Service to bring together the prehistoric, Roman, and medieval ceramic research groups to discuss the creation of universal terminologies and study approaches. At present each group has their own terms for pottery forms (shape) and there are many geographically specific and overlapping reference...

In 2018, the Worcestershire World War 100 project is looking to bring forgotten and half remembered stories of how the First World War affected the lives of the people of Worcestershire.   Since the start of the project, we have invited members of the public to share their family stories and memorabilia, which we will...

  Saturday 17th February is 1 Day Without Us – a national event to celebrate migration, migrants and the contribution they make to society. Migration is the source of much discussion in the UK at present and, for some, invokes strong opinions. It is sometimes portrayed as a new phenomenon with a clear division between...

  Looking for some tips on the art of romance this Valentine’s Day? It might be worth delving into the medieval best seller and guide to courtly love ‘Le Roman de la Rose’ – The Story of the Rose. Written in rhyming couplets in medieval French it tells the story of a young man’s attempts...

  This is the second in a series of blog posts celebrating the life and work of timber-frame building specialists FWB ‘Freddie’ and Mary Charles.   In this blog article we look at one of the most well-known and significant buildings that Freddie Charles worked on – the Great Barn of Bredon.   Bredon Barn...

We often see a name that sounds unusual and wonder what it means. One of our neighbours in the Butts is The Paul Pry and we have found that this name dates back nearly 200 years. The name Paul Pry derives from the play of the same name, which was written by John Poole and...

Having the right to vote is something we often take as read. But this was not always the case.  One significant step on the road to extending the right to vote took place one hundred years ago when the Representation of the People Act 1918 gave women over 30 and men over 21 the right...

This year we will celebrate the centenary of ‘The Representation of the People Act’ of February 1918. This Act extended the right to vote in Parliament to all men over the age of 21 and women over the age of 30, dramatically altering the face of British democracy. This act of Parliament also allowed service...

  What’s been happening since the Soudley Camp excavation took place in October? The Foresters’ Forest Project is a five year Heritage Lottery Fund programme exploring and protecting the Forest of Dean’s heritage, but what does it actually involve? Since October we have been working with local volunteers to begin the huge task of recording...