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In 2012 Worcestershire Record Office and Worcestershire Historic Environment & Archaeology Service merged in preparation for moving into The Hive together. Victoria Bryant was appointed manager of the service, with Adrian Gregson and Lisa Snook (who we’ll hear from soon) heading up the Collections and User Services parts of the Archives. Three years ago she...

  From the 8th April until 11th June an exhibition celebrating the Unlocking the Severn Project will be on show in The Hive.  It is the culmination of a five-year project run by the Canal and Rivers Trust in partnership with Severn Rivers Trust, the Environment Agency and Natural England. Funding is being provided by...

We are pleased that our Worcestershire Archaeology Day returns on Saturday 20th November this year after our Covid enforced break. We are back in The Hive again on Level 0 with another exciting range of talks. Come and join us for our annual Archaeology Day, with talks from staff and guests about excavations, discoveries and...

Worcestershire Archive & Archaeology Service Customer Survey is now live! We’d like to hear what you think about our services. Have you visited us in The Hive, read posts on our social media, or sent an enquiry to our Archives or Historic Environment Record teams? Have you used our online resources, catalogues, databases and indexes?...

Over half term we are going around Worcestershire with a family Archaeology Quest, with the help of the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Come and have a go at being an archaeologist and see what you can discover! We’ve got several challenges for you have a go at – see what you can identify and work...

Over the years we have worked with many local groups, and are keen to encourage and support communities to undertake their own research and projects. Our community excavations, such as those at the Commandery and The Hive, involved lots of volunteers, some of whom have gone on to take part in locally run projects. To...

Many of our recent archaeological reports can be read online, as can reports by other units working in Worcestershire and for elsewhere in the country. Archaeological Data Service (ADS) is the main digital archive in this country, and you can access it yourself via their website. As we mention on our website, and when we...

Over the past year we have shared a number of stories about the past 50 years, since James Bond was appointed the first County Archaeologist. They’ve been very popular and people have asked for links for various ones, so we thought we’d bring them together with all the links to the different articles if you...

Back in the summers of 2005 and 2006 we ran community digs at The Commandery. As well as it being a great dig, uncovering remains of the 13th century chapel with 15th century extension and some fascinating finds, it was also memorable because around 90 volunteers took part, inspiring some to study archaeology, proving important...

Since late March The Hive has been closed and our staff have been mostly working from home & we’ve been contactable through our online enquiry system. Over the past few weeks we have been reviewing when we can reopen our public services (Original Archives, Self Service and Historic Environment Record desk). For the moment these...